Refugium Botanicwn.] [ October, 1872. 
TAB, 108. 
Tribe VANDES. 
Genus STANHOPEA, Frost. 
S. praryceras, Lichb. f. Gardn. Chron, 1868, p. 7. Pseudobulbo 
conico monophyllo a vaginis increscentibus stipato, folio longe 
petiolato cuneato oblongo acuto, pedunculo crasso abbreviato 
bifloro plurivaginato, bracteis amplis latis, quam ovaria bene 
brevioribus, flore illi Stanhopee Haselowiane equal, sepalis 
oblongo-triangulis, tepalis late linearibus acutis, labelli hypo- 
chilio late cymbiformi, canali clauso, pectore obtusato producto 
transverso, a basi caput usque oblique tricarinato, carina media 
cum interna utrinque canalem efficiente, pectoris fovea pariete 
superiori dense papulosa, ungue epichilii brevi, lamella parvula 
superne, epichilio ovato acuto utrinque angulato, cornubus late 
semilunatis brevibus planis, columna longa, ante basin arcuata, 
ceterum recta, alis mediocribus ab apice ad medium, alulis 
triangulis erectis, glandula postice bicruri. 
“This is a very interesting novelty, though, as I well know, 
Stanhopeas are not in fashion in England. Its large flowers are 
like those of Stanhopea Haselowiana, to which the possessor very 
well compared it, yet it has not the same long narrow claw to 
the epichilium. It stands nearest Stanhopea grandiflora, Rchb. f. 
(Bucephalus, Lindl., Jenischiana, Kramer), but has a two-flowered 
inflorescence and very broad short and quite peculiar horns to 
the mesochilium. No doubt this species proves once more that 
it was not right to divide Stanhopeas according to their lax or 
dense inflorescences. ‘he flower is nankeen-coloured, spotted 
with purplish dots and circles of small poimts, while on each 
side of the hypochihum stands one large brownish purple 
spot. Stanhopea platyceras was introduced from New Grenada 
by Messrs. H. Low & Co., and has just flowered with J. Day, Esq.” 
These were my remarks made in the ‘ Gardener’s Chronicle.’ 
I have only to add that I got the same plant from Mr. Linden, 
who had obtained it from New Grenada, through Mr. Walls. It 
differed, however, in having the sepals only simply nankeen- 
coloured, without any dots or circles. The tepals were alike. 
The hypochilium was of a brown colour; the mesochilium and 
