is now, too, in that of the Hamburgh Botanic Garden and of 
W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. The plant flowers very freely, giving 
two spikes from the same bulb, one after the other. 
Densely cxspitose. Moots terrestrial, dense, strong, without 
hairs. Pseudobulbs terete, furnished at the base with narrow 
chesnut-coloured sheaths, bordered with darker brown, very 
long, destitute of leaves, green, shining, two-leaved; the 
young shoot has several distichous leaves, those beneath the 
two terrestrial ones sheathing, with deciduous sessile triangular 
blades. Leaves with a cuneato-petiolar base oblong-acuminate, 
with five very prominent nerves on the under side, very shining 
on the upper side, pallid beneath, thickly membranaceous. 
Common flower-stalk porrect, sheaths of lower part wide, cucul- 
late, acute. Raceme generally with a dozen flowers, dense. 
Bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate (as in Mazillaria brac- 
tescens, Lindl.), nearly equalling the lower flowers, the upper 
ones much shorter. Ovaries with small blackish acute warts. 
Chin very well developed, obtuse-angled. Upper sepal ligulate- 
acuminate; lateral sepals broader, a little dimidiate. Tepals 
ligulate-acuminate, rather shorter. Lip very fleshy, cuneate 
oblong-ligulate in the middle, obtuse-angled on both sides; 
anterior lobe nearly spoon-shaped, excavated, with very thick 
margins; three very small and obscure keels in the disk 
between the lateral angular lobes; all the nerves behind it 
covered with very small warts; the nerves of anterior lobe 
covered with much stronger wartish elevations, now and then 
forming a nearly crisp membranaceous keel. Column trigonous. 
Anther-bed blunt, conical. Caudicle short, but well developed. 
I observed the perigone whitish yellowish, turning later in 
purplish. I believe Achille Richard saw the same, when he 
gave his name “‘roseans.” ‘The lip is yellowish, with brownish 
warts; I saw it also dark violet. Later J. de Warscewicz brought 
home a sketch representing the flowers yellow, painted with 
brown; he used to urge that the same Orchids had very different 
colours at various elevations. This may be so; but we know very 
well that the same Orchid plant brings very differently coloured 
flowers in various years—whether from the very different intensity 
of light or from the soil used, I do not know. No plants are more 
variable in this respect than some Stanhopeas. I never observed 
such a well-developed system of keels on the lip (fig. 4), nor such 
bright colours as observed by our artist. 
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