TAB. VII.
S T A N H O P E A * T I G R I ^ÌA
TIGER-LIKE STANIIOPEA.
T R I B U S : VANDEÍE.—LI N D L E Y ,
S T A N H O P E A. Hooltcr in Bot. Mag. 2948-9. Un dì. Gen. et Spe. Or eh. p. 157.
P e r j . \ n t i i h j m i n emb r a n a c e um, patentissimiim vel rcilexuiti. Sópala libera,
s i i h u n d u l a t a . Potala conronnia, uiigiistiora. Labolliini liboruin, anlicuin, ecalc
a r a t u m , carnosnni, iitrintjue corui i tmu ; dhiudio superiore (cpiohilio) convo.vo,
I n l e r i o r e (liypoebilio) exeavato. Columna longi.ssiiiia, petaloidoa-marginata, rariss
i n i è niutica. Anlhora 2-locularis. Polliiiia 2, olongata, lissa, oaudicnla ipiàm
g i a n d u i a biloba stipitata b r evioro.—l l evba ' Ame r i c a n a ' epiplivta' pseudo-bulbosa',
a p i c e foliiuu unicum plicaluni gerentes. Scapi radicales, vaginali, pauciilori,
| ) e m h i l i . Flores m a x imi , speciosissimi , o d o r a l i , m a g i s m i u ù s v e maculati.
STANIIOPEA tigrina; Ibliis lato-lanceolatis sub-unclulatis scapis 2-4-Hons longioribus; sep
a r j g u s t i o r i b u s , ov.ito-lanceolatis acutis; iabello medio constricto, hypocliilio inflato, subrotundo, in froiitc
u t r i n q u e comuto, cornubus lalcatis compressis incurvis acutis epichilio obovat o intense tvipartito longiovibus ;
c o l u m n i i membranaeeo-marginata.
Habitat ill Mexico, propc urbem Xalupam. HENCHMAN.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
PsEUD0-J3UIBS orafc, dcepfi/ fiivroiccd, xomeivhat <juodi'aiiynla)\ on inch and a huff lony.
each terminated bij a soli tan/ broadly'Innceohttc, shininy, coriaceous, acute LEA I', noineu'liat wacrd
in the margin, and a foot in length by four inches in iridtli, united to the pmulo-bidh by a PETIOLE
ichich is only one-third the length of the leaf, and channelled throughout. SCAPE short, pendiiloii.",
entirely clothed with thin, sheathing, conrohite SCMES, ^-ijloa-ered. PUP UNCLES longer than the
.•<capc. FLO»-VHS very large and handsome, measuring up wards of seven inches ( when fully expanded)
from the tip of the upper sepal to the point of the Up. SEPALS ovate-lanceolate, four inches long,
straw-coloured, marhed with irregular longitudinal blotches, of the colour of ¡¡ort wine stains, which
approach, or run into, each other at the origin of the sepals. PHTALS narrower than the sepals,
rery much undulated, and marked at their base with transverse bands, of a darher colour than those
of the sepals. LIP very large and Jleshy, polished, spotted, three inches long, much iujlated. slightly
conve.v on its under side (where there is a low transrer.ie ridge), with its mary ins turned slight Iy
inwards on the upper side, and widely separated from each other: the interior of the lip is richly
marhed with various colours, and is covered in front xcith many rows of tubercles, which terminate
in two rouyh callosities at the base of a pair of compressed falcate, sharp-pointed Jlonys, which
hend inwards, and reach beyond the smooth, obovate, tripartite body which is appended to the
lower division of the lip CoLUMS the length of the lip, arched, with a membranous, dilated
margin, sprinkled over with a variety of minute vinous spots.\
• So collpd hy Sir William lluokcr. ii
(• Tlic scpnmte view of tho lip »a«
jxiriion in jianiculnr) nuicli below tlic iinui
compliment lo llic i.rcscm Earl Swnliope, the distinguished President of üio Medico-Botanico] Societyinavnidably
lakcn after llie specimen iiaii shrivelled, and. therefore. reprceeiHa tliil organ (and its lower
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