Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

TAB. 6521.
STELIS BEüCKMüLLEEI.
Native of the Andes.
Nat. Ord. OECHIDE^:.•Tribe PLEUBOTHALLE-E.
Genus STELIS, Sicartz ; {Lindl. Gen. et &p. Orchid, p. 11.)
STELIS Brückmülleri ; c•spitosa, glaberrima, folio elliptice-lanceolato in petiolum
angustato apice 2-fido convexo medio profunde canaliculato, racemo solitario
filiforme folio duplo longiore erecto multifloro, floribus numerosis dissitis
undique spectantibus, bracteis infundibularibus ore valde obliquo infimis
parvis vacuis, perianthio |-poll. diam., sepalis Eequalibus late ovatis subacutis
basi connatis pallide purpureis intus longe sparse pilosis, petalis dolabriformibus,
labio parvo peltatim stipitato stipite geniculato, lamina ovato-oblonga obtusa
basi truncata medio longitudinaliter alata, columna apice utrinque late auriculata
auriculis patentibus obovato-rotundatis.
S. Brückmülleri, Reichb.f. in Sort. Veitch.
This singular little orchid resembles the green-flowered
Stelis oppioglossoides of Swartz, a West Indian plant,
figured in the Botanical Register (tab. 935), but has smaller
leaves and flowers, and the latter are of a purple colour
and hairy inside ; the bracts too are different, those of the
species here figured resembling funnel-shaped cups with
very oblique mouths. Like all the other species of the
genus, it is of botanical interest rather than horticultural.
The specimen here figured flowered in the Eoyal Gardens
in December of last year from plants presented by Messrs.
Veitch, of the Royal Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea, and was
named as above by Professor Reichenbach, but I do not
find it described anywhere. It is probably a native of the
Mexican Andes.
DESCR. Tufted. Leaves one and a half to two inches
long, exclusive of the petiole, which is as long, one-half
to two-thirds of an inch broad, elliptic-lanceolate, rather
narrower at the base than at the bifid tip, convex above
OCTOEEB 1ST, 1880.