1951 
* TRICHOCENTRUM fúscum. 
Brown-flowered Trichocentrum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ, $ VANDEA. 
TRICHOCENTRUM. Pippig Nova Gen. $ Sp. PI. 2. 1. Peri- 
anthium patens, liberum, »quale. Labellum sessile, cum basi columne conna- 
tum, calcaratum, planum, bilobum, basi lamellosum. Columna nana, semiteres, 
crassa, utrinque alata. Anthera bilocularis, mutica. Pollinia 2, complicata ; 
caudiculá cuneatà; glanduld minutà. Herb» epiphyte Americane acaules ; 
foliis planis (aut nullis?); floribus radicalibus. Genus ZEceocladi proximum, 
labello cum columnz continuo et subconnato, necnon columnà naná utrinque 
alatà, diversum. ; 
T. fuscum; foliis oblongis acutis obliquè tortis racemo longioribus, labello glabro 
bilobo basi bilamellato venis quibusdam callosis, alis columnæ serratis. 
Acoidium fuscum. Mihi in hortis. 
Imported from Mexico by Mr. Knight, of the King’s 
Road, from whom I received it in flower in July of last year. 
Shortly after it was sent me by Mr. Bateman. It is a stove 
epiphyte, and apparently by no means of difficult cultivation. 
When I first received it the genus had not been distin- 
guished, and I called it Acoidium fuscum, from ako, an ear, 
in allusion to the two ears of the column ; but Mr. Pöppig 
having subsequently figured and described a second species 
under the name of Trichocentrum pulchrum, the former must 
give way. i 
ur or a centre ; but the 
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md = /s ned by its author, Mr. 
applicability of the word is not apparent, nor is it explai 
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