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Trichocentrum fuscum. Brown-flow- 

 ered Trichocentrum. 



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Class and Order. 

 Gynandria Monandria. 



( Nat. Old. OrCHIDEjE.) 



Generic Character. 



Perianthium patens, liberum, aequale. Labellum sessile, 

 cum basi columnae connatum, planum, bilobum, basi lamel- 

 losum. Columna nana, semiteres, crassa, utrinque alata. 

 Anthera bilocularis, mutica. Pollinia 2, complicata ; cau- 

 dicula cuneata ; glandula minuta. — Herbae epiphytce Ameri- 

 cans acaules; foliis planis (aut nullis?), floribus radicali- 

 bus. Lindl. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Trichocentrum * fuscum ; foliis obiongis acutis oblique 

 tortis racemo longioribus, labello glabro bilobo basi 

 bilamellato venis" quibusdam callosis, alis columnae 

 serratis. Lindl. 



Trichocentrum fuscum. Lindl, Bot. Reg. t. 1951. 



Acoidium fuscum. Lindl. in Hort. 



A native of Mexico, and first introduced to our col- 

 lections, as it would appear, by Mr. Knight of the King's 

 Road, Chelsea. Our plant, here figured, flowered in the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, in September, 1841, and 

 we shortly afterwards received flowering specimens from 

 Mr. Moore of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden. 



Descr. 



* So named by Dr. Poppig from 0p| r^x°y B lui " - alul n * n f> a s V ur 

 in consequence oi the long and narrow Bpur of'the labellum. 



