‘ Tas. 5949. 
TRICHOPILIA HYMENANTHA. 
Natwe of New Grenada. 
Nat, Ord. Orcu1pex.—Tribe, VANDER. 
Genus Tricnopitia, Lindl. ; (Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann, vol. vi. p. 679), 
TricnopiL1a hymenantha ; rhizomate brevi; folio recurvo crasse coriaceo 
6-8-pollicari elongato-ensiformi acuminato, utrinque angustato basi 
tereti dorso convexo, facie canaliculato, racemo gracili brevi laxe 
6-8-flore, floribus albis, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis subtortis, labello 
sessili sanguineo-consperso late elliptico acuminato planiusculo, mar- 
ginibus erosis, basi utrinqgue 2-calloso, columna apice galeata, gale 
marginibus fimbriatis, 
Tricuopitta hymenantha, Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, vol. ii. p. 90; Xen. 
Orchid. p. 17, t. vii. f. L—11; Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 679. 
Nearly a dozen species of the genus Zrichopilia have been 
described by Reichenbach f. in Walper’s Repertorium, all of 
them natives of Equatorial America, and limited to the area 
comprised between Mexico, Caraccas, and Peru, where they in- 
habit humid forests at moderate elevations; the species vary 
a good deal in habit, and in the form of the leaf, but are 
otherwise pretty well characterized by the celebrated Orchido- 
logist above mentioned. 7. hymenantha is perhaps the 
most delicate in the colour and texture of the flowers of any 
species of the genus ; it was first described in 1854 from the 
celebrated collection of Consul Schiller at Hamburgh, and 
has since then been cultivated in several collections. The 
drawing here given is from a beautiful specimen communi- 
cated by Messrs. Veitch. 
Descr. Rootstock short. Leaves tufted, six to eight inches 
long, recurved, narrowly sword-shaped, one fourth to one 
third of an inch in diameter, gradually narrowed to the 
acuminate tip, terete at the base, thickly coriaceous, back 
FEBRUARY IsT, 1872. 
