Tas, 7281. 
TRICHOPILIA sancurnonenta. 
Native of Equador. 
Nat. Ord. OncuipEm. Tribe VanpEx. 
Genus Tricnorit1a, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 559.) 
TrRicHorPitta sanguinolenta; pseudobulbis ovoideis lavibus, folio petiolato — 
ovato- vy. lineari-oblongo subacuto, pedunculo folio breviore robusto 
1-floro vaginis 3 tubulosis elongatis instructo, sepalis petalisque lineari- 
oblongis subacutis flavo-olivaceis fusco-sanguineo maculatis, labello 
oblongo apice bifido lobis divaricatis, lateribus erectis crispatis albidis 
marginibus sanguineo transverse striolatis, disco carnoso albido basi 
2-calloso velutino, ima basi 2-auriculato, auriculis aureis erosis columnz 
lateribus adnatis, columna tereti, clinandrio dorso fimbriato. 
T. sanguinea, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. vol. ii. p. 106, t. 131. 
Helcia sanguinea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xxxi. (1845), misc. p. 17; m Pact. Fl. 
Gard. vol. ii. p. 97, fig. 182 ; Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 682. 
Trichopilia sanguinolenta, though long known in cultiva- 
tion, has never been re-found in a native state since its 
discovery by Hartweg in the Andes of Ecuador, half a 
century ago; and the only native specimen in existence is 
Hartweg’s, preserved in Lindley’s Herbarium (now at 
Kew). From it Lindley made the drawing published in 
the form of a wood-cut in Paxton’s Magazine, as Helcia 
sanguinolenta, which fairly represents the plant (consider- ~ 
ing that it was made from a dried specimen), though the 
sepals are shorter broader and more obovate than in either 
the original specimen or in that now figured. The genus 
Helcia was founded on an. erroneous view of the insertion 
of the lip, the basal lobes of which Lindley supposed to be 
free from the column, and not, as they really are, adnate to 
it. This was pointed out first by Reichenbach, in his Xenia 
Orchidacea, where he gives a very inaccurate representation 
of the plant, omitting the sheaths on the peduncle (which 
he describes as naked), and adding analyses that are little 
better than caricatures. The sepals and petals are repre- 
Sented as green, obtuse, with large rings of brown, and the 
lip as stained in the middle and sides with violet streaks 
Fesrvuarr Isr, 1898. 
