Tab. 7380. 

 TRICHOCENTRUM tigeinum. 

 Native of Central America. 



Nat. Ord. Okchide.e. — Tribe Vandeju. 

 Genus Tbichocentrum, Poepp.; {Benth. & Rook.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 559.) 



Trichocentrttm, tigrinum ; foliis sessilibns oblongis obtnsis luride viridibus 

 rubro maculatis, pediinculis flexuosis 1-2-floris, bracteia ovatis acutis 

 roseis, sepalis lateralibus linearibus obtusis dorsalique oblongo subacutis 

 aureis rubro punctatis, petalis sepalis lateralibus consimilibus et con- 

 coloribus, labello sepalis multo majore cuneato-obovato retuso lateribus 

 recurvis albo lasin versus roseo stnato, disco basi 3-calloso, callis brevibus 

 aureis compressis acutis et pone callos dentibus 2 erectis instructo, 

 columna alba apice 2-auricuIata, auriculis palmatim fimbriatis, anthera 

 pubesceute. 



T. tigrinum, Lind. & BeicJib.f. in Gard. Chron. (1869) p. 892. E. Andre in 

 lllustr. Eortic. vol. xxiv. (1877) p. 93, t. 282. Warner Orchid. Album, t. 

 484. Lindenia, vol. i. p. 53, t. 24. William's Orchid Growers' Man. Ed. 6, 

 p. 589. 



According to a statement in Warner's Orchid Album, 

 T. tigrinum is a native of Central America, where it was 

 discovered by Mr. Richard Pfau, when collecting for M. 

 Linden, who received it in 1869. It is well figured in the 

 works cited ; in one of which {Lindenia) a slight variety 

 with more spots on the sepals and petals is called var. 

 splendens. The genus contains about twenty-four described 

 species, all natives of tropical America, of which two have 

 been figured in this work, namely T. fuscum, LindL, t. 

 3969 ; and T. albo-purpureum, Reichb. f., t. 5688. 



The plant figured was obtained from Messrs. F. Sander 

 and Co. of St. Albans, in 1893, and flowered in a warm 

 house of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May of the fol- 

 lowing year. 



Descr. Stemless. Leaves sessile, two and a half to 

 three and a half inches long, oblong, obtuse, very coria- 

 ceous, obscurely keeled, dull green speckled with red, the 

 younger pale green flushed with red beneath. Peduncles 



October 1st, 1894. 



