84. THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Trichopilia—continued. 
and petals slightly twisted; lip sessile, nearly flat, with erose 
edges, speckled with deep sanguineous-purple towards the base 
and sides; racemes six to u hoe ods drooping. Summer. 
l. thick, fleshy, elongated-ensiform, acuminate, narrowed to the 
, the lower part representing a stem or pseudo-bulb. New 
Grenada, 1854. (B. M. 5949; R. X. O. i. 7.) 
T. Kienastiana (Kienast’s). fl. white, with a few yellow lines 
or spots on the disk of the lip ; sepals and petals linear-ligulate ; 
lateral lobes of lip median, obtuse-angled; anterior lobes 
porrected, wavy, emarginate; peduncle usually 
two-flowered. l. and pseudo-bulbs much lik 
those of T. suavis. Habitat unknown. 1883. 
T. lepida (oa fl. handsome, 4in. to din. in 
diameter; sepals and petals pale rosy-lilac, ir- 
regularly margined with white; lip prominent, 
fimbriated, in front deep purple-crimson with 
an irregular margin of white ; peduncles deflexed. 
Spring. l. oblong-ovate, acute, leathery. Pseudo- 
bulbs oblong, obtuse, ancipitous. Costa Rica, 
1873. (F. M, ser. ii. 98; W. O. A. v. 197.) 
T. marginata (margined).* /l. 4in. to Sin. across ; 
sepals and peta!s brownish-red, with greenish- 
yellow margins, narrow, once twisted; lip white 
outside, the mouth three-lobed, the lateral lobes 
roundish and the central ones emarginate, wavy, 
reddish-purple, sometimes edged with white, 
becoming deep crimson in the throat, or with 
the limb white and the throat only deep crim- 
son; peduncles drooping, one-flowered. May 
and June. J. lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 
recurved at tip. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, oblong, 
furrowed, recurved at tip. Central America, 
1880. (G. M. B. iii. 185.) Syn. T. coccinea (B. M. 
4857; L. J. F. 184; L. & P. F.G. ii. 54). 
T. m, flaveola (yellowish). fl., sepals and petals 
greenish-yellow ; lip and column white. 1880. 
T. mutica (beardless). fl. dirty-white, slightly 
tinged with red ; sepals and petals linear, acute ; 
lip rallel with the column, cordate-ovate, 
cucullate at base; raceme few-flowered, weak. 
August. J. linear-lanceolate, convex at back. 
Said to be a native of Trinidad, 1821. Syn. 
Macradenia mutica. 
T. nobilis (noble).* fi. larger than those of T. 
JSragrans, sweet-scented; sepals and petals white, 
undulated; upper lobes of lip rounded and 
meeti over the throat, the front one pure 
snow-white, ljin. broad, having on each side of 
the throat an orange-coloured blotch, the two 
blotches meeting to form a central, eye-like spot ; 
scapes erect, four or five-flowered. l. broadly 
oblong, acute. Pseudo-bulbs elongated, oblong, 
compressed, clustered. Columbia. A beautiful 
species, perhaps a variety of 7. fragrans (under 
which name it is figured in F. M, ser. ii. 21, 
I. H. ser. iii. 94, and W. O. A. iii. 128). 
T. picta (painted). A synonym of T. Galeottiana. 
T. rostrata (beaked). fl., sepals and petals pale 
whitish-green, linear, acute, the petals twice 
twisted; lip white, with pale orange rays, 
flabellate, trifid towards the apex; peduncle 
two-flowered. J. broadly ligulate, acute. Pseudo- 
bulbs linear-lingulate, the basilar scales slightly 
dotted. New Grenada, 1872. ; 
T. enta (dark-bloody). . rather showy, 2sin. across ; 
sepals and petals yellowish-olive, marked with transverse bands 
or ocellate markings of brownish-crimson ; lip emarginate, re- 
curved, white, flabellately veined, the veins in the Tent half 
marked out by broken lines of crimson. J. undulated, petiolate, 
4in. to 6in. long. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, elongated. Ecuador, 1843. 
ae “eed sanguinolenta (I. H. ser. iii. 21; L. & P. F. G. 
ii. 
Rica, 1850. A fine 
an F. d. S. 761; L. J. F. 227; 
sepals and petals pure white ; lip white, 
T. s. alba (white). f., 
: with a yellow stain. May and June. 
marked in the throat 
asi 0. ) 
T. s. grandifiora (large-flowered). fl. more highly coloured 
-~ than in the type, e expanding better ; Rare abe y oe Ae white ; 
lip upwa! th ~ ms onein akie, ig Janga; zieh orimpon 
, the thr e l (as w i e 
io A ie or (as as the pseudo-bulbs) 
. . . 
Trichopilia—continued. 
T, tortilis (twisted). /l. drooping, large and attractive ; sepals 
and petals yellowish-green, with lurid brownish-purple blotches 
along the middle part, spirally twisted, narrow-lanceolate ; lip 
white outside, yellowish-white or white within, thickly spotted 
with rose-colour and blotched with yellow about the throat, the 
base closely rolled in, the front part spreading out and three- 
lobed ; peduncle one-fiowered. Z. oblong, acute. Pseudo-bulbs 
oblong or ligulate, compressed, 2in. to 4in. long. Mexico, 1836. 
An interesting species, 
See Fig. 97. (B. iii. 122; B. M. 3739; 
Fic. 97. FLOWER AND LEAF OF TRICHOPILIA TORTILIS. 
B. R. 1863.) There are several varieties of this species. 
— candidum — has white, 
flowers, 
T, Turialyæ (Turialva), of Bateman. A synonym of 7. Galeotti- 
and. 
TRICHOPTERIS. Included under Alsophila. 
TRICHOS. A term, used in Greek compounds, 
signifying hair-like or hairy; e.g., Trichocentron, Tricho- 
manes. 
TRICHOSACME (from thriz, trichos, a hair, and 
acme, & point; referring to the corolla’s hairy appendage). 
Orv. Asclepiadew, A monotypic genus. The species is 
a stove, climbing shrub, densely white-woolly on all parts 
except the corolla. For culture, see Stapelia. 
T. lanata (woolly). f. purple, mediocre or rather small, 
six to ten in umbelliform cymes; yx of five lanceolate 
segments; corolla with a short, rotate tube, the lobes emar- 
ginate, the teeth produced in a long, filiform A 
fo heap y rappe ae pyre riage pon 
a Po c or o obtuse or slig acute. 
Mexico, 1850. (F. d. S. 1123: L. € P. F.G i 16 
i One 
and another brighter -coloured, 
