[Plate 54,] 
THE CAEMINE TEICHOPIL. 
(TRICHOPILIA COCCINEA.) 
iful Epiphyte, from Central America, hehnging to the Natural Order of 
^Ijccific Cljaracter* 
TUB CARMINE TRICHOPIL. 
Pseudobulbs oblongs 
Leaves 
narrow, compressed, furroM-ed, one-leaved, 
lanceolate, flat, somewhat cordate at the base, acuminate 
and recui'ved at the point. Peduncles one-flowered. 
Petals linear-lanceolate, acumhmte, twisted once. Lip 
4-lobed, closely rolled up at tlie base ; its divisions 
rounded, convex, plane. Hood 3-lobed with fringed 
nearly equal divisions. 
pseudobulbis oblongis 
TRICHOPILIA COCCINEA ; 
angustis compressis sulcatis monophjUis, foliis lanceola'tis 
planis basi subcordatis apice acuminatis recurvis, peduncu- 
lis unifloris, petalis lineari-lauceolatis acuminatis semel 
tortis, labello quadrilobo lobis rotundatis convexis planis 
basi arete convoluto, cuculli trilobi laciniis fimbriatis 
subsequalibus. 
Trichopilia coccinea : 
'<^W%CZ 
alias Trichopilia marginata: Card. Mag. of Bot,^ July ICol, %Dith a figure. 
»THis beautiful species of TricLopil was found iu Central America by Mr 
dra^dngs and living plants were sent to Endand in 1849. under 
We cannot therefore subscribe to Mr. Henfre/s alteration of tlie name 
universally 
justice to the zealous and ill-requited traveller who found it, or in the interest of science which 
suffers seriously in public estimation by the needless changes in names made by writers on Natural 
History subjects. 
The usual colour of the flower is a deep rich carmine, with a narrow edge of wliite • but it 
appears from the figure above referred to, that the rich colour is sometimes confined to the lining of 
the tube, the whole of the expanded hmb being white. The dra 
our 
May 
