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THE SWEET TRICHOPIL. 
(TRICIIOPILIA SUA VIS.) 
A stove Epiphyte, from Central America, belonging to the Natural Order of Orchids. 
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THE SWEET TRICHOPIL.— Pseudo-bulbs thin, oblong, 
obcordate, oneAeaved. Leaves broad, oblong, wavy, 
leathery, nearly sessile. Peduncles about 2-flowered 
Petals linear, nearly straight. Lip very large, 3-lobed. 
wavy, crisp, closely rolled up at the base, suddenly inflated 
upwards. Hood of the column 3-lobed, with all the lobes 
fringed, the middle one being the narrowest. 
TRICHOPILIA SUA F7&— Pseudo-bulbis tenuibus oblongis 
obcordatis monophyllis, foliis latis oblongis undulatis 
coriaceis subsessilibus, pedunculis sub-bifloris, petalis 
linearibus rectiusculis, labello maximo biiobo undulato 
crispo basi arete convoluto sursum abrupte ventricoso 
cuculli trilobi laciniis omnibus fimbriatis intermedia 
angustiore. 
Trichopilia suavis : Supra p. 44, no. 70. 
^mong the Vandeous Orchids, that is to say among the Orchids having waxy pollen-masses on 
a Well-defined gland, and usually with a caudicle in addition, stands conspicuous, a group which 
we ^ ave elsewhere named Biiassids, comprehending the genera Oneidium, Odontoglossum, Brassia, 
Cymbidium, and many more. (See Vegetable Kingdom, p. 181.) 
It is among these genera that the genus Trichopil is stationed, and well defined by its four pollen- 
passes at the end of a long wedge-shaped caudicle, its convolute free lip, and the remarkable hood 
column, divided, in the, siwies hitherto seen, into three unec 
hypocliil, and a fringed 
llelcia, which is 
It is not improbable that many more Trichopils lurk in the forests of Central America than we 
have any actual knowledge of. To the Cork-screw Trichopil (Tr. tortilu), so named on account oi 
rc spiral form of the petals, a second species, from Mexico, was some years since added by Messrs. 
ichard and Galeotti, with narrow stem-like pseudo-bulbs, and large solitary yellow flowers, under 
the name of Tr. Galeottlana. 
flowered with Sir Philip Egerton. 
The plant now figured forms a third 
For the 
to fi. S. Holford, Esq., 
coloured plate of this, the Sweet Trichopil 
unens reached us 
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