4OO ORCHIDS. 



A. Trichopilia crispa. Costa Rica . War. Orch., 5. 



B. M., 4857, as 



coccinea. 



Bat. 2d Cen., 115. 

 Fl. des Ser., 1925. 



A larger plant than the last, but resembling it in 

 growth. The spike is pendulous, producing two or three 

 flowers, rich port wine color, sometimes edged with white ; 

 lip crisped, deeply lobed, rosy crimson inside, but white 

 outside. The same bulb produces two crops of flowers. 

 There are fine varieties. 



Trichopilia fragrans. SYN. of Pilumna fragrans. 



B. Trichopilia Galeottiana. Mexico. 



Flowers large, white or straw-color ; lip light pink, suf- 

 fused with yellow, and margined with white ; sepals and 

 petals not twisted. 



Trichopilia hymenantha. New Granada . Reich. Xen., 7 



B. M., 5949. 



This is the most delicate of the genus. The foliage is 

 long, narrow, recurved, the raceme six to eight-flowered ; 

 sepals and petals white ; lip broad white, speckled with 

 blood-red. 



C. Trichopilia laxa. Mexico . . . . B. R., 1846, 57. 

 A species with dark green foliage, mottled with brown- 

 ish spots, and half erect spikes of three to five flowers, 

 which are greenish white, tinged with purple, with creamy 

 white lip. 



