TEICHOGLOTTIS. 589 



T. tigrimmi, Linden and Rchb. f. — A remarkably handsome 

 and desirable species, which produces its blossoms while in a 

 very small state. Its oblong foliage reminds one of a 

 miniature Oncidium Lanceanum, being more or less dotted 

 with deep red. The peduncles are produced from the base 

 of the leaves, and bear one or two flowers, of which the 

 ligulate-lanceolate sepals and petals are greenish yellow, 

 transversely barred and distinctly spotted with purplish 

 brown ; and the lip, which is very large in comparison to the 

 size of the flower — an inch and a half long, and nearly two 

 inches across the dilated apex — is broadly cuneiform, deeply 

 bilobed, pure white, with a yellow crest on the disk, and on 

 each side at the base a wedge-shaped blotch of purple. — 

 Ecuador. 

 FiQ.—IUust. Hort., 3 ser., t. 282. 



TEICHOGLOTTIS, Blume. 



{Tribe Vandas, subtribe Sarcanthese.) 



A small genus of epiphytal Orchids, with elongate leafy 

 stems, distichous leaves, and lateral peduncles bearing few 

 flowered short racemes, or sometimes solitary flowers. The 

 group is closely allied to Sarcochihis, from which it differs 

 mainly in not having a fleshy lip. The species, of which 

 about half a dozen are known, inhabit the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago. 



Culture. — The plants require the same treatment as A'erides, 

 Vanda, and other genera of the same ebulbous character. 



T. fasciata, Echb. f. — A rather showy species of free- 

 growing habit, with stoutish rooting stems attaining a 

 moderate height, furnished with distichous oblong obtuse api- 

 culate leaves, three inches long, sheathing the stem at the 

 base, and bearing lateral spikes of rather large leathery 

 flowers, suggestive of those of Phalccnopsis sumatrana, few 

 in number, but rather efiective from their distinctly banded 

 colouration. These flowers have trigonous peduncles and 

 pedicels, cuneate oblong acute sepals and petals, the lateral 

 sepals falcate, all white externally, pale greenish yellow inside 



