592 orchid-gkower's manual. 



1869. This plant has the peculiarity of producing two crops 

 of flowers from the same pseudobulbs every year ; as soon as 

 one lot goes off the other appears. — Central America. 



FiG.—Batem. Ind Cent. Orch. PL, 1. 115 ; Bot, Mag., t. 4857 (as coccineaj ; 

 Flore des Sevres, t. 1490 (as coccinea). 



T. Crispa marginata, R. Waryier. — A decided acquisition 

 to a very pretty genus. It is a finer plant than T. crispa, and 

 will prove extremely useful for exhibition purposes, as it flowers 

 during June and July. It resembles T. marginata in its 

 growth, but has shorter and more ovate compressed pseudo- 

 bulbs ; the leaves are broadly lanceolate, recurved at the 

 apex, dark green ; and the peduncles, which are produced 

 from the base of the bulbs, each bear two or three blossoms, 

 which are large and very showy. The sepals and petals are 

 linear lanceolate, crispy at the margin, of a pale purplish red, 

 white at the edges ; and the lip is white externally, funnel- 

 shaped, the two rounded lateral lobes meeting over the throat, 

 and the dilated central lobe deeply cleft at the apex, dull 

 crimson, with the throat of a darker and richer crimson, the 

 limb narrowly edged with white. This, which is from Mr. 

 Warner's collection, is, without doubt, the finest of all the 

 Trichopilias. — Central A merica. 



YiG.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, i. t. 5; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 43 ; Flo7-e des 

 Serres, tt. 1925-6. 



T. Graleottiana, A. Richard. — A distinct free-blooraing and 

 pretty plant, with tall ligulate ancipitous pale green pseudobulbs, 

 solitary cuneate oblong acute dark green leaves, and abundant 

 flowers on one-flowered peduncles. The sepals and petals 

 are cuneato-lanceolate acute, the petals somewhat the broader, 

 pale green, with a central bar of olive brown ; and the lip is 

 closely folded round the column, dilated and spreading in 

 front, three-lobed, the lateral lobes rounded, the front lobe 

 obreniform, the disk pale yellow with bars and lines of 

 crimson-purple, the margin passing to white. It blossoms in 

 August and September, and continues for a fortnight in good 

 condition. It requires cool treatment, and should be potted 

 in peat and sphagnum. — Mexico : Chiapas. 



¥lQ.—JUust. Eort, t. 225 (picta) ; Bot. Mag., t. 5550 and Batem. 2nd 

 Cent., t. 162 (both as turialbse.) 

 Syn. — T. picta, T. turialbce, Batem. non Echb. 



T. hymenantlia, Rchh.f. — A very distinct and curious plant, 

 producing thick fleshy elongate ensiform acuminate leaves, 



