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naiTowed also to the base, where they are terete and clothed 

 with close-fitting brown scales, the lower part representing a 

 stem or pseudobulb. The flowers are small, in six or eight- 

 flowered drooping racemes, on peduncles issuing from the 

 axils of the stem sheaths ; they are white, with the sepals and 

 petals lanceolate and slightly twisted, and the lip sessile, 

 broadly elliptic, nearly flat, with erose edges, speckled with 

 deep sanguineous purple towards the base and sides. It 

 flowers during the summer months. — New Grenada. 



'Pig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5949 ; Xenia Orch., i. t. 7. 



T. lepida, Hon., Veitch. — A very rare and handsome species, 

 somewhat resembling T. crispa in growth. The pseudobulbs 

 are oblong obtuse ancipitous, with solitary oblong ovate acute 

 leathery leaves, and deflexed peduncles bearing large hand- 

 some flowers, which ai'e from four to five inches in diameter, 

 with a prominent fimbriated lip. The sepals and petals are 

 linear lanceolate acute, pale rosy lilac, irregularly margined 

 with white ; and the lip, which is closely folded at the base, 

 is expanded quadrate-oblong in front, of a deep purple- 

 crimson with an irregular margin of white about a quarter 

 of an inch wide, the lateral lobes broad and rounded, 

 the central one deeply cleft into two rotundate undulated 

 segments. It flowers during the spring months. — Costa 

 Plica. 



'Fig.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 98; Orchid Album, v. t. 197. 



T. marginata, Henfreij. — A very pretty and distinct species, 

 with clustered oblong furrowed ancipitous pseudobulbs, bear- 

 ing above the solitary lanceolate shortly acuminate dark green 

 coriaceous leaves, recurved at the tip, and from their base the 

 drooping one-flowered peduncles. The flowers are large, four 

 to five inches in expanse, with a bold prominent lip, the 

 sepals and petals are narrow linear-lanceolate acuminate, once 

 twisted, brownish red with greenish yellow margins, and the lip 

 is trumpet-shaped, white on the outside, the mouth spreading, 

 three-lobed, the lateral lobes roundish and the central one 

 emarginate, wavy, of a reddish purple sometimes edged with 

 white, becoming deep crimson in the throat, or with the limb 

 white and the throat only deep crimson. The margin of the 

 anther-bed is very finely serrulate. It produces its blossoms 

 in May and June, lasting three weeks in beauty. Of this 

 plant there are many varieties. One called oliYacea, Rchb.f., 



