TRICHOSMA. 



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bulbs are oblong or ligulato, compressed, two to four inches 

 long, monophyllous, the leaf being oblong acute coriaceous, and 

 the peduncles solitary and single-flowered. The drooping 

 flowers are large and attractive, the sepals and petals narrow 

 lanceolate, spirally twisted, yellowish green with lurid 

 brownish purple blotches along the middle part, and the lip 

 white outside, yellowish white or white within, spotted thickly 

 with rose colour and blotched with yellow about the throat, the 

 base closely rolled in, the front part spreading out and three- 

 lobed, the rounded lateral lobes meeting as usual over the 

 throat, the front flattened-out lobe two-cleft. It produces its 

 flowers freely at various times of the year, and lasts two or 

 three weeks in beauty. There are different varieties of this 

 plant, one with much brighter-coloured flowers, and one with 

 white flowers — the var. candiduin, Linden and Rchb. /., 

 imported from Chiapas by M. Linden. — Mexico. 



'FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3739 ; Bot. Reg., t. 18G3 : Maund, Botanist, iii. 1. 122 ; 

 Knowles and We'stc, Floral Cab., t. 101. 



TeICHOSMA, Lindley. 

 {Tribe Epidendrese, subtribe Cazlogynefe.) 



A small Indian genus consisting of a single epiphytical 

 species, with the habit of Ceelogyne, having clustered two- 

 leaved stems, subplicate somewhat fleshy leaves, and terminal 

 racemes of largish flowers, of which the sepals and petals 

 are spreading, and an articulated broadly three-lobed lip. 



Culture. — This plant should be grown in a pot with rough 

 fibrous peat and good drainage ; when in active growth it 

 must be kept moderately moist, and it must never be allowed 

 to get dry, as it has no thick fleshy pseudobulbs to support it. 



T. SUavis, Lindley. — A very distinct and scarce plant, 

 having thin tufted terete stems eight or ten inches high, 

 furnished with two broadly lanceolate obsoletely three-nerved, 

 leaves, and bearing short terminal racemes of fragrant 

 flowers ; the sepals and petals are lanceolate, creamy white, 

 and the lip has a three-lobed limb, the side lobes white 



