ORCHID SPECIES 



TEICHOGLOTTIS COCHLBAEIS, Bchb.f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. xix. p. 142 ; Jour, of Hort. 1886, vol. xii. p. 194, 

 fig. 34 ; id. 1893, vol. xxvi. p. 233, fig. 47. 



A rare species, introduced in 1882 through Curtis, who met with it in 

 the Island of Sumatra. 



The flowers are white with purple bars inside and outside the sepals 

 and petals ; the lip is spoon-shaped, very thick with a few purple blotches. 



TEICHOPILIA GEATA, Bchb.f. 



Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 1338. 



Introduced from Peru in 1868. The flowers are sweetly scented as are 

 those of Trichopilia fragrans to which species grata is allied ; they are 

 yellowish-green with a white expanded lip, the free end being orange colour. 



TEICHOPILIA MAEGINATA, H&nf., var. LEPIDA. 

 Syns. T. coccinea, Warsc., var. lepida; T. lepida, Veitch. 

 Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. ix. p. 183 ; PI. Mag. n.s. t. 98. 



This variety appeared amongst an importation of the species from Costa 

 Eica in 1873. It is a very rare form with flowers larger than those of the 

 type, and the margin of the lip more crisped. 



VANDA BENSONI, Bat&m. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5611 ; Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 180, fig. ; PI. des Serres, torn. xxii. t. 2392 ; 

 Veitcha' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 89. 



This Vanda was sent to us by Colonel Benson, who discovered it in 

 Lower Burmah in 1866. 



It flowered shortly after its arrival at Chelsea in the summer of the 

 same year, and proved closely allied to Vanda Eoxburghii and V. concolor, 

 but the absence of all tessellation and the spotting and yellow colour of the 

 inside of the flowers are distinguishing features. 



VANDA C^EEULEA, Griff. 



Lindl. in. Paxt. PI. Gdn. vol. i. t. 36 ; PI. des Serres, 1853, vol. vi. t. 609 ; 1'Illus. 

 Hort. 1860, t. 246 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 90, fig. ; Orchid Album, vi. t. 282. 



First discovered by William Griffith, the Indian botanist and explorer, in 

 November 1837 on the Khasia Hills, in which locality it was later re- 

 discovered by Sir J. D. Hooker and Dr. Thomson, but was not introduced 

 to cultivation. 



Thomas Lobb sent home plants from the Khasia Hills to Exeter, where 

 one of them flowered for the first time in December 1850, and was 



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