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red or brown ; lip deep crimson with a white margin. Blooms 

 freely about June, bearing from one to two flowers on a spike, 

 and lasts from two to three weeks. 



*T. crispa. This is decidedly one of the best in the genus, 

 and a very free-flowering species. Flower spikes from two to 

 three flowered. Flowers from two to four inches across ; 

 sepals and petals white mottled in the centre with reddish- 

 crimson blofcches ; lip deep crimson sometimes slightly edged 

 with white. A plant of this in the collection of Charles Stead, 

 Esq., Baildon, near Leeds, bore three crops of flowers annually, 

 and has had more than one hundred flowers expanded at the 

 same time. 



*a. T. crispa marginata. This is a variety of the preceding 

 species, from which it differs in having much darker coloured 

 flowers, and a very distinct pure white margin to its deep 

 crimson lip. It is very rare, and very beautiful when well grown. 

 *T. suavis. "We have here an easily grown winter and 

 spring flowering Orchid of rare beauty. Pseudo-bulbs flat 

 glaucous, one leaved ; leaves oblong arid slightly glaucous. 

 Flowers from January to March, bearing three large blooms on 

 a drooping spike ; sepals and petals pure white, spotted with 

 bright rose ; lip also white, blotched with rosy pink. It flowers 

 very freely, lasting a fortnight in beauty. 



*a. T. suavis grandiflora. This is a selected garden variety 

 with more richly coloured flowers than those of the normal 

 form. 



*T, tortilis. Bulbs slender, one-leaved; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate. Flowers solitary or two together on a drooping 

 spike; sepals and petals pale yellow, blotched with brown 

 very much twisted ; lip pure white, heavily spotted with red. 

 This is a variable plant, some of its varieties bearing hand- 

 some and brightly coloured flowers. Blooms in June and 

 July, lasting two or three weeks in perfection. 



