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TRICHOPILIA TORTILIS. 
~ TWISTED TRICHOPILIA. 
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ENDOGENA OR * MONOCOTYLEDONE: 
Natural division 
te which ‘*: LAD cate 
this plant belongs, 
NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACES,. 
GYNANDROSA, Ss a / Artificial | $e 
or to which it ener 
LINDLEY. this Plant belongs. i eance 
No. 122. 
GENUS. ee LINDLEY. ab meuate seal flo aggotsia 
et interiora equalia, linearia, crispa. LasELLUM magnu colu 
nz parallelum, siiadiea lobo intermedio subbilobo siasstddenaibe ert laa: 
ilocularis, compr 
caudicule tenui Sensate adhzrentia, pasidela minima. Enpiicwer: Gene 
ntarum 
SPECIES. Paledrnes Tortitis. Linprey. Hersa terrestris, pseudo- 
bulbis camnosis, on maculatis aie ree foliis coriaceis planis vel 
leviter ribus axillaribus 
CuaRacTER OF THE GENUS, CieRerase PERIGON spreading, 
the outer and inner divisions equal, linear, crisped. LaBetivum large, 
convolute, parallel to the column, three-lobed, the intermediate division 
nearly two-cleft and flattish, naked inside. CoLuMn cylindrical, club- 
shaped, the receptacle of the anther hood-shaped, three-lobed, fringed 
with hairs. ANTHER one-celled, compressed, convex in front. Po1- 
LEN MASSES two, furrowed at the back, adhering to a slender wedge- 
shaped caudicula, with a very small gland. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, TRICHOPILIA TORTILIS. PsEUDO- 
BULBs oblong, furrowed, compressed, covered with brown sheaths, 
marked with dark spots, and sometimes nearly as long as the leaves. 
Leaves solitary, oblong, coriaceous, sharp, flat or slightly folded. 
Fiowers large, axillary, solitary, and sessile. Ovurer and INNER 
DIVISIONS of the Pericon equal, linear lanceolate, very spreading, 
pirally twisted, crisped on the margin where they are of a dingy 
yellow, brick-coloured in the centre. LaBELtuM nearly as long as 
the divisions of the perigon, about two inches, white with unequal red 
spots inside, rolled round the column in the lower part, the limbs very 
unequally divided into three broad lobes, of which the middle one is 
very large and slightly cleft. CoLumn continuous with the ovarium, 
cylindrical, club-shaped, white, the receptacle of the anther extended 
above it in the shape of a hood, divided into three ascending falcate 
lobes, which are fringed on the edges. ANTHERS compressed, with a 
