TRICHOPILIA. 1 79 



One of the handsomest of the genus and occasionally confused 

 with TrichopiUa marginata, from which it differs in its longer, 

 narrower and more compressed pseudo-bulbs; in its longer and 

 narrower leaves; in its twisted sepals and petals that are differently 

 coloured; and in its narrower and curved funnel-shaped lip, the 

 front lobes of which are not depressed. It was discovered in Central 

 America by Warscewicz in 1849 and introduced by him into 

 European gardens shortly afterwards. The variety which differs from 

 the type only in the characters described above was first cultivated 

 by Mr. Eucker, of West Hill, Wandsworth ; it appears to be more 

 rare than the typical form. 



TrichopiUa coccinea, Lindl. ; T. crispa, Liudl. ; T. gloxinueflora, 

 Klotzsch ; T. marginata, Henfrey ; and T. lepida, Veitch, represent 

 a series of forms in which more definite characters are AV^anting to 

 dififerentiate them specifically. In their vegetation there is a greater 

 divergence than in the structure of their flowers, especially in T. coccinea 

 and T. marginata, as pointed out above ; for garden use therefore these 

 may be conveniently retained as distinct. Adopting Lindley's suggestion,* 

 we have reduced T. crispa to a variety of T. coccinea, and following 

 Eeichenbach we have made T. gloxiniceflora a synonym of the former, f 

 T. lepida is manifestly a variety of T. marginata with which Warner's 

 T. crispa marginata is synonymous. It only remains to be noted that 

 all these forms have a common origin and have been imported mixed 

 together. 



T. fragrans. 



Pseudo-bulbs oblong, much compressed with acute edges, 3 — 5 inches 

 long. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 7 — 10 inches long, 

 almost sessile on the apex of the pseudo-bulbs. Peduncles erect or 

 sub-erect, 2 — 4 flowered ; pedicels (including ovary) 2 — 3 inches long ; 

 bracts ovate-oblong, sub-acute, sheathing. Flowers very fragrant, pure 

 white with a circular yellow spot near the base of the lip, the sepals 

 and petals sometimes with a slight tinge of green ; sepals and petals 

 nearly uniform, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 — 2| inches long Avith 

 undulated margins ; lip clawed, the claw adnate to the base of the 

 column and then convolute over it ; the blade large, expanded, ])roadly 

 oblong, obscurely four-lobcd. Cohnun terete with two rounded entire 

 wings in front and with a fimbriated hood at the apex. 



* Card. Chron. 1857, p. 342. 



t Xen. Orch. II. p. 102. The late Professor Morren, of Liuge, adopted this view in his 

 synopsis of TrichopiUa published in the Bclgique horticole of 1874, but unfortunately mixed up 

 T. marginata with T. coccinea, 



