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TEICHOriLIA. 



Trichopilia fragrans, Rchb. in Hamb. Gartenz. 1859, p. 229. Id. Xen. Orch. II. 

 p. 100. Jennings' Orch. t, 38. Sannders' Ref. Bot. II. t. 127. T. Backhouseana, 

 Echb. in Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 816. T. Lehraanni, Kegel's Gartenfl. 1888, 

 t. 1276. Piluiuna fragrans, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, misc. No. 74. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5035.* 



var.— nobilis. 



Pseudo-bulbs shorter and thicker ; leaves shorter and broader. Flowers 



a little larger with the sepals and petals always pure white, the blade 



of the lip a little broader with the yellow spot enlarged. 



T. fragrans nobilis, Illus. hort. 1872, t. 94. T. fragrans, Fl. Mag. N.s. t. 21. 

 T. Candida, Lindl. Orch. Lind. No. 640. Pilumna nobilis, Rchb. in Linnsea, XXII. 

 p. 843. Williams' Orch. Alb. III. t. 128. 



Trichopilia fragrans. 



Trichopilia fragrans was originally discovered by Hartweg about 

 the year 1841 near Popayan in southern Colombia, and a brief 

 description of the flower from his herbarium specimen was 

 published by Lindley in the Botanical Register of 1844. In the 

 meantime a Trichopilia had been detected on the Sierra Nevada 

 of Merida in western Venezuela by Linden who named it T. Candida, 

 a name which Lindley adopted in his enumeration of the orchids 

 discovered by Linden, but Linden's plant was afterwards referred to 



* Reichenbach in Xen. Orch. II. p. 100, refers this to his Trichopilia JFageneri. There 

 is, however, but little to distinguish it from T. fragrans, except the shorter and narrower 

 anterior lobes of the labellum and the smaller orange-yellow spot at its base. As T. fragrans 

 is widely dispersed over the Colombian Andes, T. Wageneri, as represented in the Botanical 

 Magazine, appears to be noihiug more than a geographical form of it. 



