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T. fragrans by Reiclienbacli* and later by Andre to the T. nohilis 

 of that author which he rightly reduced to a variety of T. fragrans 

 on the occasion of its being figured in the Illustration horticole.] 

 But so many intermediate forms have appeared in recent importations 

 that the marks of distinction between T. fragrans and the variety 

 nohilis observable in the earliest introduced plants have practically 

 vanished. The T. Lehmanni of Kegel was gathered by Mr. Lehmann 

 on the western Cordillera of Colombia ; no definite specific character 

 is discoverable in the figure in the Gartenflora by which it may be 

 separated from T. fragrans. 



The date of the first introduction of Trichopilia fragrans into 

 European gardens is uncertain. The plant figured as T. fragrans 

 in the Botanical Magazine was cultivated by Lady Dorothy Nevill 

 at Dangstein in 1857, and this is the earliest mention we find of 

 its being in cultivation in this country. A few years later it was 

 imported from New Granada in considerable quantities by Messrs. 

 Low and Co., M. Linden, and ourselves. 



T. Galeottiana. 



Pseudo-bulbs narrowly oblong, much compressed with acute edges, 



3| — 5 inches long. Leaves elliptic-oblong, sub-acuminate, 5—7 or more 



inches long, leathery, dark green. Peduncles procumbent, as long as 



the pseudo-bulbs, 1 — 2 flowered. Sepals and petals similar, narrowly 



lanceolate, apiculate, obscurely keeled behind, pale turmeric-yellow ; lip 



sub-orbicular, cuneate, adnate to the colunm at the base, then convolute 



over it, the blade four-lobed, light yellow with a darker yellow disk 



that is sometimes spotted with red. Column terete, greenish, denticulate 



at the apex. 



Trichopilia Galeottiana, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1845, p. 26. Rchb. Xen. 

 Orch. II. p. 103. Id. in Gard. Chron. 1865, p. 770. Morren in Belg. hort. 1874, 

 p. ^&. T. picta, Lemaire in Illus. hod. 1859, t. 225. T. Turialvie, Batem. in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5550 (not of Rchb.). 



Discovered some time prior to 1845 by Galeotti, an Italian 



botanical explorer, near Teotaleingo in Mexico growing on. oaks at an 



elevacion of 3^000 feet. It was introduced into European gardens 



by M. Ambroise Yerschaffelt, of Ghent, in 1859 through his collector 



Ghiesbreght who gathered it in the district of Chiapu. A few years 



later it became generally distributed among the orchid collections 



of this country, and was described by Mr. Bateman in the Botanical 



• W.ilp. Ann. VI. p. 6»0. 

 t Vol. XIX. (1872), p. 96. 



