182 TRICHOPILIA. 



Magazine as T. Turialvre in the erroneous belief that it was the 

 species so named by Reichenbach that had been discovered by 

 Wendland in Central America. It is well distinguished among 

 Trichopilias by its light yellow flowers. 



T. hymenantha. 



Pseudo-bulbs none. Leaves in tufts of 4 — .5, linear, acuminate, 5 — 10 



inches loug, fleshy, sub-terete, channelled on the face. Peduncles slender, 



pendulous and racemed, 4 — 6 or more flowered ; bracts ovate, acute, as 



loug as the slender ovaries. Flowers nearly 2 inches in diameter ; 



sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, light 



straw-yellow, but sometimes white ; lip broadly oval, abruptly acuminate, 



concave at the base, fringed at the margin, white sparingly spotted with 



deep claret-red and covered with crystal dots. Column slender, terete, 



hooded at tlie apex, the hood with denticulate margin. 



Trichopilia hymenantha, Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. p. 15, t. 7 (1854) ; and II. p. 98. 

 £oL Mag. t. 5949. Morren in Belg. hort. 1874, p. 101. 



Very little is recorded of this Trichopilia. It was first discovered 

 by Schlim in the eastern Cordillera of New Granada near Ocaha^ 

 and was probably introduced by him. Reichenbach states that it 

 was in the collection of Consul Schiller at Hamburgh in 1853, 

 whence he obtained the materials for the description and figures 

 in the Xenia Orchidacea. We find no further mention of it till it 

 was figured and described in the Botanical Magazine of 1872, from a 

 plant that flowered in our houses in the autumn of the preceding year. 



TricJiopilia hymenantha is readily distinguished among its congeners 

 by the absence of pseudo -bulbs, by its long narrow fleshy leaves 

 and by its nearly flat labellum. Notwithstanding the little favour 

 accorded to it by cultivators, it is one of the most delicate of 

 Trichopilias in the texture and colour of its flowers. 



T. laxa. 



Pseudo-bulbs oval-oblong, much compressed, 2 — 3 inches long. Leaves 

 broadly lanceolate-oblong, acute, 8 — 12 inches long. Peduncles sub- 

 pendulous, pale green mottled with dull crimson, racemose, .5 — 9 flowered; 

 bracts spathaceous, broadly ovate, obtuse. Flowers about 3 inches in 

 diameter; sepals and petals similar, linear-lanceolate, pale rose with a 

 greenish median band ; lip white, obcordate, cuneate, obscurely three- 

 lobed, the basal lobes rolled over the column. Column triquetral, with 

 a fimbriate hood at the apex. 



Trichopilia laxa, Rchb. in Harab. Gartenz. 1858, p. 229. Id. Xen. Oich. II. 

 p. 100. Morren in Belg. hort. 1874, p. 101. Pilumna laxa, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 

 1844, misc. No. 74 ; and 1846, t. 57. 



