IRICHOPILIA. 183 



This is one of the least interesting o£ the Trichopilias in a 

 horticultural sense on account of the absence of attractive colours 

 in its flowers. It was originally discovered by Hartweg at the 

 same time and in the same locality as Tnchopilia fragrans, viz., 

 near Popayan in southern Colombia about the year 1841. 



T. marginata. 



Pseudo-bulbs broadly oblong, 1| — 2 inches long. Leaves oblong, si:b- 



acute, 6 inches long, very leathery. Peduncles short, sheathed by 



imbricating bracts, 2 — 3 flowered. Flowers with a curved pedicel and 



ovary, 2 inches long ; sepals and petals linear lanceolate, acute, 



2| inches long, reddish crimson with white margins ; lip funnel-shaped, 



obscurely four-lobed, the front lobes deflexed, rose-carmine, darker and 



striated towards the base, white externally. Column white, the apical 



hood three-lobed and denticulate. 



Trichopilia marginata, Henfrey in Gard. Mag. July, 1851, with fig. Echb. Xen. 

 Orch. II. p. 102. T. coccinea, Hook, in £ot. Mag. t. 4857. Van Houtte's Fl. des 

 Serves, XIV. t. 1490. Warner's Sel. Orch. I. t. 6 (crispa marginata). De Puydt, 

 Les Orch. t. 43 (idem). 



var.— lepida. 



Flowers somewhat larger than the typical form ; the white margin of 



the sepals and petals broader and interrupted with rose-pink spots ; 



the margin of the lip similarly spotted and more crisped than in tlie 



commoner form. 



T. marginata lepida, supra. T. lepida, Veitcli ex Williams' Orch. Alb. V. t. 197. 

 Fl. Mag. n.s. t. 98. 



One of the handsomest species of the genus and one that has been 



most generally cultivated since its first introduction. It has been 



occasionally confused with Trichojoilia coccinea and its variety crispa 



from which it is fairly distinguishable by the characters pointed out 



under that species. It was discovered by Warscewicz in 1849 on 



the volcano of Chiriqui in Central America and introduced by him 



into European gardens shortly afterwards. The variety lepida 



appeared amongst an importation of the species by ourselves in 



1873; it is a very rare form. 



T. rostrata. 



Pseudo-bulbs narrowly oblong, much compressed, 4 — 6 inches long. 

 Leaves linear-oblong acute, as long as the pseudo-bulbs, conduplicate at 

 the base. Peduncles short, sub-erect, 2 — 3 flowered ; bracts ovate-oblong, 

 much shorter than the ovaries, pale green dotted with brown. Sepals and 

 petals linear-ligulate, acute, 1| inch long, twisted, obsciuely keeled behind, 

 light yellow-green ; lip broadly oblong, emarginate, three-lobed, the side 



