184 TRICHOPILIA. 



lobes rolled over the column into a tube but reflexed at their apex, the 



intermediate lobe spreading, white with some yellow markings on the 



disk and some orange spots and markings within the tube. Column 



prolonged at the apex into a fringed hood. 



Trichopilia rostrata, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 798. Saunders' Ref. Bot. II. 

 t. 100. 



Discovered in New Granada by one of Messrs. Low's collectors 



in 1866 and introduced by that firm a few years afterwards. It 



is now but rarely seen. 



T. sanguinolenta. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovate-oblong, compressed, 1—2 inches long. Leaves 



linear-oblong, acute, 4 — 6 or more inches long, narrowed below into a 



short channelled petiole. Peduncles ascending, about 3 inches long, 



sheathed at each joint by a brownish acute bract f inch long, one- rarely 



two-flowered. Sepal? and petals oblong, sub-acute, more than an inch 



long, light olive-green barred and spotted with chestnut-brown, the spots 



on the petals ocellated ; lip oblong, two-lobed at the apex, the lobes 



slightly divergent, crisped and denticulate at the margin which is also 



incurved, with two erect basal auricles adnate to the column between 



which are two short protuberances ; the auricles and crest yellow, the 



blade white spotted and marked in various ways with red-purple, the 



apical area white. Column terete, terminating in a fimbriated hood. 



Trichopilia sanguinolenta, Rchb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 106, t. 131 (1865). Morren in 

 Belg. hort. (1874), p. 102. Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. p. 326. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 7281. Hclcia sanguinolenta, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1845, misc. No. 27. Id. in Paxt. 

 Fl. Gard. II. p. 97, icon, xyl, Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 682. Illv^. hort. 1870, 

 t. 31. 



For the discovery of this curious and interesting orchid science 



and horticulture are indebted to the energy of Theodor Hartweg, 



who detected it near Paccho on the Ecuadorean Andes in 1841. 



He sent it with other orchids from the same region to the 



Horticultural Society of London in whose garden at Chiswick it 



flowered two or three years afterwards^ but it seems to have been 



subsequently lost. It was re-introduced about the year 1869 by 



M. Linden through his collector Gustav Wallis. It is best known 



in gardens under the name of Helcia sanguinolenta, but it is now 



become very rare. 



T. suavis. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, much compressed, almost discoid, the largest 3J 

 inches long and 2^ inches broad. Leaves elliptic-oblong, acute, the 

 largest a foot long and 4 inches broad, the smallest less than one- 

 third as large. Peduncles pendent, 2 — 5 flowered ; bracts small, ovate. 



