TRICHOPILiA. 



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membraneous, striated. Flowers fragrant and the largest in the genus ; 



sepals and petals lanceolate, acuminate, undulate, cream-white sometimes 



spotted with pale rose ; lip broadly obcordate-cuneate with crisped and 



crenulate margin, obscurely three-lobed, the basal half white, convolute 



over the column into the form of a wide-mouthed funnel, the apical 



half spreading, more or less spotted and blotched with rose-pink, and 



with some orange spots and markings on the disk. Column terete with 



a fringed four-lobed hood. 



Trichopilia suavis, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. I. pp. 44, 53, t. 11 (1850). Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4654. Van Houtte's Fl. des Serres, VIII. t. 761. Warner's Sel. Orch. III. t. 8. 

 Rchb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 103. De Puydt, Les Orch. t. 44. Belg. hort. 1874, p. 89 

 (Lamarchei). 



Trichopilia suavis. 



SUb-var.— a//^a (Williams' Orch. Allj. I. t. 14. Lindcnia, I. t. 2), 

 flowers wholly white except the yellow spot on the disk of the 

 lip which is paler than in the spotted forms. 



