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Plate 164. 



TEICHOPILIA FEAGKANS 



Fragrant TricJiopilia. 



Gen. Char, {Vide siipra, Plate 115.) 



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Trichopilia /m^m?is; pseudobulbis oblongo-Ianceolatis elatis compressis, foliis solitnriis Intis 

 pedunculis 3-6-floris nutantibus brevioribus, bracteis lanceolatis crcctis, sepalits petal isqne 

 oblongo^lanceolatis acuminatis^ labello oblongo subtrilobo la3vi, 



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Trichopilu fragrans. Eeichcnb. Walpers' Ann. v. 6. p. 680. 



PiLUMNA fragrans. Lindl Bot. Beg, v. 30, 1844, Misc. 74. :Bot. Mag. t. 5035. 



Tkichopilia Candida. Linden, Hort. 



The discovery of several new species of Trichopi 



of th 



called genus Pihanfia of Lindley, proves beyond a doubt that the two genera 



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be kept apart, and I have therefore adopted, without hesitation, Trofessor 



Reichenbach's change of Pilumna fragrans into Tricliopilia fragrans. It is a pre 



smelling plant from Popayan, flowering, under 



freely enough 



the spring. Lady Dorothy Nevill contributed the specimen figured in the Plate, from 

 her famous collection at Dangstein. 



Bescr. Pseudohdh oblong, four to six inches long, subterete or slightly com 

 pressed, smooth, monophyllous, sheathed at the base with three or four large faintly 

 striated membranaceous scales. Leaf oblong-lanceolate, six to eight inches long, acute, 

 smooth, veinless, rather fleshy and opaque. Peduncle arising from tlie base of the 

 pseudobulb, pendent, about a foot long, including the floivers: these are large, hand- 

 some, four or more in a bracteatcd raceme. Bracteas ovato-oblong, acute, witlirn..?. 

 I'ediceU two inches long, but gradually passing into the club-sliaped, thrce-fm 

 ovary. Sepals and petals nearly uniform, long (two and a half to three mdi.- 

 iTiuch spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly twisted. TAp very large, le 

 lower part of the claw united to the column ; the rest involute, so as to enclose tnr 

 column ; from the claw the limh suddenly expands so as to be very large, almost 



