TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS ALBA. 
[PuatTE 14, ] 
Native of Central a i 
Epiphytal, Pseudobulbs roundish-oblong or obcordate, thin, é.e., very much com- 
pressed, clustered, monophyllous. Leaves broadly oblong, acute, leathery in texture, 
almost sessile, of a pale green colour. Scapes radical, two to four-flowered, pendent. 
Flowers large, showy, and fragrant, each emerging from the axil of a thin ovate 
bract. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, somewhat undulated, spreading, and, as well as 
the similarly-formed petals, of a pure white colour; lip large, rolled up closely at 
the base, suddenly expanded upwards so as to become funnel-shaped, and then spread 
out into a large oblique limb, which is three-lobed, with the edges wavy and crisped, 
the middle lobe larger, slightly deflexed and emarginate or bilobed. Column elongate, 
terete, bearing at the back of the anther a hood of three fimbriated lobes. 
Tricorri1a suavis, Lindley, in Paaton’s Flower Garden, i. 44; 53, t. 115 Hooker, 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4654; Van Houtte, Flore des Serres, viii., 761; Lemaire, 
Jardin Flewriste, iii. 277; Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices 
Systematice, iii, 558, et vi. 681. 
Var. apa: flowers pure white, the lip with a yellow blotch in the throat. 
TRICHOPILIA suAvIS ALBA, Hort. 
This plant belongs to a small genus of Vandeous Orchids, some of the species 
of which are exceedingly pretty, and well worthy of a place in every collection. 
Dr. Lindley calls Trichopilia suavis “a delicious Orchid,” and says that “ the flowers 
emit the most delicate odour of hawthorn.” The fragrant and richly spotted flowers 
make it a great favourite amongst growers, and no doubt it is one of the best 
and most showy of the species yet known. The variety alba, of which we have 
now the pleasure of publishing an authentic figure, the first which has appeared, is 
new to cultivation, and is also extremely rare. Our plate was prepared from a 
specimen which flowered in the fine collection of Dr. G. Boddaert, of Ghent, Belgium, 
who kindly allowed us to have a drawing made from it. 
Trichopilia suavis alba was imported, with the typical 7. suas, and is a 
compact evergreen plant, with foliage attaining from six to ten inches in height, and 
three inches in width, and of a light green colour. The pendent flower-seapes are 
produced from the base of the bulbs, and bear two or three, or sometimes four, 
flowers, which thus hang over the sides of the pan or basket in which the plant 
is cultivated. “When suspended from the roof of the house they thus have a very 
