TRICHOCENTRUM TIGRINUM. 
[PLATE 484.] 
Native of Ecuador. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs none, Leaves oblong, acute, channelled above, carinate 
beneath, somewhat thick and fleshy in texture, rich shining green, more or less 
freckled with reddish dots. Peduneles issuing from the base of the leaf, 1—2 
flowered. Flowers upwards of two inches across, sepals and petals nearly equal, 
spreading, strap-shaped, lanceolate, acute, light yellowish green, freely dotted with 
brownish crimson ; lip  flabellate, emarginate in front, cuneate at the base, white, 
with rich yellow calli, and having a large blotch of rosy mauve on either side at 
the base. Column smali, erect, thick and fleshy in texture. 
TRICHOCENTRUM ‘TIGRINUM, Linden et Reichenbach ju, in L’Illustration Horticole, 
3rd series, t. 282. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 6th edition, p. 589. 
We have much pleasure in placing before our readers another portrait of these 
beautiful little gems, which received so much attention from Mr. Richard Pfau, a 
Swiss botanist, when collecting Orchids in Central America. Some of the more 
showy and interesting species we have from time to time figured in these pages, 
such as Trichocentrum albo-purpureum, Vol. iv., Pl. 204; TZ. orthoplectron, Vol. vi., 
Pl. 272; and now the beautiful species here figured; but the species which we 
take to be the finest and the most beautiful known is 7 porphyris, which we 
hope to also lay before our readers on a future occasion, as well as the some- 
what smaller-flowered 7: Pfavii. The present species, J. tigrinwm, is a plant which 
so enraptured Reichenbach, when describing it, that he said it was a plant having 
the flowers of Miltonia spectabilis and the colouring of Cattleya Aclandiae. 
Without, however, quite endorsing this description, it is undoubtedly a_ singularly 
charming and beautiful plant. The specimen here figured flowered in our own 
establishment in the spring of the present year, at the Victoria and Paradise 
Nurseries, Upper Holloway. 
These plants thrive best on blocks of wood, having a small quantity of 
sphagnum moss attached, but in such a_ position they require more attention and 
care than when growing in a closer and denser atmosphere ; of course grown 
in baskets their roots would remain in a moister condition for a longer time 
on giving more water at once, but this we do not think a good thing for 
small-growing choice Orchids, and we prefer the case where fresh supplies are 
the more necessary, or placed in small earthenware pans, which must be well 
drained, and but a small portion of soil put about the roots. They should be 
