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TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS uot. 
THE SWEET TRICHOPILIA. 
TRICHOPILIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. III, Pp. 43. 
Trichopilia suavis, Pseudobulbi oblongi v. rotundato-oblongi, compressi, monophylli. Folia late oblonga, sub- 
acuta, coriacea, subsessilia. Scapi breves, horizontales y. penduli, 1-5 flori. Bracteae ovatae, subobtusae, Sepala sub- 
patentia lineari-lanceolata, subacuta, undulata, carinata, Petala sepalis similia, paullo latiora. Labellum obscure trilobum, 
lobo intermedio transverse oblongo emarginato crenulato-undulato, 1 libus rotundatis crenulato-undulatis, disco laevi. 
Columna brevis, clinandrio lobulato tenuissime fimbriato. 
Trichopilia suavis, LuNDL. in Pax. Fl. Gard., I, pp. 44, 53, t. 11. — Bot. Mag., t. 4054. — FI. des Serres, 
t. 761. — Lem. Fard. Fleur., Ill, t. 277. — Revue Hort., 1859, pp. 220-222, fig. 56, 57. — Rou. F. Xen. Orch., 
II, p. 103. — Warn. Sel. Orch., Ill, t. 8. — Belg. Hort., XXIV, p. 89, t. 4 (var. Lamarchae). — Puypt Orch., 
P- 327, t. 44 (var. Lamarchae), — VeitcH Man. Orch., IX, pp. 184, 185, cum xyl. — Revue Hort., 1887, pp. 453, 
434, fig. or. 
Var. alba, T. Moore in Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, I, t. 14. — Lindenia, I, t. 1. — Reichenbachia, ser. 1% 
I, p. 69; t. 31. 
his beautiful Central American species, the third known in the genus, 
appeared in 1850, in the collection of R. S. Hotrorp, Esq., at Weston- 
birt, and about the same time in the collections of Mrs Lawrence, at 
Ealing, and of Messrs Loppiczs, at Hackney. The flowers were described as 
having the most delicate odour of hawthorn. Two years later it was figured in the 
Botanical Magazine, from a plant which flowered in the nursery of Mssrs LucomBe 
Pince and C°. 
Its habitat was rather vaguely recorded as Central America until 1874, when 
E. Morren gave the following particulars in the Belgique horticole : — 
“This charming flower was discovered in 1848, by Warscewicz, in Costa Rica, 
on the Cordillera at an altitude of 5000-9000 feet. The finest specimens were met 
with on the volcano of Chiriqui, at an altitude of 8000 feet, where the thermo- 
meter ranges from 50° to 60° F.; some of the plants measureing two feet in 
circumference, and bearing from 40 to 80 flowers at a time. Wanrscewicz sent 
the plants to M" Skinner, of London, remarking they grew on the trunks of oaks, 
species of Trichilia, and on Cupania glabra, at from 20 to 40 feet above the 
ground, but never lower down, and when the trees fall through age or any other 
circumstance, the Trichopilias soon languish and die. At Chiriqui, at this altitude, 
there is a dry season lasting from November till April, when there is neither rain 
nor dew, and the wind is often very violent, but throughout the remainder of the 
year both rains and dews are copious and frequent. ” 
It varies somewhat in the amount of spotting on the lip, and also in the 
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