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and petals cream-white, sometimes spotted with pale rose; lip having 
the margin crisped, obscurely three lobed, the basal half white, con- 
volute over the column into the form of a wide-mouthed funnel, the 
apical half more or less spotted and blotched with rose-pink. The 
variety alba bears flowers entirely white, except the yellow spot on the 
disc of the lip which is paler than in the spotted forms. In the variety 
TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS. 
grandiflora the flowers are larger than the type, while the lip is spotted 
with rich crimson and the throat is deep orange. This well-known 
species was discovered in 1848, by Warscewicz in Costa Rica, on the 
Cordillera, at an altitude of 5,000-8,000 feet. The plants were said to 
be growing on oaks, at from 20-40 feet above the ground, never lower 
down: if the trees to which they were affixed fell down the Trichopilias 
upon them languished and died. T. suavis flowered for the first time 
in England in 1851, simultaneously in the collections of Mrs. Lawrence 
