280 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS. 
TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS is one of the handsomest species of the genus, and 
when grown as in the accompanying illustration of a plant in the collection 
of R. le Doux, Esq., Marlfield, West Derby, Liverpool, is certainly very 
effective. It is grown in a six-inch pot, suspended from the roof, and when 
photographed bore twenty flowers. It isa native of Costa Rica, where it 
was discovered about the year 1848, by Warscewicz, on the Chiriqui 
volcano, at an altitude of 5,000 to 8,000 feet. It first flowered in cultivation 
in 1851. According to E. Morren, the plant was found growing on oaks, 
and ona tree called Cupania glabra, at from 20 feet to 40 feet from the 
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ground, never lower down, and if the trees fall down from accident or old 
age, the Trichopilias on them languish and die. During the dry season, from 
November to April, there is neither rain nor dew, and the wind is often 
very violent, but during the rest of the year both rains and dews are copious 
and frequent. A light position in the Intermediate house is usually 
considered the most suitable, good drainage and careful watering being also 
essential. When well grown, and the bulbs properly matured, it is very 
floriferous, and its fragrant, white blossoms, with rose-pink spots on the lip 
and a yellow throat, are produced in early summer, 
