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•wavy border is of the purest white, which affords an admirable contrast to the 

 large purple spots, the numerous purple nervations giving the effect of spots 

 at the distance." This novelty was communicated to us by W. E. Brymer, Esq., 

 Dorchester. — Burmali. 



T. MARSHALLIANA TRILOBA, RcU. f.—k. superb variety, first flowered by 

 ourselves in 1888 ; the flowers are large ; sepals and petals pure white, with an 

 abruptly trilobed lip, which has dark reddish-brown veins, and twelve darker 

 rows of processes or crests. 



T. MASTERSIANA, Krcinzlin. — -This new species is described by Dr. 

 Ki-anzlin as being exceedingly handsome, of strong robust habit ; the stems 

 immediately above the ground are as thick as the thumb, and more than 4 feet 

 m height, with glaucous densely crowded distichous leaves, 10 to 12 inches 

 long, nearly 2 inches broad ; in general appearance the plant is more like a 

 palm than any other Thunia. " It is, of course, nearly allied to T. alba, and 

 perhaps even more closely to T. pulchra, but it differs from both ; the flowers 

 are scarcely half the size of the two allied species, the labellum is more cam- 

 panulate, only the extreme margin is revoluted." Named in honour of Dr. 

 Maxwell T. Masters, F.'R.S.—Moulmein. 



T. NIVALIS, Hurt. — This plaut, which resembles T. alba, has erect terete 

 stems, seldom exceeding 18 inches in height, and furnished with glaucous 

 distichous leaves, about 6 inches in length, which fall off' during the resting 

 season. The flowers are produced on a short raceme from the apex of the stem, 

 each cluster containing some five or six pure white blossoms. — SylJiet. 



T. VEITCHIANA, Bclib. f. — This plant, which has for some time been known 

 to us under the name of T. Wrigleyana, was, we believe, first raised and 

 flowered by the late Mr. Geo. Toll, of Manchester, who named it after E. G. 

 Wrigley, Esq., and subsequently sold us the stock. Since then it has been 

 exhibited by Messrs. Veitoh & Sons under the name of T. Veitchiana, at the 

 same time as exhibited by us under the name of T. Wrigleijana, at the Royal 

 Botanic Society's Show, in Maj-, 1885. It is a hybrid between T. Bensoniae and 

 T. MarshalliaiKi ; the sepals and petals are white, just tinged with mauve at 

 their tips, the keels of the disk are of a peculiar orange-purple, the anterior 

 part of the lip is fine mauve-purple, and the superior portion of the lip white, 

 with some mauve-purple veins. — fjiirden hybrid. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, vii. t. 32l!. 

 Syx. — T. Wrigleyana. 



T. WRIGLEYANA.— See T. Veitchiaxa. 



TRICHOCENTRUM, Poeppig et Endlicher. 



(Trihe Vaudeae, .mitribe Onoidieae.) 

 This is a small genus of dwarf epiphytes, with small monophyllous 

 pseudobiilbs, and radical scapes, bearing one or two flowers of medium 

 size. Many of the species are interesting only from a botanical point of 



