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view ; there are, however, some few exceptions to this rule, of 

 which the species here quoted are examples. They have free 

 spreading sepals and petals, and a lip which is connate with the 

 base of the column into a pitcher, and is produced into a longish 

 spur, the middle lobe being flattened out, broadly two-lobed, and 

 much longer than the sepals. Eight species are recorded from Brazil 

 and Central America. 



Culture. — These plants •ehould be grown on a block, or in a small 

 basket, and treated to a moderately M-^arm temperature ; care must 

 especially be taken that no stagnant water remains about their roots. 



T. ALBO-PURPUREUM, Linden et Bchh.f.—A pretty dwarf epiphyte, having 

 minute ovoid monophyllous psendobnlbs growing in tnfts, and sessile oblong 



acute shining green leaves, 4 to 

 6 inches long, the one-flowered 

 peduncles springing from the 

 base of the bulbs. The flowers 

 are large for the size of the plant, 

 and freely produced ; the cuneate 

 oblong sepals and the more ob- 

 long petals are of a bright cinna- 

 mon-brown inside, tawny-yellow 

 outside ; while the lip is large, 

 projected forwards, pandurate, 

 broad and bilobed in front, white 

 with two large purple spots near 

 the base, the disk veined with 

 rosy-purple passing to yellow, and 

 having a crest of four rosy-purple 

 keels. It should be grown at the 

 cool end of the Cattleya house. — 

 TEICHOCENTEUM ALBO-PUEPtJEEUM. North Brazil. 



FiG.—JSot. Mag., t. 5688 ; Orchid Allum., v. t. 204 ; Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 219, 

 with fig. ; Juurn. of Hort., 1887, xiv. p. 27, f. 5. 



T. FUSCUM, Lindl. — ^This is a pretty and interesting species, yet it is one of 

 the least beautiful in this genus. It however does not occupy much space, and 

 is worthy a place in a large collection, on account of the season at which its 

 blooms are produced. Leaves oblong, obtuse, thick and fleshy in texture, 

 some 6 inches long, and deep green. Flowers produced singly on short pedun- 

 cles, sepals and petals narrowly oblong, nearly equal, of a uniform brownish- 

 green ; lip oblong, anterior lobe notched in front, white with a few lines of yellow 

 on the disk, side lobes small, erect, white streaked at the base with pale crimson. 

 Flowers during the autumn and winter months. — Brazil. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 3969 ; Bot. Beg., t. 1951. 



