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orchid-gkower's manual. 



TRICHOGLOTTIS, Blume. 



(Tribe Vandeae, subtribe Sarcantheae.) 

 A small genus of epiphytal Orchids, with elongate leafy stems, disti- 

 chous leaves, and lateral peduncles bearing few-flowered short racemes, 

 or sometimes solitary flowers. The group is closely allied to Sarcochilus, 

 from which it differs mainly in not having a fleshy lip. The species, of 

 which about half a dozen are known, inhabit the Malay Archipelago. 



Culture. — The plants require the same treatment as Acrides, Vanda, 

 and other genera of the same ebulbous character. 



T. COCHLEARIS, Rchb.f.—A rare species, introduced in 1883 by Messrs. J. 

 Veitch. & Sons. In habit it somewhat resembles a dwarf Vanda, growing to a 

 height of about 8 or 9 inches ; the leaves are thick, channelled, unequally bilobed 

 at the apex; the scapes are produced from the axils of the upper leaves, short 

 four-flowered; flowers smaller than those of Saccolabium violaceum; the sepals 

 and petals white barred transversely with purple ; lip scoop-shaped, white 

 blotched with purple. — Sumatra. 



Fig.- Jutirn. of Sort., 1886, xii. p. 194, f. 34 ; Id., 1893, xxvi. p. 233, f. 47. 



T. FASCIATA, Rchh.f. — A rather showy species of free-growing habit, with 

 stoutish rooting stems attaining a moderate height, furnished with distichous 



oblong obtuse apioulate leaves, 

 3 inches long, sheathing the 

 stem at the base, and bearing 

 lateral spikes of rather large 

 leathery flowers, suggestive of 

 those of Phalaenopsis sumatrana, 

 few in number, but rather effec- 

 tive from their distinctly banded 

 coloration. Those flowers have 

 trigonous peduncles and pedi- 

 cels, cuneate oblong acute sepals 

 and petals, the lateral sepals 

 falcate, all white externally, pale 

 greenish -yellow inside closely 

 marked with transverse bars 

 of cinnamon - brown ; and a 

 curiously-shaped lip, which has 

 dolabriform basal auricles and a 

 trifld blade, with the side lobes 

 triangular and spreading and 

 the middle lobe keeled, obliquely obtuse iu front — the lip whitish, with the side 

 lobes yellow at the tip, and the keel with a few purplish spots beneath ; the dola- 

 briform auricles have three velvety lines between them. — Eastern Tropical Asia. 

 FiGr.— Orchid Album, v. t. 208 ; rOrcMdopMU; 1885, p. 282. 

 'Ayy^.— Stiiuropni-i fiixi'inta. 



TEICHOGLOTTIS FASCIATA. 



