TKICHOPILIA — TKICHOSMA. 737 



T. TORTILIS, I/indl. — A pretty and interesting species on account of the 

 peculiar corkscrew-like sepals and petals. The pseudobulbs are oblong or ligu- 

 late, compressed, 2 to 4 inches long, monophyllous, the leaf being oblong acute 

 coriaceous, and the peduncles solitary and single-flowered. The drooping flowers 

 are large and attractive, the sepals and petals narrow lanceolate, spirally twisted, 

 yellowish green with lurid brownish-purple blotches along the middle part, and 

 the lip white outside, yellowish-white or white within, spotted thickly with rose 

 colour and blotched with yellow about the throat, the base^'closely rolled in, 

 the front part spreading out and three-lobed, the rounded lateral lobes meeting 

 as usual over the throat, the front flattened-out lobe two-cleft. It produces its 

 flowers fi-eely at various times of the year, and lasts two or three weeks in 

 beauty. There are different varieties of this plant, one with much brighter- 

 coloured flowers, and one with white flowers — the var. CANDIDA, Linden et 

 Eclii. /., imported from Chiapas by M. Linden. — Mexico. 



Fid.— £ot. Mag., t. 3739 ; Bot Beg., t. 1863 ; Maund, Botanist, iii. t. 122 ; Knowles 

 4- Weste., Floral Cab., t. 101 ; Hook.' Fii-stCcut. Orch. Pl.,t. 75; Oi-cMd Album, viii . 

 t. 349. 



TRICHOSMA, UndleiJ. 

 (^Trihe Epidendreac. .wz/rfi-iJc Coelogyneae.) 



A small Indian genus consisting of a single epiphytal species, with 

 the habit of Coelogyne, having clustered two-leaved stems, sub-plicate 

 somewhat fleshy leaves, and terminal racemes of largish flowers, of which 

 the sepals and petals are spreading, and an articulated broadly three- 

 lobed Up. 



Culture.— This plant should be grown in a pot with rough fibrous 

 peat and good drainage; when in active growth it must be kept 

 moderately moist, it should never be allowed to get dry, as it has no 

 thick fleshy pseudobulbs to support it. 



T. SUAVIS, Lindl.—A. very distinct and scarce plant, having thin tufted 

 terete stems 8 or 10 inches high, furnished with two broadly lanceolate 

 obsoletely three-nerved leaves, and bearing short terminal racemes of fragrant 

 flowers ; the sepals and petals are lanceolate, creamy white, and the lip ha^ a 

 three-lobed limb, the side lobes white striped with brownish-crimson, the middle 

 lobe undulated, recurved, yellow margined with crimson, and bearing several 

 crispy crests on the disk. It flowers during the spring months.— Ehasia 

 Motmtains. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 21 ; Orchid Album, iii. t. 114. 



&TS.—Eria .mavis; E. coroiiana; Cuelogyne eoronaria. 



TRIGONIDIU M. — See Laelia monophylla. 



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