Pilumna 



half the size will often bear. Basket. July to 

 Christmas. Brazil. 1850. 5.s. 



Wciiticorthianu'in (after Lord Fitzwilliam). — 

 Yellow, barred with deep lirown. Profuse of flower. 

 Guatemala. 7.<. G'/. 



Palumbina. (Vide One. candiditm.) 



Pilumna. 



A genus hardly to be distinguished from Tri- 

 chopilia ; in fact, most of the species formerly 

 assigned to it are now classed under that title. 

 Custom, however, still retains the three described. 

 They must be cultivated like Odonttiglossums. 

 The flower springs from the side of the bulb when 

 mature. 



Fragrans. — An attractive species, easily grown. 

 It bears three or four large flowers, palest green of 

 sepal and petal, snow-white of lip, with a yellow 

 blotch at the throat. Strongly scented. Winter. 

 New Granada. 1856. 3.s. QJ. 



Laxa (loose). — Less efiective, but producing more 

 flowers, and as sweetly scented. Sepals and petals 

 dusky green, lip white. Summer. United States 

 of Columbia. 1841. 2.s'. Qd. 



JVobili». — A larger variety of fragrans, and in so 

 far even handsomer. Winter. New Granada, o.s-. 6(7. 



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