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€l)t Craufurg of JJntanj). 



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cups are funnel-shaped or shortly bell- 

 shaped, truncate at the mouth, entire with 

 a straight or spreading margin, or more or 

 less distinctly two-lipped. The species are 

 most abundant in the moist shady woods 



Feea spicata. 



of the tropics both of the Old and New 

 World. One of them, T. radicans or specio- 

 sum, occurs in Madeira and on the coast of 

 Ireland ; this species was formerly found 

 sparingly in Yorkshire. There are two toler- 

 ably distinct groups— Eutrichomanes, with 

 the involucres truncate, spreading or not 

 at the mouth ; and Didymoglossum, with 

 the involucres two-lipped. They are distin- 

 suished from Feea by the much-contracted 

 fertile fronds of the latter. [T. M.] 



TRICHONEMA. A genus of Irida-cew, 

 occurring chiefly in South Africa and in the 

 Mediterranean region: and consisting of 

 small bulb-tuberous plants, with narrow 

 leaves, and short terete scapes bearing so- 

 litary crocus-like flowers. It is closely re- 

 lated to Crocus, and differs chiefly from 

 that familiar genus in the short tube of 

 the perianth, and in having three bifid 

 stigmas with slender lobes. [T. M.j 



TRICHOPETALUM. A small genus of 

 Liliacem from Chili, with fasciculate roots, 

 linear-ensiform grass-like leaves, and sub- 

 solitary racemose or spicate-paniculate 

 white flowers, green on the outside of the 

 hexapetaloid perianth, the segments of 

 which are recurved, the three inner fringed 

 at the margins. There are six stamens, 

 with glabrous filaments ; and the capsule is 

 oblong three-celled, with numerous kidney- 

 shaped compressed seeds having a hard 

 ijlack seed-coat. Antherieum plumosum is 

 to be referred to this genus, and is now 

 known as T. stellatum. [J. T. S.] 



TRICHOPHORUM. The stipe of certain 

 fungals. 



TRICHOPILIA. A beautiful though 

 small genus of epiphytal orchids, belong- 

 ing to the Vandem. They are natives of 

 Tropical America and the West Indian 

 Islands, and consist of herbs with curi- 



ously sheathed fleshy pseudobulbs, hav- 

 ing but one coriaceous leaf, and solitary 

 axillary brilliantly-coloured flowers. The 

 sepals and petals are equal, long narrow, 

 in some species twisted ; and the lip some- 

 what three-lobed, convolute, naked within. 

 It differs from Maxillaria in the column 

 not being reclinate on the ovary, in the 

 spreading sepals and petals, and especially- 

 in the singular column terminated by three 

 little plume-like lobes, which unite at their 

 base into a sort of hood that covers a re- 

 markably compressed anther. [W. B. H.] 



TRICHOPODIUM. A genus of Indian 

 herbaceous plants, of the family Aristolo- 

 chiacece. The leaves are lanceolate or linear ; 

 the female flowers, which' alone are de- 

 scribed, have a perianth which is tubular 

 at the base and has a six-cleft limb ; there 

 are six sterile stamens, inserted in as many 

 pits, and three cleft stigmas. The fruit 

 is triangular, with wings at the angles, 

 three-celled and indehiscent: and there 

 are one or two seeds in each cell. [M. T. M.] 



TRICHOPTERIS. Amphidesmium. 



TRICHOS. In Greek compounds = hair- 

 ike, or hairy. 



TRICHOSACME. A Mexican genus of 

 Asclepiadacece, consisting of a solitary 

 species, T. lunata, an erect shrub covered 

 all over with white wool. It is character- 

 ised by the corolla having a very short 

 flattened tube, and egg-shaped segments, 

 slightly notched at the apex, and marked 

 outside with a bearded nerve, which is 

 ; prolonged a considerable distance beyond 

 i the apex of the segment, and forms a 

 ; slender appendage, densely covered up- 

 ! wards with long jointed hairs, resembling 

 a pencil-brush : the generic name, derived 

 from trichos ' hair' and acme ' a point,' re- 

 ferring to this appendage. The staminal 

 corona is shortly urceolate or ring-like, 

 the rim beingdivided into Ave short teeth, 

 each of which is slightly notched ; the an- 

 j thers have no terminal appendages ; and 

 the pollen-masses are pendulous. [A. S.] 

 TRICHOSAKDRA. A genus of ascle- 

 l piads, containing a single species, T. bor- 

 ; bonica, a twining shrub, native of the 

 island of Bourbon, with smooth leaves 

 shining on the upper side, and solitary 

 many-flowered cymes on short stalks be- 

 yond the leaf-axils. It is allied to Gym- 

 nemo, from which it is technically distin- 

 guished by the gynostegium, which is 

 nearly as long as the calyx-tube, being 

 naked ; and by the anthers terminating in 

 a white irregularly torn hairy membrane. 

 Its flowers have a corolla approaching a 

 bell-shaped form, with five erect segments, 

 and naked at the orifice ; and its fruits are 

 smooth and woody, and contain seeds 

 furnished with hair-tufts. [A. S.] 



TRICHOSANTHES. A genus of Cucur- 

 bitacece, named from two Greek words sig- 

 nifying 'hairy flowers,' in allusion to the 

 blossoms being beautifully fringed. It con- 

 sists of about thirty (mostly Asiatif) 

 species of trailing or climbing plants, with 



