[Plate 63.] 



THE CARMINE TRICHOPIL. 



(trichopilia coccinea.) 

 A Beautiful Epiphyte, from Central America, belonging to the Natural Order of Orchids. 



Specific Character. 



THE CARMINE TRICHOPIL. — Pseudobulbs oblong, narrow, compressed, furrowed, one-leaved. Leaves lanceolate, 

 fiat, somewhat cordate at the base, acuminate and recurved at the point. Peduncles one-flowered. Petals 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, twisted once. Lip four-lobecl, closely rolled up at the base ; its divisions rounded, 

 convex, plane. Hood three-lobed with fringed nearly equal divisions. 



Trichopilia coccinea : Warczewicz in his correspondence and throughout the English auctions and gardens in 1849 and 

 1850 : alias Trichopilia marginata : Gard. Mag. of Bot., July, 1851, with a figure. 



THIS beautiful species of Tiichopil was found in Central America by Mr. Warczewicz 

 (not by Linden, as has been stated) , by whom drawings and living plants were sent 

 to England in 18-19, under the name of T. coccinea, by which it was publicly sold, and 

 has since been universally known. We cannot therefore subscribe to Mr. Henfrey's 

 alteration of the name to T. marginata, either in justice to the zealous and ill-requited 

 traveller who found it, or in the interest of science, which suffers seriously in public 

 estimation by the needless changes in names made by writers on Natural History subjects. 



The usual colour of the flower is a deep rich carmine, with a narrow edge of white; 

 but it appears from the figure above referred to, that the rich colour is sometimes con- 

 fined to the lining of the tube, the whole of the expanded limb being white. The 

 drawing from which our plate was prepared was made in the garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, and the colour is less intense than in Mr. Warczewicz's unpublished 

 drawings. 



It is not to the Sweet Trichopil (our plate 32) that we must look for resemblance 

 to this species, for the whole form, texture, and aspect of that plant are different. It 



