. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 732 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 pl
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 732 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, —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. of Sort., 1886, xii. p. 194, f. 34 ; Id., 1893, xxvi. p. 233, f. 47. T. FASCIATA, —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 a
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