value as an ornamental plant; and its flowers, which always 
droop, fall so soon after opening, that it never looks so well 
as its showy appearance on paper, or in the Herbarium, would 
lead us to expect. 
NEw GARDEN PLANTS. 
SACCOLABIUM MINIATUM. 
S. miniatum; racemis brevibus erectis cylindraceis, bracteis minimis acutis, 
sepalis petalisque ovatis acutis patulis, labello lineari obtuso recurvo 
calcare recto pendulo tereti breviore, polliniis albis. 
A Java plant, imported by Messrs. Veitch, and flowered 
by both Mr. Rucker and Mr. C. B. Warner. It is not to be 
traced among Blume’s species, and seems new. Its flowers, 
of a gay vermilion, or rich apricot colour, although somewhat 
small, have an extremely lively effect ; they grow in upright 
racemes, about ten together. We have not seen the foliage. 
RENANTHERA MATUTINA. 
Lindl. gen. & sp. Orch. p. 218. 
We find that we were wrong in referring to this species 
the plant figured in our volume for 1843, t. 41. ‘That 
species we find in Sir W. Hookers Herbarium, under the 
name of R. moluccana of Blume. We now know that the true 
R. matutina is a much finer plant, with petals more than an 
inch long, it having been sent from Java, by Mr. Thomas 
Lobb, to Messrs. Veitch, who have it for sale. It produces a 
large branching panicle, each of whose arms is from six to 
nine inches long, and carries from six to twelve flowers. 
