Platk XLV1I. 



SACCOLABIUM J3LUMEI 



Saccolabium Bhimei. Lindlcy in Bot t Ueg, 1841, mitt. 116. 



Although this plant lias much resemblance to the common Saccolabium guttatum, it i* in reality 

 very different That species is a native, as it would wvm, exclusively of the comment of Intlia. this 

 of Java* That lias long slender racemes, this short broad ones. That a leaf with the point irregularly 

 truncate, this a leaf rather acute, and terminating in a kind of mucro. That ha* a lip of an oblong 

 ovate form, thin has a lip broadest at the end and deeply cmarginatc. Finally, the flowers of ihis 

 arc twice a* large a* those of Saccolabium {*uttntnm. and differently coloured, there bciti» no spots, 

 but the sepals and petals having each a streak of violet below their points, and the lip a broad'lilac 

 slain everywhere except at the point, which is while. 



At one lime I thought this specie* might be ihc lthyneostylis retusa of Biume, because it in 

 the only Javanese plant I have seen which could be mistaken for Saccolabium guttatum : but upon 

 examining the dried specimens brought from the Philippines by Cuming I find another still more 

 like that species than the present, and with the " folia apice hifariam retusa " which Ulumc assigns 

 to his plant, but which do not occur in the species before us* 



These three plants, namely, the true Saccolabium gnitatum. the S. Blumei. and the Manilla 

 plant, width mav be named S. macrostachyum. and which is a most noble species with a stem as 

 thick as the barrel of a musket, and a raceme as long as n field officer's plume, may be distinguished 

 in the following manner. 



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OVllO-ohlonKri gUM A**> wbTOrtAti. **|*rfi« uttxy- Ijtupjiib. Th* Pnimwla *f Mi*. 



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Umiiu obtoigi rrtuncUti riliitA rmirgwwti uuk*|ur «.uii. ./<i™. 



a & mttwtxtLy** <JHj««*fl# mm*. Bfemc Bpfc tt*?)i ttb lopfiU liffrJui- **• muatbtU cin**inim rmi pe*WU 



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 iit*puoiUtA obtu**.^— /'AiJiflW***. {an(Jar*7} 



