Tab. 5433. 



SACCOLABIUM Harrisonianum. 



Mr. Harrisons Saccolabium. 



Nat. Ord. Orchidejs. — Gynandria Monandkia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5326.) 



Saccolabium Harrisonianum ; foliis distiche iinbricatis oblongis inferne cari- 

 nato-caualiculatis striatis apice oblique bifidis, racemis inultitioris densis 

 pedunculatis axillaribus pendulis, floribus albis, sepalis ovato-oblongis 

 obtusis plauiusculis subincurvis, petalis angustioribus oblongis subspathu- 

 latis, labello oblougo-obovato obtuso grosse apiculato apicem versus sac- 

 cato, disco linea solitaria elevata crassa, calcare obconico obtuso. 



Saccolabium Harrisonianum. Hort. Low. 



A beautiful white Saccolabium, as we consider it to be, with 

 pure white, deliriously fragrant flowers, communicated to us in 

 November, 1863, by Messrs. Stuart and Low, of the Clapton 

 Nursery, who suggested the name S. Harrisonianum, in com- 

 pliment to C. H. Harrison, Esq., a gentleman greatly interested 

 in the introduction and cultivation of Indian Orchids. The pre- 

 sent species was imported by him from Pulo Copang, in the 

 Chinese seas, and so successfully that the specimen here figured 

 flowered in the box during the voyage, and certainly does not 

 give an idea of what may be expected from well-cultivated or 

 native-flowering specimens ; and indeed, withered samples in the 

 same box (some of which were sent to us) prove that the ra- 

 cemes attain a length of twenty to twenty-four inches, and one 

 plant received had seven such spikes upon it. The effect of 

 such a specimen must be very striking. 



In many respects (but not in the colour of the flowers) this 

 plant bears a resemblance to Saccolabium Blumei, figured by 

 Dr. Lindley in bis ' Sertum Orchidaceum,' t. 47, but the 

 apex of the leaves and of the labellum is different : still more 

 does it resemble Dr. Lindley's Vanda violacea, figured at t. 30, 

 of the 33rd volume of the Bot. Register, for 1847 ; so much so, 



MARCH 1st, 1864. 



