Tap. 6222. 
SACCOLABIUM HeEnNDERSONIANUM. 
Native of Borneo. 
Nat, Ord. Orcumpez.—Tribe VANDEZ, 
Genus SACCOLABIUM, Blume (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 220). 
SACCOLABIUM Hendersonianum ; caule brevissimo, foliis crassis distichis ligulatis 
subacutis carinatis apice integerrimis, racemo breviter pedunculato cylin. 
draceo multifloro, rachi glauca, bracteis parvis triangularibus, floribus 4 poll. 
diam. roseis, sepalo dorsali orbiculato concavo, lateralibus longioribus late 
obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis, petalis sepalo dorsali sequilongis obovatis, 
labello ad calcar cylindraceum compressum pallidum rectum obtusum 
pias ore 3-dentato v. 3-cuspidato, columna brevissima, caudicula recta 
su ata, 
§. Hendersonianum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. N.S. (1875), vol. fv., p. 356. 
Dr. Reichenbach, in describing this bright-coloured species 
ag a very curious and beautiful plant, further states that it is 
difficult to assign it a place amongst the known species, 
adding that it will be compared by beginners with S. 
ampullaceum (Tab. nost. 5595) and S. miniatum of Lindl. (to 
which might be added the S. miniatum of this work (Tab. 
5326), which I have reason to believe is the true S. 
curvifolium). All these species have, however, a distinct lip 
of a linear form, an organ reduced in S. Hendersonianum to 
obscure teeth at the mouth of the spur, as in S. roseum and 
compressum. 1am indebted to my friend Dr. Reichenbach 
for identifying the plant, and to Messrs. E. G. Henderson 
and Sons, of the Wellington Road Nurseries, for the oppor- 
tunity of figuring it. It was imported from Borneo, and 
flowered in 1874; but Dr. Reichenbach informs me that it 
has been in Europe ever since the year 1862. 
Descr. Stem very short. Leaves four to six inches long, 
distichous, curved and spreading in various directions, very 
coriaceous, ligulate, subacute, but obscurely two-lobed at the 
tip through the recurved tip being deeply channelled, pale 
green. Raceme as long as the leaves, shortly peduncled, 
Apri ist, 1576. 
