Tas. 5595. 
SACCOLABIUM AMPULLACEUM. 
Bottle-lipped Saccolabium. 
Nat. Ord. Orncu1pEz.—GyNnanpRiIA MoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Taz. 5326.) 
SaccoLaBiIuM ampullaceum ; caule brevissimo, foliis crassissimis distichis 
ligulatis canaliculatis apice truncatis dentatis, racemis oblongis erectis 
foliis multo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque ovatis patentibus subeequa- 
libus, labello angusto acuminato concavo calcare compresso pendulo ° 
duplo breviore. Lindl. 
SaccoLaBiuM ampullaceum. Lindl. Sert. Orch. t.17. Pazt. Mag. v. 13. 
t. 49. 
/ERIDES ampullaceum. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3. p. 476. 
This is a neat, compact, and beautiful plant, it is likewise 
perfectly distinct from any other species of the genus at pre- 
sent known. It was figured so long ago as 1838 by Dr. 
Lindley, in his ‘Sertum,’ but his plate was copied from a 
drawing in the possession of the East India Company. A 
few living specimens found their way shortly afterwards into 
collections,—one of which, that flowered at Chatsworth, was 
figured in ‘ Paxton’s Magazine,—but the plant continued ex- 
ceedingly rare until Messrs. H. Low and Co. received a sup- 
ply from one of their Indian collectors. The accompanying | 
figure was taken from a plant that flowered at Kew in May. 
EH. ampullaceum is a native of Sylhet, where it was found 
growing upon trees by some of Dr. Roxburgh’s correspon- 
dents. Dr. Wallich met with it near Bemphedy, and it was 
also gathered in Sikkim by Drs. Hooker and Thomson. Its 
time of flowering, both in India and our gardens, is the spring. 
It grows slowly, rarely producing offsets, but is easily ma- 
naged. Nothing can be more charming than its bright rose- 
i racemes, which are freely produced and last long in 
eauty. 
kee: A dwarf plant, not rising more than six inches 
AvGuUsST lst, 1866. 
