Tas. 4772. 
SACCOLABIUM DENTICULATUM. 
Toothed Saccolabium. 
Nat. Ord. Orcnu1pE#.—GyYNANDRIA MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, patens. Sepala petalis equalia, lateralia, 
seepius majora. Labellum indivisum, calcaratum, basi column accretum. Columna 
erecta, semiteres, rostello subulato. dnthera semibilocularis. Pollinia 2, sub- 
globosa, caudicula elongata, glandula minuta.—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes. 
Folia disticha, coriacea, apice sepius obliqua. Flores asillares, racemosi v. 
solitarit. Lindl. 3 
SaccoLaBium denticulatum ; caule repente radicoso, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis- 
simis, racemis corymbosis folio brevioribus, sepalis petalisque subsimilibus 
obovato-spathulatis patentibus, labelli calcare globoso amplo utrinque uni- 
dentato perianthio quali, laminz lato-triangularis margine densissime 
glanduloso-fimbriato, columna brevi denticulata. bees 
Saccotasrum denticulatum. Paxton, Mag. of Bot. v. 7. p. 145. cum Ie, 
Said to be a native of Khasya in Eastern Bengal, introduced 
to our stoves in 1837, and among the Orchideous collection be- 
queathed to Kew by the late Mr. Clowes. It is a plant of little 
show, but the flowers are exceedingly beautiful when minutely 
examined, and they are prettily variegated in regard to colour. 
It flowers with us in November. 
Drscr. Stems a span or more long, thicker than a swan’s: 
quill, here and there throwing out large fleshy unbranched vermi- — 
cular roots. Leaves rather remote, distichous, four to five inches — 
long, patent or reflexed, linear, oblong, acute, one-nerved, some- — 
what fleshy, articulated upon the sheath, often obliquely twisted. 
Peduncles \ateral, extra-axillary, much shorter than the leaves, 
terete, thickened upwards, bearing a corymbose or almost umbel- 
late raceme of numerous small flowers, elegantly marked and 
spotted with red, white, and yellow. Sepals and petals free, 
spreading horizontally, nearly uniform in size and colour, obovato- | 
spathulate, externally green, within olive-brown, spotted with — 
MARCH lst, 1854.. — 
