Var. Russellianum.—A particularly beautiful variety with very large, crowded 
blooms, well spotted, and the spikes longer than those of other varieties. 
SACCOLABIUM COELESTE. A syn. of Rhynchostylis Coelestis (q.v.). 
SACCOLABIUM CURVIFOLIUM. Native of Nepal, Burma and Java. 
A compact growing, dwarfed plant with erect stems from 6 inches to a foot in 
height, with narrow, praemorse, deflexed, channelled, light green leaves. Racemes 
erect and about 6 inches tall, crowded with bright orange-scarlet flowers about 
an inch across. Flowers in midsummer and lasts about three weeks. 
Var. luteum.—Has bright yellow flowers. 
SACCOLABIUM FURCATUM. Native of Java. 
A slow growing but robust species with the typical stem and stout, truncate 
leaves about 8 inches long. It is something after the nature of S. Blumei, but the 
flowers are more loosely set on the spike. Colour, white spotted with rose. Blooms 
late in the Summer and lasts about three weeks. 
SACCOLABIUM GUTTATUM. Native of India, Java, etc. 
This is really a variety of Rhynchostylis retusa. The flowers are white spotted 
with deep purple. Lip purple. 
SACCOLABIUM HENDERSONIANUM. Native of Borneo. 
A pretty, dwarf species with a short stem and strap-shaped, leathery, bright green 
leaves. Racemes about 6 inches long, upright and crowded with flowers, each 
nearly 3-inch in depth. Sepals and petals bright rosy-red. Lip is a somewhat 
flattened, conical spur, with three teeth at the mouth. It is white. Flowers in 
Summer and lasts three weeks. 
SACCOLABIUM PRAEMORSUM.—Syn. with Sac. Blumei, Rhynchostylis retusa 
praemorsa. 
SACCOLABIUM RETUSUM.—Syn. with Rhynchostylis retusa. 
ANOTA GIGANTEUM. Native of Burma. 
A grand species with stout, erect stems sheathed with the bases of the long, strap- 
shaped, stout, dark green leaves which are streaked on the surface with lighter 
green and are obliquely notched at the apex. Racemes are pendulous and are 
produced from the axils of the leaves. They are about a foot in length and carry 
a large number of closely packed, fragrant flowers usually more than an inch 
across. Sepals and petals white or creamy, spotted with amethyst, the wedge- 
shaped lip being a darker shade of the same colour. Flowers in Winter, Spring or 
early Summer, and lasts four to five weeks. 
266 
