DESCRIPTIVE LIST. 381 



Saocolabium. Lindley. Epiphyte. 



Name from saccus, a bag, and labium, a lip. 

 A. Saccolabium ampullaceum. Sylhet. Lind. Sert., 17. 



B. M., 5595. 

 Bat. 2d Cen., 186. 

 Pax. Mag., 13, 49. 



A slow-growing species, but of easy culture. Foliage 

 about five inches long and very thick. Flower-stalks 

 erect, shorter than the leaves ; flowers rosy pink, very 

 close set. Blooms in May. 



A. Saccolabium ampullaceum Moulmeinense. Moulmein. 



F. M, 393. 



A very beautiful variety. Foliage spotted with brown 

 on the under side. Flowers rich deep rose. 



B. Saccolabium bigibbum. Aracan . . . B. M., 5767. 

 A pretty small-growing species. Flowers on a short 



drooping spike, twelve or fifteen" in number, pale yellow j 

 lip white, with fringed edge. Blooms in autumn. 



A. Saccolabium Blumei. Java Pes., 21. 



Sert. O., 47. 

 I. H., 545. 



Sepals and petals beautiful violet and white ; lip a 

 deeper shade of the same color, with white tip. 



Saccolabium Blumei majus, a variety with larger flowers 

 and of stronger growth. Blooms in August and Septem- 

 ber. 



Saccolabium Blumei Dayi is a very free-flowering vari- 

 ety, with longer spikes. Flowers white, spotted with 

 purple. 



