SACCOLABIUM. 5G3 



petals are ovate, and the lip linear with a long compressed 

 slender spur. This plant will succeed on a block, or in a 

 basket with moss, and remains in beauty three weeks.- — 

 India: Sylhet, SikJcim. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5595 ; Batem., 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 186 ; Sertum 

 Orck., t. 17 ; Orchid Album, iv. t. 191 ; Paxton, Mag. But , xiii. 49, with tab. ; 

 Wight, Icon. PI. Ind., t. 1673. 



Sin. — S. rubrum. 



S. ampullaceum moulmeineiise, Hort. — A superb variety 

 of the preceding, than which it is somewhat more robust in 

 growth ; the leaves are spotted on both sides with dull brown, 

 the flower spike is longer and denser, and the flowers are 

 larger, of a uniform rich deep rose. — Moidmein. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., t. 393 (roseum). 



S. bellinum, Echb. f. — A very pretty dwarf species, in the 

 way of S. calceohire, with short erect stems, clothed with 

 evergreen distichous lorate obliquely bifid leaves, and decurved 

 peduncles bearing a compact corymb of elegant flowers, which 

 are considerably larger than those of S. calceohire. The oblong 

 sepals and petals are straw- colour blotched with large patches 

 of dark brown, and the saccate lip is fleshy, white with mauve- 

 purple spots, having on each side a large cushion of filiform 

 processes, yellow in the centre, and there marked with spots 

 of bright red. It flowers in February and March, lasting 

 some time in beauty. — Burmah. 

 Fig. — Orchid Album, iv. t. 156. 



S. Berkeley!, Fichb. f. — A beautiful species of the Rhyn- 

 chostylis group, the leaves of which are prasmorse, and the- 

 flowers large, loosely disposed on the raceme ; they are white 

 striped and spotted with amethyst, the anterior blade of the 

 lip, which is acute and not bilobed, amethyst. — ? Andaman 

 Islands. 



S. bigibbum, Rchb. f. — This very pretty species is at pre- 

 sent quite rare. It is a small close-growing plant, with very 

 short stems, bearing persistent linear-oblong bifid bright 

 green leaves, about four inches long, and short-stalked droop- 

 ing subcorymbose racemes, bearing about eight of its curious 

 flowers, of which the spathulate sepals and petals are pale 

 yellow, and the remarkable hp is triangular, white, with a very 

 broad blunt spur, the centre yellow and the edge prettily 

 frilled. It blooms about November. — Rangoon; 2 Arracan. 

 Fig.— Bat. Mag., t. 5767. 



