SACCOLABIUM. 565 



S. CUrvifolium, Lindleij. — A handsome compact-habited 

 dwarf-growing species, with a short erect stem from six inches 

 to a foot in height, clothed with distichous Unear acutely 

 praemorse deflexed light green channelled leaves, and bearing 

 erect axillary racemes of small crowded cinnabar red flowers. 

 It is a free-flowering kind, and blooms in May and June. It 

 will thrive well on a block suspended from the roof. — East 

 Indies. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 5326 (as miniatum — f. Batem.) ; Batem., 2nd Cent. 

 Orch. PI., t. 130; Illust. Hort., t. 493 j Orchid Album, iii. t. 107; Puydt, 

 Les Orch., t. 38. 



S. CUryifolium luteum, Hort. — A somewhat rare plant, in 

 habit resembling the preceding ; the flowers, however, instead 

 of being orange-scarlet, are clear yellow, which renders it very 

 distinct from the ordinary form. — Moulmein. 



S. furcatum, Hort. — A distinct and fine species, which 

 grows somewhat slowly, and has stout leaves about eight 

 inches long. The flowers of this are more laxly set on the 

 spike than in S. guttatum, and are of a white colour spotted 

 with rose. It blooms during July and August, and continues 

 in perfection three weeks. — India ; Java. 



S. giganteuiQ, Lindley. — A very beautiful free-blooming 

 species, which has deliciously sweet-scented flowers ; it 

 blooms in winter, and will last in full beauty for six weeks 

 during the dull weather of that season. The stem is short, 

 erect ; and the broadly lorate obliquely bilobed leaves, about a 

 foot long and three inches in width, are stout in texture, and 

 streaked on the surface. The flowers are produced in long 

 dense drooping racemes from the axils of the leaves, the 

 sepals and petals being white spotted with amethyst, the 

 wedge-shaped dilated lip of a beautiful mauve-violet. The 

 column is greenish. — Burmah. 



¥lG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5635; Jennings, Orch., t. 8; Flore des Serres, tt. 

 1765—6 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 66. 



Syn, — Vanda densijlora. 



S. giganteuin illustre, Bchh. /. — A splendid variety of the 

 old favourite *S'. yvjanteum, in which the leaves are longer and 

 broader, and have more prominent veins ; the raceme of 

 flowers is longer, the individual flowers are larger, and also 

 set more loosely on the rachis, the colours are richer, the 

 ots at the tip of the sepals and petals are larger, and the 

 lip is altogether of a richer brighter hue. In other respects 



