SACCOLABIUM. 567 



S. Hendersonianuni, Bchb. f. — This small compact-growiug 

 species is very distinct, and makes a pretty subject either for 

 a basket or block. The hgulate keeled distichous leaves are 

 about six inches long, of a lively green ; and the erect racemes 

 are produced from the axils of the leaves, and bear numerous 

 flowers, which are of a beautiful rose colour, with a compressed 

 white lip, reduced to little besides the spur. R. H. Measures, 

 Esq., of Streatham, grows this plant to great perfection, and 

 flowers it freely. — Borneo. 



FJG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6222. 



S. Huttoni. — See Aerides Thibautianum, 



S. miniatum, Lbulley. — A pretty distinct small-growing 

 Orchid, not so showy as some of the other species, but well 

 deserving attention on account of its distinct colour. It has 

 short erect stems, clothed with lorate channelled distichous 

 leaves obliquely truncate at the apex, and short spreading 

 cylindraceous racemes of small but gay red-orange flowers, 

 which are produced in March and April, and last three weeks 

 in beauty. This will do well on a block of wood without 

 moss. A variety called S. miniatum citrinuin, said to be 

 from the Philippine Islands, has the flowers of a lemon yellow 

 with a dark centre, which probably indicates the mouth of the 

 spur. — Java. 



'SlG.—Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 58. 



S. prsemorsuin, Hart. — A very lovely form, which would 

 appear to be one of the many variations referred to by 

 Eeichenbach, under his Rhynchostylis retusa. The leaves 

 are stout and fleshy, broad, dark green, prsemorse at the end, 

 and the racemes are long and dense, the flowers white, thinly 

 spotted with lilac. It blooms in May and June, and lasts 

 three weeks in perfection. A slow-growing kind, which 

 makes a fine exhibition plant. There has been a variety 

 imported which is freer in growth, produces much finer 

 spikes, and is altogether superior to the form first introduced. 

 — Malabar. 



¥lQ.—Gard. Mag. Bof., i. 253, with fig.; Flore des Serres, vii. 92, 

 with fig. 



S. retusum, Hort. — A fine handsome free-growing form, 

 and probably like the last one of the many varieties of Bhyn- 

 vhostylis retusa indicated by Eeichenbach when treating of 

 this species. It is more robust in habit than most other 



