supplementary to Enc. of Plants, and Hort. Brit. 109 



*SACCOLA'*BIUM Elume. {Saccus, a bag, labium, a lip ; labellum with a bag) 



papillbsum Liridl. pimpled ^ E] or 1 au.s W.spot India 1828 ? D p.potsh Eot. reg. 1552 



" The genus Saccolabium consists of a large number of caulescent epi- 

 phytal species inhabiting the continent and archipelago of India. It 

 comprehends some of the most interesting and beautiful of the tribe, all of 

 which are cultivated, without difficulty, by being suspended in pots filled 

 with potsherds, intermixed with a little earth, from the back wall of a 

 damp and hot stove." fe. papillosum has its flowers white, spotted with 

 yellow and purple. It was introduced to the Horticultural Society's Gar- 

 den, by Dr. Wallich. (Bot. Reg., Jan. 1833.) 



CCXL. OrcMdecB § EpidendrecB. 



255L EPIDE'NDRUM. [3209 



227430! Harrisoiw> Hook. Mrs. Harrison's ^ E] or 1 ... Pa.G.Wsh Brazil 1830? D p.r.w Bot. mag. 



" This is a fine and very distinct species, allied in size and general mode 

 of growth to E. nutans, but very different in the form of the labellum. . . . 

 Flowers large, of a pale, delicate green, whitish in the centre, arranged in 

 a corymb-like raceme." (Bot. Mag., Jan. 1833.) 



CCXLII. Maranidcex. 



3. CALA'^THEA. 

 51a orbiculata B. C. round-lvd £ E] or 2? au.s Y W.Indies? 1830. D l.p Bot. cab. 1879 



" We received this fine plant, in 1830, from the Leyden Garden : it is 

 probably a native of the West Indies, and requires constant preservation 

 in the stove." (JBof. Cab., Dec.) We are not absolutely certain whether 

 the specific name is meant to express the figure of the head of flowers, or 

 that of the fine foliage, but we have concluded for the latter. 



CCXL VII. Asphadelece. 



1054. SCI'LLA. 

 8816a ? villbsa Ve.if. vUlous-lvd. ^ A or ^ ... 1,1 Tripoli 1831. O p.l Bot. mag. 3211 



" Specimens of this pretty little plant, which, no doubt, will bear culti- 

 vation in a warm border in the open air, I received from my friend. Dr. 

 Dickson, in 1831, who had gathered them in the neighbourhood of Tripoli. 

 Among the specimens, some of the bulbs yet retained life : these were 

 planted in the stove, at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and flowered 

 there in November, 1832." {Dr.Grakam, in Bot. Mag., Jan. 1833.) 



Mr. Haworth has, in a late number of Taylor's Philosophical Magazine, 

 presented some useful information on species of the genus iScilla, of which 

 the following is the amount : — iS'. plumbea Bot. Beg., t. 1355., is the same 

 as S. hyacmthmdes Linn, and Bot. Mag., t. 1140. »S'cilla esculenta 

 Bot. Mag., t. 1574., must be very different from, and not even of the 

 same genus as, the Cavmssia esculenta Bot. Keg., t. 1486. S. unifolia L., 

 S, pumila Brot. (monophylla Link), and S. pumila Bot. Mag., t. 3023., 

 are the same plant. Mr. Haworth distinguishes, by the relative length of 

 their bracteas the S. peruviana of Linnseus's herbarium, and that figured 

 in Bot. Mag., t. 749., into two species : to the latter he applies the name 

 of prgebractekta, retaining the name of peruviana for the plant of Linnaeus. 



1078. UVIA.EA Cav. 

 t8y78 biflura Cav. two-flowered Ai _AJ or 1| au V^ Mexico 1826. D s.l Bot. reg. 1555 



Already in Hort. Brit., p. 137., but less accurately than as here given. 

 It is a most charming plant, with rushy leaves, and a rushy scape, sur- 

 mounted by an umbel of from two to four, long-peduncled, erect, salver- 

 shaped blossoms ; the tube of each of which is more than half an inch long, 

 and the border, of six segments, spreads flatly to the width of 2 in. The 

 segments, on their upper or inward side, are as white as snow, on their 

 outside greenish, and, when once expanded, remain so through many days, 

 not closing up at nights, in the manner of the ornithogalums. M. biflora 

 is from the mountainous parts of Mexico ; and, planted out in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden, in a cold pit facing the south, from which the 

 frost is just excluded in winter, it flowered beautifully in August last. The 



