SACCOLABIUM. Ill 



a little the narrowest ; lip a sub-globose almost hemispheric sac that is 



bright yellow spotted with red, and a small triangular whitish blade 



fringed with glandular hairs. Column very short, stained with pale 



purple. 



Saccolabium acutifolium, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Oicli. p. 223 (1832). Id. S<'.rt. Orch. 

 Frontisp. No. 2. Id. in Jouru. Linn. Soc. III. p. 33. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 

 p. 61. S. denticulatum, Paxt. Mmj. Bot. VII. p. 145 (1840). Bot. Mag. t. 4772. 



A native of Sikkina and the Khasia Hills, whence it is occasion- 

 ally imported with other orchids. Jt was first cultivated by the 

 Rev. J. Clowes^ of Broughton Hall near Manchester, about the year 

 1837, and very shortly afterwards it was introduced to Chatsworth 

 by Gibson. It much resembles on superficial view a miniature 

 Saccolabium bellinum, to which species it is inferior in beauty. 

 It is easily distinguished among the cultivated Saccolabiums by its 

 sharply pointed leaves that are often obliquely twisted. 



S, ampuUaceiun. 



Stems short, rarely exceeding 6 inclies high under cultivation. 



Leaves liueardigulate, 5 — 6 inches long, channelled above, keeled 



l)eneath, obli(piely truncate and irregularly toothed at the apex. 



Racemes erect, shorter than the leaves. Flowers crowded, about f 



inch in diameter, bright rose-carmine, the column white and anther 



yellow ; sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, obovate, spreading • 



lip shorter than the other segments, linear, reflexed, produced at 



the base into a cylindric, compressed spur longer than the blade 



at the entrance of which are two rounded protuberances. 



Saccolabium ampuUaceum. Lindl. Scrt. Orch. t. 17 (1838). Id. in Journ. Linn 



Soc. III. p. 35. Paxt. Mag. Bot. XIII. p. 49. Bot. Mag. t. 5595. Fl. Mag. t. 393 



(roseum). Williams' Orch. Alb. IV. t. 191. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 64. 

 Aerides ampullaceum, Roxb. Fl. ind. III. p. 476(1832). 



This pretty Saccolabium became known to science in the early 



part of the present centuiy through Dr. Roxburgh, one of whose 



collectors detected it in Sylhet some time prior to 1814, the date of 



Dr. Roxburgh's death. It was subsequently gathered by various 



Indian botanical explorers in the tropical Himalaya, along which it 



occurs at 1,000 — 3,000 feet elevation from Nepal eastwards. It has 



also been reported from Burmah and Tenasserim. The earliest 



notice of it as a horticultural plant occurs in Paxton's Magazine of 



Botany for 1847, where is figured one of the plants brought by 



Gibson from the foot of the Khasia Hills to Chatsworth in 1837. 



Dr. Lindley's plate in the Sertum Orchidaceum, although published 



nearly ten years earlier, was copied from a drawing in the possession 



of the East India Company by a native artist. Saccolabium ampullaceum 



