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SACCOLABIUM. 



first became generally distributed among the orchid collections of this 

 country through an importation of Messrs. Low and Co. about the 

 year 1865. 



S. bellinum. 



Stems but a few inches higli. Leaves strap-shaped, 7 — 12 inches long, 

 bi-lobate at the apex. Peduncles stoutish, 3 — 4 inches long, recurved, 

 few flowered. Flowers sub-corymbose, somewhat crowded, fleshy, 1^ inch 

 in diameter ; sepals and petals spreading and slightly incurved, similar 

 and sub-equal, obovate-oblong, yellow blotched with blackish purple ; lip 



Saccolabium bellinum. 



a sub-globose sac and semi-lunate blade, the sac white with a few purple 



spots on the basal concave side, and with a large ochreous blotch in the 



centre ; the blade two-lobed, papillose or pubescent above, fimbriate- 



denticulate at the margin, whitish with an orange-yellow disk, spotted 



with purple. Cokimn very short ; anther with a short, broad beak. 



Saccolabium bellinum, Echb. in Gard. Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 174. Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. IV. t. 156. Bot. Mag. t. 7142. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 61. 



Discovered in 1873 by Boxall in Burmah, and introduced by 



Messrs. Low and Co. It is the most generally cultivated of the 



