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Nursery, at Sfc, John's Wood, who gave no locality. In the Botanical 

 Magazine, sub. t. 6222, it is stated, on the authority of the late 

 Professor Reichenbach, to have been in Europe ever since 1862. 

 It has since been gathered in north-west Borneo by Curtis^ who 

 informs us that it prefers the neighbourhood of rivers and streams, 

 where it grows on trees of Lagerstroemia indica, generally in partial 

 shade, but sometimes fully exposed. In its native home it flowers 

 very freely, and one of the prettiest floral sights he met with in 

 that region was a dead, leafless tree overhanging a stream covered 

 with Saccolabium Hendersonianum in full bloom. 



S. miniatum. 



Stem very short. Leaves linear, 3 — 4 inches long, strongly keeled 

 beneath, imbricate at base, obliquely truncate, or unequally two-lobed at 

 apex. Racemes erect, as long as the leaves, 10 — 15 flowered. Flowers 

 about f inch in diameter, bright orange-red ; sepals and petals ovate- 

 oblong, acute; lip linear-oblong, obtuse, recurved, produced at the base 

 into a slender cylindric spur longe]- than the limb, on each side of the 

 aperture of which are two small auricles. Column very short; anther 

 purple. 



Saccolabium miniatum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, sub. t. 26. Id. t. 58. Miquel 

 Fl. Ind. bat. III. p. 692. ' 



Introduced by us from Java in 1846 through Thomas Lobb, 

 but now very rarely seen in the orchid collections of this country. 

 It is very near Saccolabium carvi folium, from which it is chiefly 

 distinguished by its smaller size, shorter and narrower leaves, and 

 its shorter racemes of smaller flowers with difierently shaped 

 perianth segments. 



S. violaceum. 



Stem as thick as a man's little finger, rarely exceeding 10 — 15 

 inches high under cultivation. Leaves broadly strap-shaped, decurved, 

 very leathery, 9 — 12 inches long, 1 — 1| inch broad, imbricate at base, 

 unequally bi-lobed at apex, with pale longitudinal striations beneath. 

 Racemes pendulous, shorter than the leaves, many flowered. 

 Flowers fragrant, about an inch in diameter, on short grooved pedicels ; 

 sepals oval-oblong, the lateral two broader than the dorsal one ; petals 

 similar but narrower; both sepals and petals white spotted with 

 amethyst-purple ; lip amethyst-purple, oblong, undulate, with a small 

 oblong lobule at the apex, depressed at the middle, below which are 



