SACCOLABIUM BELLINUM. 
: [PLATE 156. ] 
Native of Burmah. 
Kpiphytal. Stems short, erect, clothed with persistent distichous pale green leaves, 
and throwing out aérial roots at intervals. Leaves evergreen, channelled, lorate 
acuminate, obliquely bifid at. the apex, both points being entire and acute. Peduneles 
short, decurved, issuing from opposite the alternate leaves, and terminating in a 
compact corymb of small but remarkably elegant blossoms. Flowers about one and 
a half inch across, prettily spotted; the hollow base less deep than in S. calceolare, 
which this plant closely resembles, except that the parts are everywhere larger ; 
sepals obovate-oblong obtuse, straw-coloured, with large dark brown blotches almost 
wholly covering the surface: petals oblong obtuse, straw yellow, marked with brown 
spots, rather smaller than those on the sepals; lip about an inch long, fleshy, with 
a semicupular basilar sac, the side lobes semi-oblong, transverse, erect, whitish, with 
red spots; the front lobe transversely triangular, its margins strongly serrated, and 
having on each side a large cushion of filiform processes; white, with a yellow 
central spot, and marked with bright red blotches. Column short, white, with 
mauve-purple blotches. 
SACCOLABIUM BELLINUM, [Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., xxi., 174. 
The pretty small-growing Saccolabium bellinum is deserving of a place in every 
collection where East Indian Orchids are cultivated. It occupies but little space, 
and is a free-blooming species, as may be seen by glancing at the small specimen 
we now represent. There are several other small-growing kinds, such as S. bigibbum, 
S. calceolare, &e. We consider S. bellinum superior to those kinds, the flowers 
being larger and more showy, although the others are pretty and well worth 
cultivating. 
These are very different from the large-growing kinds, such as S. guttatum, 
S. Blumei, and others, that produce the magnificent spikes familiar at our flower 
shows, and which will be figured in their turn. 
Our artist made the drawing of the present species, from a plant in the well- 
known collection of W. Lee, Esq., Downside, Leatherhead. 
Saccolabium bellinum is an evergreen species, with light green foliage, about 
six inches long. The long sepals and petals are yellow, heavily spotted with brown ; 
the lip white, sac-shaped, hairy, and yellow inside, marked with purple-rose at the 
base. It blooms in February and March, and lasts some time in beauty. 
Mr. Woolford grows this species in the East India house, suspended near the 
roof in a basket, with sphagnum moss and sufficient drainage. It will thrive well 
