SACCOLABIUM BLUMEI. 
[Pirate 169. ] 
Native of Java and India. 
piphytal. Stems short, erect, densely leafy. Leaves evergreen, distichous, 
channelled, arcuate, elongate lorate, obliquely truncate at the apex, of a brig 
green, with a few parallel lines of dark green on the under surface. Peduncles 
axillary, supporting dense pendulous cylindrical racemes as long as the leaves. 
Flowers small but crowded, the inflorescence having altogether a very pleasing effect 
from its plume-like character; sepals ovate, white or slightly tinted with rose, and 
dotted with magenta; petals somewhat narrower, oblong, the colours and markings 
like those of the sepals; lip with a compressed bluntish spur, pubescent within, 
elbowed, the lamina roundish oblong, ciliated, recurved and emarginate at the tip, 
costate on both surfaces, of a soft pleasing shade of deep magenta-rose, which Poe 
a bright and handsome appearance to the plants. Column small, white, beaked. 
Saccotasium Buiumet, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1841, misc. 115; Jd., Sertwm 
Oreha eum, t. 47; Illustration Horticole, t. 545 (var. majus); Pescatorea, t. 21 
(var. majus). 
RaYNCHOSTYLIS RETUSA, Blume, Bijdragen, 286, “ tabellen ix” 
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The species of Saccolabium rank among the finest of our East Indian Orchids. 
Their compact habit of growth, their graceful drooping foliage, and their charming 
arching plume-like spikes of blossoms have such a noble and striking appearance as 
to win for them general favour. The species which we now figure is a most 
distinct and beautiful one, of which there are many varieties, differing in the size 
and colouring of their flowers and the length of their flower-spikes, and also in the 
dimensions of their foliage. We hope to figure some of these different varieties: as 
time passes on, but we offer this plate as an illustration of the type of the species. 
Our drawing was taken from a fine plant that produced several spikes eighteen inches 
im Tength, in the collection of C. J. Partington, Esq., Heaton House, Cheshunt. 
plant, as well as many others, are grown remarkably well under the care of 
Mr. Searing, the gardener. | 
| Saccolabiwm Blumet is an evergreen species, with dark green foliage, of a 
pendulous character, about ten inches in length. The racemes of flowers proceed 
from the axils of the leaves on opposite sides, and when the plants are in vigorous 
white, they extend to the length of eighteen or twenty inches; the flowers are 
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spotted with rosy purple, the lip bright rosy purple. It flowers during 
