SACCOLABIUM AMPULLACEUM. 
[Pirate 191.] 
Native of Moulmein. 
Epiphytal. Stems short, erect, thickly furnished with distichous leaves, equitant 
at the base. Leaves short, linear-ligulate, channelled, obliquely truncate at the apex, 
pale green, dotted with purple. Peduncles short, axillary, green, bearing dense erect 
racemes three to four inches long, the pedicels and ovaries pale rose-coloured, 
hexagonal, with minute bracts at the base. lowers crowded, delicate magenta-rose, 
with white centre, three-fourths of an inch across, the perianth segments spreading 
and somewhat concave; sepals, the dorsal one obovate, incurved, entire, of a pleasant 
tint of magenta-rose, the lateral ones slightly oblique; petals similar to the sepals 
in size, form, and colour; lip with a pale rose-coloured blunt cylindrical spur as long 
as the petals, the mouth of which is white, and is produced on the front side into a 
linear bluntly acute lamina, which is rose-coloured like the rest of the flower; at 
the mouth of the tube in front are two little rounded protuberances, whilst at the 
back are two flatly conical erect processes; the side lobes are flat, bluntly conical, 
one placed on each side the tube; the spur is twice as long as the lip. Colwmn 
short, tinted with rose, cylindrical, the stigmatic hollow occupying the whole of one 
side; anther case brownish yellow. 
SAccoLABIUM AMPULLACEUM, Lindley, in Wallich’s. Catalogue, No. 7307; Id., 
Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 17. 
SaccoLaBium RuBRUM, Lindley, in Wallich’s Catalogue, No. 7310; Jd., Genera 
and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 222; Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales 
Botanices Systematice, vi., 884. ; 
This small species of Saccolabium is one of the most distinct of its genus, 
and remarkable for the rich colour of its blossoms, it is also a_ free-blooming 
species, and when successfully grown will well repay the cultivator for all the 
trouble he has bestowed upon it. There are other small-growing species of 
Saccolabium, two of which we have already figured in the Orchid Album. Some 
of these are very beautiful, and they take up but little space, for they do well 
when suspended from the roof of the Orchid house; they are, indeed, such general 
favourites when in bloom that we are surprised not to see them more freely and 
more widely cultivated. | 
We are indebted to W. Lee, Esq., Downside, Leatherhead, for the specimen 
represented in our drawing, which, it may be seen, represents a plant specially 
well bloomed for one of so small a size, and thus serves to illustrate its free- 
blooming qualities. 
