SACCOLABIUM VIOLACEUM HARRISONIANUM. 
[PLATE 236. ] 
Native of Pulo Copang. 
Epiphytal. Stem short, stout, erect. Leaves distichously arranged, broadly oblong, 
keeled beneath, deeply emarginate, so as to become unequally bilobed at the apex, stri- 
ated, of a dark green colour. Scape axillary produced from the axil of the matured 
leaves, and bearing a dense drooping plume-like raceme, which is sometimes as much as 
two feet long. lowers about an inch across, crowded, white with a green column, 
remarkably sweet-scented; sepals obovate apiculate, the dorsal one arching incurved, 
the lateral ones curving downward sideways ; petals smaller, spreading, obovate or 
subspathulate, apiculate; lip obovate- panduriform, broader than the petals, with an 
obconial obtuse spur behind, and a blunt thick apiculus at the tip, white, as is the 
rest of the flower, the disk bearing a solitary elevated line. Column green, forming 
a distinct eye to the otherwise colourless blossoms. 
: SACCOLABIUM vioLAcEUM Harrisontanum, Williams, Orehid-Grower’s Manual, 6 
ed., 568. : 
SACCOLABIUM Harrisontanum, Low; Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 5433; Flore 
des Serres, t. 2412 
There are but few white-flowered Saccolabiums known. That which we are now . 
about to bring under notice, Saccolabium violaceum Harrisonianum is one of a 
most beautiful and distinct character. The specimen from which our illustration 
was derived was certainly a wonderful plant, bearing eight flower spikes of large size 
and great length, as may be seen from our figure. We have never before met with 
such a massive specimen as this, which was imported by the Messrs. Sander & Co., of 
St. Albans, and sold to W. Lee, Esq., of Downside. We expect such noble specimens 
‘re rare, even in their native country, for we have become accustomed to see plants with 
one or two spikes of blossoms (as has also been the case with Saccolabium violaceum), 
there being very few really good massive plants brought over, which is to be regretted, 
for it is a most beautiful winter-flowering Orchid. The Saccolabium giganteum of 
Lindley, which has been ficured in our second volume, plate 56, is much in the way 
of S. violaceum. Of S. gigantewm we have had large specimens, three feet in height, 
bearing from twenty to thirty flower spikes, which come into bloom at the same 
time as those of ¥ violaceum. 
The Specimen from which our drawing was taken was grown in the well-known 
collection of W. Lee, Esq., Downside, Leatherhead, where the plant was flourishing 
ma basket suspended from the roof, in which position it produced a grand effect, 
