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SACCOLABIUM AMPULLACEUM uot. 
THE AMPULLACEOUS SACCOLABIUM. 
SACCOLABIUM. Vide Lindenia, U1, p. 99. 
Saccolabium ampullaceum. Caule brevissimo, foliis crassissimis distichis’ ligulatis canaliculatis apice truncatis 
dentatis, racemis oblongis erectis foliis multo’ brevioribus, sepalis petalisque ovatis patentibus subaequalibus, labello 
angusto acuminato concavo calcare compresso pendulo duplo breviore. 
Saccolabium ampullaceum LinDL. in Sert. Orch., t, 17; Fourn. Linn. Soc., Il, p. 35; Paxt. Mag. Bot., XIII, 
P. 49; Bot. Mag., pl. 5595; Fl. Mag., pl. 393; WILL. Orch. Alb., IV, pl. 191; Hoox., Fl. Brit, Ind., VI, p. 64. 
| Aerides ampullaceum Roxs., Fl. Ind., Ul, p. 476. 
) accolabium ampullaceum is a native of Sylhet, where it was discovered in 
1813 by Roxpurcu; it was also found by Hooxer and Een in 
Sikkim, about 1100 to 3000 feet above the sea-level. ; 
a drawing belonging to the East Indian Company. It flowered a short time later 
at Chatsworth and in other collections, but it was not before 1865 that it became 
generally distributed in the gardens. 
It is a charming little plant, of dwarf habit, like S. Tint but 
giving a free and very pleasing display of flowers, which form a very dense oblong 
raceme ; they are individually provided with a slender spur, one time again as 
long as the flower. The colour is a bright rosy carmine; the column is pure white 
and the anther yellow. _ 
Being of dwarf habit, it may be advantageously treated in baskets or teak 
cylinders, hanging from the roof, and thrives well under a regular temperature of 
18 to 22° C., in a very moist and bright atmosphere. It requires scarcely shading, 
as it leaves are thick and leathery, but in summer the humidity of the house 
must be maintained to near the saturation point, and the compost always alive 
and moist. 
Le Saccolabium ampullaceum est originaire du Sylhet, od il fut découvert 
en 1813 par Roxsurcu; il a ete signalé par Hooxer et THomson, dans le 
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Sikkim, 4 une altitude de 350 a ‘Iooo meétres. 
Il fut figuré pour la premiére fois par Linpizy dans le Sertum Orchidearum, 
en 1838; cette planche était la copie d’un dessin appartenant A la East India 
It was first figured by D' Linney in 1838, in his Sertum Orchidearum, after 
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