SACCOLABIUM. 699 



S. BELLINUM, Bchh. /.—A very pretty dwarf species, in the way of 

 8. calceolare, with short erect stems, clothed with evergreen distichous lorate 

 obhquely bifid leaves, and decurved peduncles bearing a compact corymb of 

 elegant flowers, which are considerably larger than those oi S. calceolare. The 

 oblong sepals and petals are straw-colour, blotched with large patches of dark 

 brown, and the saccate lip is fleshy, white with mauve-purple spots, having 

 on each side a large cushion of flliform processes, yellow in the centre, and 

 there marked with spots of bright red. It flowers in February and March, 

 lasting some time in beauty. — Burmali. 



Fid.— Oi-cJdd Album, iv. 1. 156 ; The Garden, 1889, xxxv. p. 434, t. 700 : LbxUmia. vii. 

 t.330 ; Bot. Jl'iff., t. 7142 ; Veitch's Man. Orch. PI., vii. p. 112. 



S. BERKELEY!, Rclib. f. — ^A beautiful species of the Bhynchostylis group, 

 the leaves of which are praemorse, and the flowers large, loosely disposed on 

 the raceme ; they are white, striped and spotted with amethyst, the anterior 

 blade of the lip, which is acute and not bilobed, amethyst. — Andaman 

 Islands (?) 



S. BIGIBBUM, Biclib.f. — This very pretty species is at present quite rare. 

 It is a small close-growing plant, with very short stems, bearing persistent 

 linear-oblong bifid bright green leaves, about 4 inches long, and short-stalked 

 drooping sub-corymbose racemes, bearing about eight tff its curious flowers, of 

 which the spathulate sepals and petals are pale yellow, and the remarkable lip 

 is triangular, white, with a very broad blunt spur, the centre yellow and the 

 edge prettily frilled. It blooms about November. — Rangoon; Arracan (?) 



Fig.— Sot. Mag., t. 5767. 



S. BLUMEI, Lindl. — A beautiful distinct species, with a short erect densely 

 leafy stem, long arcuate distichous lorate persistent channelled leaves, un- 

 equally truncate at the ends, bright green, with a few parallel lines of dark 

 green, extending from base to apex, on the under side. The flowers grow in 

 dense pendulous cylindrical axillary racemes, the ovate sepals and oblong petals 

 white, tinted with rose and dotted with magenta, and. the lip with a com- 

 pressed bluntish spur, and a roundish oblong lamina, ciliated, recurved, and 

 emarginate at the tip, of a soft magenta rose. These flowers are produced in 

 July and August, and last three weeks in perfection. — India ; Java. 



Fig. — Sertum Orcli., t. 47 ; WigM., Icon. PI. J«(?., t. 1745 (guttattim—t. Rchb.) ; 

 Orchid Album, iv. t. 169 ; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 37 ; Gard. Chron., N.S., xxiii. p. 573, 

 fig. 105. 



Stn. — Saccolabium Rhaedii ; Rhynchostylis rctusa 2^raemorsa ; Ae rides praemorsum. 



S. BLUMEI MAJUS, Bclib. f. — A charming variety of S. Blumei, in which 

 the colours of the flowers are much the same as in the preceding plant, but the 

 whole plant is of much stronger growth, and the flowers and flower spikes are 

 much larger; the leaves are longitudinally banded with streaks of light and 

 dark green on both surfaces. — Muulmein. 



FlQ.—Pescatorea, t. 21 ; Z'lll. JToii., t. 545. 



S. BLUMEI RUSSELLIANUM, Williams.— This is the very finest form of the 

 8. Blumei section we have ever seen. The spike of flowers is very long and 



