SACCOLABIUM. 701 



flowers are produced in long dense drooping racemes from the axils of the 

 leaves, the sepals and petals being white spotted with amethyst, the wedge- 

 shaped dilated lip of a beautiful mauve-violet ; the column is greenish. — Bunnah. 



Fig.— Sot. Mag., t. 5fi35 ; Jennniga. Orch., t. 8; Flore Aes Serre: tt. 1765-6; 

 Orchid Album, ii. t. 56; L'OrcIiidojiIiile, 1886, p. 163 ; ReicUeribaeUa, i. t. 22 ; fcitch'.i 

 Man. Orch. PL, vii. p. 114. 



SyN. — Va7ida doisi flora. 



S. GIGANTEUM ILLUSTRE, Rchb.f.—A splendid variety of the old favourite 

 S. giganteum, in which the leaves are longer and broader, having more pro- 

 minent veins ; the raceme of flowers is longer, the individual flowers are larger, 

 and are set more loosely on the rachis ; the colours are richer, the spots at the 

 tip of the sepals and petals larger, and the lip is altogether of a richer brighter 

 hue ; in other respects it is similar to the Burmese variety. It flowers during 

 the winter months. — Cochin China. 



Fig. — L'lll. HoH., 3rd ser., t. 517 ; Lindenia, ii. t. 83. 



S. GUTTATUM, Lindl. — A. remarkablj' handsome species, which, according 

 to Reichenbach, forms one of many varieties included by him under the name 

 of Rhynchostylis retusa. The stems are short, furnished with distichous arcuate 

 leathery channelled leaves, 1 foot long, unequally truncate at the end, and of a 

 dark green colour ; the floral racemes are cylindraceous and arcuate, as long 

 as the leaves. It blossoms from May to August, and remains three or four weeks 

 in perfection, if removed to a cooler house, and kept free from dam.p. The 

 flowers are closely set, so as to form massive wreaths of blossoms ; the sepals 

 and petals are ovate ; the petals narrower, waxy white, spotted with deep rosy 

 purple ; the lip is small, its front lobe lanceolate inflexed, wholly purple, its 

 spur truncately conical compressed, pubescent inside. There are two or three 

 varieties of this species, which makes one of the finest of all plants for exhibition. 

 Some remarkable specimens of it were shown in the year 1860, with from 

 twenty to twenty-five spikes of flowers on each ; but it is most unusual to see 

 well-grown plants now-a-days. — India; Java. 



Fig.— £ot. Mag., t. 4108 ; Sot. Beg., t. 1443 ; Ptiydt, Les Orch., p. 227, f. 230 ; De 

 Vriese, Illus., t. 14 ; Gard. Chron., 1845. p. 364, with fipf. ; Id.. N.S., i. p. 219, f. 55 

 (specimen plant) ; Hart. Parad., ii. t. 3 ; Blumc, Taicll., t. 49 ; Hoolt. First Cent. Orcli. 

 PL, t.%1. 



Syn. — Aerides guttatum ; A. retvsnm; Epidendriim retti-mm ; Zimodorum retusum ; 

 lihyncostylis retusa guttata ; R. guttata; Sarcanthus guttatas. 



S. GUTTATUM GIGANTEUM, Hort.—A. magnificent variety of S. guttatum, 

 having the leaves longer and spotted ; the racemes are also much longer, and 

 the flowers more distinct in the markings. It makes a superb exhibition plant, 

 as it blooms in June and July, and wiU last three or four weeks in perfection. 

 — India. 



FlG.-rOrclndophilc, 1888, p. 273. 



S. GUTTATUM HOLFORDIANUM, Williams.— This splendid variety is one 

 of the finest yet obtained. The leaves are broader than those of the ordinary 

 form of 8. guttatum, and more praemorse at the ends ; the flower spikes are 

 also much larger and longer, and the flowers of a richer colour than in those of 



