SACCOLABIUM. 703 



end, and the racemes are long and dense, the flowers white, thinly spotted with 

 lilac. It blooms in May and June, and lasts three weeks in perfection. A slow- 

 growing kind, which makes a fine exhibition plant. There has been a variety 

 imported which is freer in growth, produces much finer spikes, and is altogether 

 superior to the form first introduced. — Malabar. 



Fig. — Gard. Mag. JSot., i. p. 253, with fig. ; Flore des Seri'cs, vii. p. 92, with fig. 



S. RETUSUM, Sort. — A fine handsome free-growing form, and probably 

 like the last one of the many varieties of Bhyncliostylis retusa indicated by 

 Ereichenbach when treating of that species. It is more robust in habit than 

 most other forms, blooms in May and June, and produces in great abundance 

 long racemes of flowers, which are waxy white beautifully spotted with pink. 

 These continue in perfection three or four weeks. It is a useful plant, and one 

 which comes into bloom, rather earlier than any of the other kinds. — Java. 



Fig. — Flore des Serres, tt. 1463-4 ; Vcitch's Man. Orch. PL, vii. p. 55. 

 Syji. — RhyiicJwstyHs retusa. 



S. RHEEDIl.-See S. Blumei. 



S. RUBRUM — See S. ampullacetjm. 



S. TURNERI, Williams. — This is the flnest Saccolahium which has come 

 under our notice. The leaves are about 1 foot long, and IJ inch broad, the end 

 of the leaf having a distinct praemorse termination; the floral racemes are 

 fully 2 feet long, and are densely covered with its beautiful lilac-spotted flowers. 

 It is much handsomer than the varieties of S. gwttatum, and was first flowered 

 by W. Turner, Esq., of Winsford, and exhibited by him under the name of 

 S. praemorsuin, but it is far superior to that species, both in the brilliant 

 colouring of its flowers, and the great length of its spikes. The original plant 

 was exhibited at the Manchester Show in June, 1878, and bore four spikes, each 

 2 feet in length, of its handsome blossoms ; it was then awarded the first prize 

 as a specimen Orchid, and was the admiration of every one who saw it. It 

 flowers in June. — India. 



S. VIOLACEUM, Lindl. — This magnificent species is one of those referred by 

 some authors to the genus Uhyncliostylis of Blume. The stems are erect, 

 stoutish, thickly clothed with the recurved distichous foliage ; the leaves are a 

 foot or more in length, and 2 inches in breadth, of a rich deep green, somewhat 

 striated with lines of a deeper colour ; from the leaf-axils are produced the 

 showy racemes, 12 to 15 inches in length, in which the fiowers are very numerous, 

 the sepals and petals pure white, spotted with mauve, and the lip dark mauve, 

 marked with deeper coloured lines. It generally blooms in January and 

 February, and lasts four or five weeks in perfection if kept from the damp. 

 The plant succeeds in a pot well drained, and surfaced with a little growing 

 sphagnum moss. — Manilla. 



Fig.— War)ier, Set. Orch. PI., i. t. 14 ; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 39 (poor). 



Syif. — Vanda violacea; Ithynchostylis nolacea. 



S. VIOLACEUM HARRISONIANUM, Williams.— A. beautiful white-flowered 

 variety of S. violaceum. It is a stout-growing plant, with erect stems, bearing 

 distichous leaves, which are broadly oblong, keeled beneath, striated, and 



