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SACCOLABIUM AMPULLACEUM. 
rose. Growing in the rustic manner Epiphytes are usually grown, and blooming, 
its effect, from the colour of its flowers, is novel and charming in the extreme. 
It may be attached to a block of wood, and a little turfy peat or some living 
mosses used in affixing it, to preserve its roots till it becomes established ; and, 
suspended in a favourable situation, should be left to fling its roots where it may, 
without their being molested. A high temperature, and an atmosphere saturated 
with moisture is necessary during the season of its growth ; when in a state of 
repose, a nice humid warmth is all that is required. 
Its increase is effected by simply detaching lateral or other shoots from the 
parent plant after they have formed roots. Saccolabium is from saccus, a bag, and 
labium , a lip ; the labellum of the flowers of this genus is pouch-shaped. 
