Refugium Botantcum.] [ October, 1872. 
TAB. 110. 
Tribe VANDER. 
Genus SaccouABium, Bl. 
S. micranruum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 220! (* Wall. Cat. 7300”’). 
Planta ratione generis mollicula, caule paucipollicari usque 
spithameo radicante, foliis latius angustius ligulatis ine- 
: qualiter obtuse bilobis, nunc obscure crenulatis cum apiculo, 
racemis porrectis axillaribus ima basi ananthis, ceterum densi- 
floris parvifloris, bracteis triangulis uninerviis, ovariis pedi- 
cellatis multo brevioribus, hinc margine minute erosulis, sepalis 
oblongis obtuse acutis, tepalis oblongis acutis duplo minoribus, 
labelli laciniis lateralibus abbreviatis quadratis erectis, lacinia 
media ligulata antice dilatata minute denticulata trilobula seu 
emarginata bilobula, callo magno tumido integro seu emar- 
ginato ante ostium calearis cylindraceo-conici obtusi, columna 
brevi crassa, androclinio vix marginato, rostello simpliciter 
acuto, anthera transverse ovata seu triangula, semper postice 
rotundata, antice acuta seu apiculata, polliniis subsphericis 
latere externo fissis, caudicula late triangula seu ligulata, sub 
polliniis utrinque obtusangulo dilatata, glandula triangula seu 
triloba. Ovaria viridia purpureo aspersa. Sepala et tepala 
et calcare rosea. Labellum intense purpureum uti anthera. 
Columna pallide rosea. 
This little plant was gathered by Dr. Wallich’s collectors in 
Nepal and Silhet. It appears to be spread very widely over the 
continent of India. My specimens from herb. Falconer! (distr. 
at Kew, 1864). ‘Tenasserim ex hb. Lindl.! Bootan, Griffith! 
Darjeeling, June and July, 1868, Mann.! (narrow-leaved variety). 
It appears to have appeared first in Europe in the excellent 
collection of Messrs. Loddiges! I have observed it very fre- 
quently in the garden of Consul Schiller and the Hamburgh 
Botanic Garden. There was at Consul Schiller’s garden a very 
pallid variety with scarcely any purple on the lip. I have also 
obtained a spike that represented a var. fasciata at its apex, 
mimicking, it may be said, a Celosia, yet to a very small degree, 
Director Linden introduced it from Assam, 
