The plant is unusually soft for its genus. Stem a few inches 
up to a span high with beautiful aérial roots. Leaves ligulate, 
unequally bilobed, the lobes now and then minutely crenulate, 
with a small point in the sinus between the two. Racemes bent 
forward or hanging down, without flowers at the very base, 
crowded with small flowers in the other parts. Bracts triangular, 
one-nerved, much shorter than the stalked ovaries, now and then 
minutely toothed at their margin. Sepals oblong, bluntly acute. 
Tepals of nearly the same shape, smaller, shorter. Lateral 
lacinie of lip quadrate, short, upright; middle lacinra ligulate, 
much broader, three-lobed or emarginate bilobed at its anterior 
part, with many small toothlets; at its base before the mouth of 
the spur a great tumid, sometimes emarginate, callus. Spur 
cylindrical-conoid, blunt, shorter than the blade of the lip, a 
little compressed, entirely free from any callosities, septa, neck 
Column short, stout; androclinium with a very minute border ; 
rostellum acute; anther transverse ovate or triangular, rounded at 
the base, acute on the anterior side; pollinia nearly globose, 
slit on the lower outside; caudicle ligulate or ligulate with two 
obtusangular dilatations below the pollinia; glandule blunt 
triangular or blunt three-lobed. Ovaries green with a purplish 
hue. Sepals, tepals, lip and column rosy. Lip and anther-case 
dark purple. 
Materials :—Frequent inspection of Dr. Lindley’s types; my 
own sketches and descriptions made at various times from the 
living plant; twenty-six herbarium specimens. 
Tab. 110.—The plant. 1, side view of flower +; 2, front view of 
ditto +; 3, side view of ditto, sepals and tepals cut +. 
A very pretty and interesting species of Saccolabium, with 
good foliage and long spikes of small pink and roseate flowers. 
It should be treated as recommended for Sarcanthus laxus, 
Tab. 109. I received my plant, which grows freely, from 
Mons. J. Linden, of Brussels, marked as coming from Assam.— 
W.W.S. 
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