i 



84 



wall, with no protection whatever. Of these, however, the 

 spikes are not yet so fully developed. Some specimens of 

 that very fine Satyrium, the '* carneum," have also flowered 

 (though very pale in colour) in garden pots of bog earth, 

 exposed as in the case of the S. candidum ; some have come 

 to very handsome heads, though far inferior to what they do 

 with a very little care in South Africa, where specimens 

 have been obtained with 120 or more flowers in the spike. 



'' The Satyrium papillosum was brought over in a box 

 of Cape soil in a growing state, and though generally ex- 

 posed, in London, has been occasionally brought in doors in 

 cold nights ; and, since the flower-stalks have become fully 

 developed, has been entirely kept in the house, and some- 

 times placed near a fire. 



" Satyrium chrysostachyum (a fine orange-flowered kind) 

 similarly imported, has grown well and gone through its 

 course, but without throwing up a single flower-stalk. It is 

 now dormant, but the new tubers are satisfactorily formed, 

 and promise well for next year." 



W . 



w ^ 



155. SATYRIUM carneum. 



r 



Brown in kort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 196 



This 



IS 



the 



y 



fin 



ded 



species alluded to by Sir Jol 



It has been well fissured 



by 



Herschel in the previous n 



the Botanical Magazine, t. 1512. In herbaria it'^is very 



rare. 



I h 



only 



seen one wild specimen, collected 



Dreg 



dy hills about Groenevalei, at the Cape of Good Hope, by 



It bears 



g 



flowers tinged with pink, and is 



oblong, dense spikes of whitish 



m 



all 



pects a beautifi 



plant. It is not a little singular that so conspicuous a'species 

 should have been overlooked by all the writers upon the 

 South African Flora. 



m 



4 



156. DENDROBIUM denudans. 



Don Prodr.fl. nep. 34. Gen. et Sp. Orch, p. 84. 



Th 



Devonsl 



IS species was 



ed 



His Grace the Duke of 



ire upon Mr. Gibson's return from his Ind 

 d having Been subsequently imparted to otl 



