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SATYRIUM pustulatum. 
Pustular Satyrium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. ORCHIDACES, $ OPHRYDEA. 
SATYRIUM. Botanical Register, vol. 5. fol. 416. 
S. pustulatum ;* folis binis radicalibus cordato-orbicularibus planis papillo- 
sis, vaginis caulis appressis apice acutis foliaceis patentibus complicatis, . 
spicâ oblonga obtusa multiflora, sepalis linearibus convexis recurvis ob- 
tusis petalisque conformibus minoribus patulis, labello oblongo acuto 
margine revoluto dorso cristato apice subcrispo recurvo : omnibus alté 
connatis, calcaribus ovario paul brevioribus. Lindl. genera et sp. orch. 
p. 341. 
S. pustulatum. Lindi. in Bauer’s Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants, t. 12. 
13. 14. Fructification. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was re- 
ceived at the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew so long since as 
the year 1800, when Mr. Bauer prepared the beautiful 
drawings which form the subject of the 19th, 13th, and 14th 
plates of Fructification in the Z/lustrations of Orchidaceous 
plants. lt does not however appear to have been noticed by 
any systematical writer until it was introduced into the 
Genera and Species of Orchidaceous plants. Its name has 
been given in consequence of the leaves appearing as if 
covered with watery pustules. The flowers smell like the 
delicious Sweet Vernal Grass of our meadows. | 
Sir John Herschell found it growing in the Cape Colony 
in clayey places, baked hard by the sun, and never in sandy 
soil; according to Drége however it occurs on the sand-hills 
near Saldanha Bay, as well as on the Camiesbergen, and 
near the villages of Donkerhoek and Liefde. 
Nothing is more vexatious to lovers of flowers than the 
difficulty of preserving the terrestrial species of Orchidacew 
found at the Cape of Good Hope, where there are great 
numbers of such plants of the gayest colours and most sin- 
gular forms. They live indeed for a year or two after their 
arrival, but then perish, from debility brought on by some 
* This is printed papillosum, by an accidental oversight, in the work 
here referred to. 
