Tas. 7289. 
SATYRIUM corironi0m. 
Var. maculatum. 
Native of the Oape of Good Hope. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEzZ.—Tribe OPHRYDEA. 
Genus Satyrium, Ser.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 629.) 
SatyRium coriifolium ; robustum, glaberrimum, foliis rigide coriaceis inferiori- 
bus oblongo-lanceolatis patulis, superioribus vaginantibus erectis acutis, 
spica cylindracea multiflora, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis herbaceis reflexis 
flores xquantibus v. superantibus, sepalis lateralibus lineari-oblongis 
subacutis -deflexis, dorsali lineari breviore, petalis linearibus obtusis 
sepalis paullo brevioribus, labello hemispherico inflato v. subgloboso dorso 
carinato margine apice obtuso recurvo, calcaribus ovarium equantibus. 
8. coriifolium, Swartz in Kéngl. Vetensk. and Handb. vol. xxi. (1800) p. 216 ; 
Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. p- 54; Bot. Reg. t. 703; Bot. Mag. t. 2172; Bolus 
Orchids of Cape Penins. p. 124. 
S.erectum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 340 (non Swartz). 
S. cucullatum, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 104 (non Swartz). 
S. aureum, Pazt. Mag. Bot. vol. xv. p. 31. 
Diplectrum coriifolium, Pers, Synops. vol. ii. p. 509; Poiret, Dict. Bot. 
Suppl. vol. ii. p. 489. 
Orchis bicurvis, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, p. 1330. 
O. lutea caule purpureo maculato, Bub. Cent. vol. iii. p. 7, t. 10. 
Var. maculatum; caule viridi, floribus aurantiacis punctis saturatioribus 
ornatis. Tab. nostr. 7289. 
Mr. Bolus, in his valuable work cited above, describes 
the normal form of 8. coriifolium as one of the commonest 
Species in the Cape Peninsula, on the flats from Ronde- 
bosch southward, ascending the mountain sides up to 
six hundred or seven hundred feet, and extending east- 
wards to the Knysna river; adding that the insatiable 
flower-gatherers of Cape Town carry off from the Cape 
Flats in spring large bunches of the flowers. He describes 
the flowers as of a clear bright orange, more or less vary- 
ing to or tinged with a flame-coloured red. This answers 
well to the colour of the figures in the Botanical Register 
APRIL Ist, 1893, 
