Tas. 6625. 
SATYRIUM Neparense. 
Native of the Mountains of India. 
Nat. Ord. OrncuH1pEx.—Tribe OpHRYDER. 
Genus Satyrium, Thunb.; (Hndi. Gen. Pl. p. 211.) 
SaTYRIUM nepalense; glaberrimum, gracile v. robustum, foliis ovatis v. lanceolatis 
acutis, nervis validis, bracteis flores superantibus lanceolatis inferioribus reflexis, 
floribus roseis, sepalo antico lineari-oblongo obtuso deflexo, lateralibus multo 
majoribus oblongo-ovatis obtusis, petalis sepalo antico multo minoribus oblongis 
obtusis recurvis, labello cucullato dorso carinato marginibus recurvis crenatis, 
calearibus ovarium brevioribus zequantibus v. superantibus. 
S. nepalense, Don Prodr. 26; Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 929; Lindl. Gen. et Sp. 
Orchid. 340, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. iii. p. 44. 
Ss. eer sites A. Rich. in Ann, Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, vol. xv. p. 76, t.5; Wight, 
fr ts L716. 
8. albiflorum, A. Rich. l.c.; Wight, 1. c. t. 1717. 
S. Wightianum, Lind/. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 340, and in Journ. Linn. Soe. l. ce. ; 
Wight, 1. c. t. 1718. 
S. pallidum, A. Rich. l.c. 
8. ciliatum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orehid. p. 340, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. l.e. p. 44. 
This is the commonest Orchid in the hills of India, 
abounding in the Himalaya from Simla eastward; also 
found in the Khasia Mountains, in those of the Deccan 
Peninsula from the Bababooden Hills to Travancore, and 
in Ceylon. The elevation it attains varies with the climate. 
In the north-western Himalaya it ranges between 4000 and 
8000 feet, in the eastern between 6000 and 12,000; in the 
Khasia it is found at 4000 to 6000 feet, and in the 
Nilgherry Hills and in Ceylon at about the same. Of the 
six species to which this plant has given rise, there is not 
one presenting a shadow of a good character; as many 
could with equal reason be made of our common Orchis 
latifolia, which has nearly as wide a range in Europe 
(from Norway to South Morocco) as 8. nepalense has in 
India. Wight, indeed, retains and figures the type, 
MAY lst, 1882, 
