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Satyrium carneum. Great-flowered 

 Cape Satyrium. 



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Oafs and Order. 

 Gynandria Monogynia, 



Generic CharaHer. 



Cor. 5-pctala, ringens, petalis cum labello bafi coalitis, fupre- 

 raum fornicatum poftice bicalcaratum. Anthera ftylo elongato 

 fub ftigmate terminali adnata. 



Specific Character and Synonym, 



SATYRIUM carneum ; foliis orbiculatis nervofis, bracleis 

 cucullatis apice coloratis corollis majoribus, galea magna 

 carinata, labello petalis anguftiore. 



ORCHIS carnea ; bulbis indivifis, corollae galea bicalcarata, 

 bracleis ereQis. Ait. Hort.Kew.ed. i. v. 3. p. 294. 



The genus Satyrium of Thunberg, adopted by Swartz 

 and Willdenow, is limited to fuch of the orchide<£ as have 

 two fpurs at the back of the flower, as in the Orchis bicomis 

 of Linn/eus; all the Satyria of Linn^us are consequently 

 referred to other genera. The fpecies recorded by Swart z 

 are all natives of the Cape of Good Hope, and make a very 

 natural and diftinctly marked genus ; but perhaps it would have 

 been better to have applied a new name to it, rather than one 

 which has been fo long given to plants having flowers whofe 

 ftructure is different, even though the latter fhould be properly 

 united to other genera. 



The Satyrium carneum is one of the mod fpecious of the 

 family, forming a denfe fpike of a foot or more in length. The 

 bottom leaves are orbicular, many-nerved, having the inter- 

 faces filled up with a glandulous parenchyma ; upwards they 

 become gradually more oblong with longer petioles applied dole 



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