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SATYRIUM pustulatum. 



Pustular Satyrium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 

 Nat. Ord. Orchidace^, § Ophryde^. 

 SATYRIUM. Botanical Register, vol. b.fol. 416. 



^.pustulatum;* foliis binis radicalibus cordato-orbicularibus planis papillo- 

 sis, vaginis caulis appressis apice acxitis foliaceis patentibus complicatis, 

 spica oblonga obtusa multiflora, sepalis linearibus convexis recurvis ob- 

 tusis petalisque conformibus minoribus patulis, labello oblongo acuto 

 margine revoluto dorso cristato apice subcrispo recurvo : omnibus alte 

 connatis, calcaribus ovario paulo brevioribus. Lindl. genera et sp. arch, 

 p. 341. 



S. pustulatum. Lindl. 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 l'2th, 13th, and 14th 

 plates of Fructification in the Illustrations of Orchidaceous 

 plants. It 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 Stueet 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 Drege 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 Orchidaceae 

 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 



* Tliis is printed papillosum, by an accidental oversight, in the work 

 here referred to. 



