SATYRIUM. 117 
This species is unknown to me, except from the voor specimen of 
Drége in Lindley’s herbarium, and the drawing of the flower made by 
Lindley. The plant is thin and weak, but the lip is very distinct by 
its long narrow linear segments. 
6. Holothrix villosa, Lindley, in Comp. Bot. Mag., vol. ii. (1836), 
p. 207.—Four to twelve inches high, ail parts except the flower clothed 
with long fine and very soft spreading hairs; leaves ovate, acute, 
patent, thin, 1-14 in. long ; scape very slender, usually curved ; spike 
narrow, 1-2 in. long, usually one-fifth to one-sixth the length of the 
scape, dense, spreading in all directions or sometimes subsecund ; 
flowers quite glabrous, somewhat papillose, 2 lin. long, bracts ovate 
acute, shorter than the ovary; sepals broadly ovate, the middle one 
nearly orbicular ; petals linear, obtuse, broader at the base, about as 
long as the sepals; lip ovate, concave, cut for nearly half its length 
into three linear obtuse spreading lobes, with a short, straightish, 
somewhat conical spur, the whole not exceeding 2 lin. long; rostellum 
developed into a cushion-like ring, nearly encircling the base of the 
clinandrium. 
Has. Rocky clefts in Table Mt., 2400 ft., fl. Nov., frequent, Bolus, 4655 ; Cape 
Flats, &c.—It also extends eastward to Mitchell’s Pass, Swellendam, and the 
Sneeuwberg Mts., near Graaff Reinet. 
The flowers are an ochraceous yellow, and very small, by which 
latter character, its softer longer pubescence, and its more slender 
habit it is readily known from H. condensata. 
V.—SATYRIUM. 
Thunberg ex Swartz, in Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl., vol. xxi. 
(1800), p. 214, not of Linneus ; Benth. dé Hook. f., Gen. Plant., 
vol. iii. (1883), p. 629. (Diplechthrum, Persoon, Syn., ii., 
(1807), 508; Satyridium, Lindley, Gen. & Sp. Orch. (1838), 
345 ; Aviceps, Lindley, Gen. d& Sp. Orch. (1838), 345). 
Perianth ringent. Sepals subequal, together with the usually 
similar side petals forming the lower portion, and all more or less 
connate at base, spreading or reflexed, rarely erect; or rarely (in 
S. pumilum) the side sepals and petals united for the greater part of 
their length. Lip posticous (uppermost), sessile at the base of the 
column, erect, helmet- or hood-shaped, or rarely (in S. striatum) 
vaulted, undivided, produced at base into two descending spurs or 
sacs. Column erect, mostly included within the lip, short or much 
elongated, divided at the apex into two lobes, the upper one convex, or 
more rarely concave, bearing the pulvinate stigma on its anterior 
surface, the lower lobe anticous and forming the rostellum; rarely 
