120 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
§ 2. Saccatz. Lip with two sacs shorter than its limb. 
Lip helmet-shaped; bracts reflexed. 
Apex of the lip more or less deflexed in front .. .. S. BICALLOSUM 13. 
Apex of the lip not deflexed. 
Flowers pale yellow or white .. ae 5: .. S. Linypteyanum 14. 
Flowers dull red or dark brown. 
Erect ; leaves several, small 36 42 .. S. BRACTEATUM 15. 
Decumbent, weak ; leaves 2 or 3, large .. S. SAXICOLUM 16. 
Lip arched, not helmet-shaped; bracts erect .. oe .. §. striatum 17. 
Suscenus II. SATYRIDIUM. 
Caudicles of the pollinia terminating in a single gland. 
Only species ee oe oe oe == 3e .. S. RHYNCHANTHUM 18. 
Subgenus I. Ev-Saryrrum. 
1. Satyrium carneum, Ff. Brown, in Hort. Kew, ed. 2, vol. 5 (1813) 
p. 196. — Erect, robust, glabrous, 1-2 feet high. Tadical leaves two, 
orbicular or ovoid, fleshy, appressed to the soil; cauline leaves several, 
ovate, acute, gradually reduced to leaf-like swollen sheaths; spike densely 
many-flowered, ovate or oblong, half to a third the length of the 
scape; bracts ovate, acute, membranous, erect, or the lower ones 
patulous, nearly equalling the flowers; side sepals falcate-oblong, 
acute, 7-8 lines long, middle sepal linear-acute, equal in length ; petals 
oblong, abruptly acute, a little shorter than the sepals; all the 
segments deeply partite, ascending, and all, except the odd sepal, 
keeled below; lip galeate, oblong, with a free obtuse apex, scarcely 
keeled on the back, with filiform curved spurs 14-14 times as long as 
the ovary; rostellum oblong, narrowed in front, much shorter than the 
linear, arched and somewhat protruded stigmatiferous lobe of the 
column; ovary sharply ribbed, curved, 6-7 lines long. Bot. Mag. t. 
1512; Flore des Serres, 4, t. 829. 
Has. Sandy soil extending from Wynberg southward, especially abundant 
about Fish Hoek and the neighbouring hills, from the sea-level up to 800ft. in 
elevation ; flowering in the latter half of September and the earlier part of October. 
Bolus, 4831, &c. 
This is the largest and finest species within our limits, easily dis- 
tinguished by its size, its large pink flowers, and the long linear upper 
lobe of the column. It is a deserving favourite of Orchid-lovers, and 
was introduced into England by Masson, as far back as the year 1787, 
but the plate in the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ gives a very poor idea of the 
size of its spike. How far it may extend eastward I do not know; but 
on the sandy dunes of St. Francis Bay, near Port Elizabeth, its 
place appears to be taken by S. princeps, a closely allied, but yet 
handsomer species, with deep carmine flowers, which was first sent to 
me in 1885, by Mr. Russell Hallack. 
