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2. Satyrium candidum, Lindley in Bot. Reg. for 1888, misc. No. 158. 
—Glabrous, robust, erect, 1-14 feet high. Leaves 2, radical, ovate 
or subrotund, lying flat upon the ground, 4-5 in. long, succeeded by 
several loose sheaths; spike cylindrical, bracts oblong, subacute, 
reflexed. Side sepals oblong, subacute, horizontally spreading, the 
odd one with reflexed margins, obtuse, all nearly 5 lines long; petals 
nearly linear subulate, acute, much shorter than the sepals; lip 
galeate, roundish, inflated, with an obtuse reflexed point, the margin 
reflexed on the sides, a sharp keel along the back, and spurs nearly 
half as long again as the ovary; rostellum short and broad, three- 
toothed in front, tubercled at base ; stigmatiferous lobe wider than the 
rostellum and wider than its length, rounded above and margined ; 
ovary with 6 sharpridges. S. utriculatum, Sonder in ‘ Linnea,’ vol. xix. 
(1847) 84. 
Has. Sandy flats eastward of Mowbray, Rondebosch, Wynberg, &c., and on 
Table Mountain up to 2400 feet; fl. Oct., frequent. Zeyher, 1558; Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 158; Bolus, 4331, &c. It is said to extend eastward to Genadendal, 
and northward to Riebeek’s Casteel. j 
The flowers are a pure white, or sometimes faintly suffused with 
pink, and have a strong and fragrant scent; hence it is a deserved 
favourite. It was flowered in England nearly fifty years ago by Sir 
John Herschel, who took it home with him on his return. When 
dried this species somewhat resembles S. bicorne (and more strongly S. 
erectum, though this latter does not come within our limits). In this 
state the student should observe the edges of the leaves and sheaths, 
which are quite smooth in this species, and the blunt-pointed galea, 
while in S. bicorne it is sharp. If still in doubt, the flowers, if soaked 
and dissected under the microscope, will immediately reveal the truth, 
by the widely different shape of the stigmatiferous lobe of their 
columns. 
3. Satyrium emarcidum, Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xxii. 
(1885) p. 67.—Glabrous, erect, 4-7 in. high; radical leaf solitary, 
ovate or subrotund, acute, sheathing at base, appressed to the ground, 
2-21 in. long and wide, second leaf ovate, acute, ascending, upper- 
most passing into sheaths; spike densely 6-12-flowered, 1-2 in. long, 
bracts ovate, acute, reflexed, about as long as the flowers; side sepals 
cymbiform, incised on the outer margin, erect; odd sepal linear- 
oblong, acute, decurved, all about 3 lines long; petals ovate, acumi- 
nate, ascending, 8 lines long; lip galeate, ovate, with an acuminate 
reflexed point, 4 lines long, with filiform bluntish spurs about as 
long as the ovary; column curved; connective of the anther produced 
into a free subulate ascending point; rostellum umbonate at the 
apex, about as long as the oblong subemarginate stigma; ovary 
elliptical, ridged, about 3 lines long. 
