122 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
Has. Sandy flat ground in Fish Hoek, north shores of False Bay, nearly on 
the sea-level; fi. Sept. Bolus, 4847, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 159. 
Colour of the flowers a dirty yellowish white, the segments soon 
withering at the tips. In the structure of its flowers this comes near 
to S. ligulatum, having, like it, all the parts except the middle sepal 
nearly erect. But it is well distinguished by the difference in the 
leaves and other characters given. It does not appear to be common, 
and I have only met with it sparingly at the place above named, about 
a mile from the sea-shore. 
Prats 27,—Figs. 1, 2, flower with bract, front and side views x 3 diameters; 
3, parts of the flower x 3; 4, 5, column, front and side views, magnified. 
4. Satyrium ligulatum, Lindley, Gen. dé Sp. Orch. (1838), p. 342. 
—Glabrous, erect, 12-18 in. high; stem somewhat weak and flexuose, 
with 2-3 loose acuminate sheaths ; leaves about 8, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, somewhat waved, 6-8 in. long, laxly ascending or the lowest 
lying on the ground; spike rather narrow, closely 10-20-flowered ; 
bracts oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed, a little longer than the 
flowers ; side sepals ascending, lanceolate, acuminate, oblique, narrowed 
at the apex into a long linear obtuse twisted point, about 5 lines long ; 
odd sepal lanceolate, subacute, with a sigmoid flexure, the point 
ascending; lip galeate, ovate, with an acuminate reflexed point, the 
spurs about as long as the ovary; petals somewhat resembling the side 
sepals in shape, but shorter, ascending; column very erect, the con- 
nective of the anther produced into a free subulate ascending point; 
rostellum very blunt, 2-tubercled at base, about half as long as the 
erect, oblong, stigmatiferous lobe, which is more than three times as 
long as its breadth. 
Has. In an old kraal on the lower plateau of Table Mountain, at about 
2500 ft. ; fl. Nov.—Dec. (1882). Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 332; H. Bolus, 4853 ; not 
common.— Extends to Tulbagh Kloof, Caledon (Zeyher, 3910), Knysna, and near 
Grahamstown (MacOwan, 693). 
Colour of the flowers white. In floral structure this comes nearest 
to the preceding. Like it also this species is somewhat rare on the 
Peninsula, and I have only met with it on the one station recorded 
above. 
PuateE 28.—Figs. 1, 2, flower, front and side views x 4 diameters; 3, side 
sepal x 4; 4, petal x 4; 5, lip, flattened out x 4; 6, 7, column, side and front 
views ; 8, pollinium ; 9, section of ovary,—variously magnified. 
5. Satyrium bicorne, Thunberg, Prodr. Plant. Capens. (1794), 
p. 6.—A nearly glabrous erect herb, with a somewhat thin, rigid, and 
very straight scape, from 1-14 feet high. Leaves two, radical, broadly 
ovate, subacute, sheathing at base, lying flat upon the ground, ciliate, 
8-10-nerved, 4-5 in. long, 3-4 in. wide, succeeded by about 4 inflated, 
nearly vase-shaped sheaths; spike about half the length of the scape ; 
bracts oblong, acute or subobtuse, reflexed ; flowers somewhat distant ; 
