SATYRIUM, 7 128 
side sepals broadly oblong, 8-84 lines long, the odd one narrower, 
petals shaped like the side sepals but shorter, all spreading, convex 
above and deeply connate at base; lip helmet-shaped, subacute, the 
small point pushed forward, with filiform spurs 9-10 lines long, 
nearly half as long again as the ovary; rostellum oblong, with a single 
tooth in the middle of the front margin, deflexed, shorter than the 
linear-oblong emarginate stigmatiferous lobe of the column, which is 
about twice as long asits width; ovary oblong, sharply ribbed.—Orchis 
lutea, Buxbaum, Cent. 8 (1729), p. 6, t. 8. O. bicornis, Linneus, 
Ameen. Acad. 6 (1764), 109. S. cucullatum, Swartz, Kongl. V. Acad. 
Handl. 21, 216, t. iii. f.C. a-e. Thunberg, Flor. Cap. (ed. 1823), p. 17. 
Bot. Reg. t. 416. Andrews, Bot. Repos. t. 815. 
Has. Heathy places on the Flats, and on the hills and mountain sides up to 
about 2500 ft.; fi. Sept.—Oct. Bolus, 4556; Ecklon d& Zeyher, 1559, 4679 ; Drege, 
8294, 8295.—Extends to the Caledon district (Appel’s Kraal). 
The flowers are scented, and of a dull ochre-yellow; the scape and 
bases of the sheath usually red or reddish. It is allied to S. ochro- 
leucum and to 8. foliosum. This species is one of the commonest of the 
genus, and may be found almost everywhere, though most abundant 
on the eastern side of the Peninsula. It was introduced into England 
by Masson about the year 1787. Buxbaum’s figure of this and some 
others appear to be the earliest recorded of any South-African Orchids. 
It is not very like, but is cited by Linneus. 
6. Satyrium ochroleucum, Bolus, in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. vol. xxii. 
(1885), p. 66.—Glabrous, erect, rather weak, a span to a foot high. 
Leaves two, appressed to the soil, oval, subobtuse, or acute, many- 
nerved, sheathing at base, 8-4 in. long, 2-34 in. wide, three uppermost 
gradually passing into leafy spreading sheaths; spike loosely many- 
flowered, 3-8 in. long, 1 in. wide; bracts lanceolate, reflexed, some- 
what longer than the ovaries; side sepals oblong, subfalcate, obtuse, 
about 8 lines long; odd sepal and petals linear, obtuse, a little shorter; 
lip galeate, 3-4 lines long, with a narrow elliptical mouth, margin 
recurved, apex erect or reflexed, obtuse, minutely toothed, the spurs 
spreading, 5-6 lines long, slightly exceeding the ovary; rostellum 
oblong, narrowed in front; stigmatiferous lobe of the column semi- 
orbicular ; ovary acutely ribbed, about 5 lines long. Orchis bicornis, 
Jacquin, Hort. Schoenbr. t. 179! (not of Linneus); an excellent 
figure. 
Has. On the eastern slopes of the Devil’s Peak, above Newlands, at about 
1500 ft.; Oct. 27th, 1884. A. Bodkin (Bolus, 4982), Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 411; 
Drege, 1257a. 
The colour of the flowers is a pale ochre-yellow, like those of 
S. bicorne, and the whole plant has the pleasant odour of the sweet- 
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