124 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
scented English Vernal Grass. It has somewhat the appearance 
of S. bicorne, but the habit is much laxer; the structure of the flowers, 
however, is much nearer to those of S. candidum, with which the plant 
was confused by Lindley. But S. candidwn is more robust, and the 
flowers larger and always white, or a very pale rose. Small specimens 
very much resemble S. humile, Lindley, with the type of which I have 
compared it; but the present species differs by its relatively shorter 
and broader stigmatiferous lobe of the column and its shorter spurs. 
It does not seem to be common on the Peninsula, but I found it in 
some abundance near the Tulbagh Road Railway Station, on Oct. 8rd, 
1884, where it was accompanied by a variety with a more robust habit 
and larger flowers, which were, however, identical in structure with 
the typical form. 
PuatE 26.—Fig. 1, 2, flower, front and side view x 3 diameters; 3, sepals and 
petals x 3; 4, column, front view; 5, ditto, side view; 6, section of ovary; 
7, rostellum viewed from above; all the latter variously magnified. 
7. Satyrium coriifolium, Swartz, in Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 
vol. xxi. (1800), p. 216.—Erect, robust, glabrous, 14-2 ft. high. 
Lowest leaf short and scale-like, three succeeding oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, many-nerved, sheathing at base, rigid, leathery, spreading-erect, 
the upper 2-3 reduced to distant acuminate sheaths; spike cylindrical, 
many-flowered, bracts ovate-acuminate, reflexed, as long as, or some- 
what longer than, the flowers; side sepals oblong, obliquely acute, 
deflexed, about 6 lines long; odd sepal linear, obtuse, equally long ; 
petals linear, acute, equalling the sepals; lip galeate, inflated, nearly 
globose or compressed at the sides, with a free obtuse apex, spurs 
obtuse, about as long as the ovary; rostellum wide, 8-toothed in front, 
the sinuses very wide and round; stigmatiferous lobe of the column 
oblong, concave, scarcely longer than the rostellum ; ovary short, the 
dorsal rib somewhat obsolete. Orchis lutea caule purpureo, Buxbaum, 
Cent. 3 (1729), p.7,t.10. Orchis bicornis, Linneus, Spec. Plant. ed. 2. 
(1763) 1830. S. erectum, Lindley, in Gen. & Sp. Orch. (1838) p. 840, 
not of Swartz; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 104; Bot. Mag. t. 2172; Bot. 
Reg. t. 708. 
Has. On the Flats, from Rondebosch southward; and on the hills and 
mountain sides up to 600 or 700 ft.; fl. July—Nov.; Zeyher, 1555; Drege, 1256b; 
Bolus, 4557..-Extends eastward to the Knysna (Burchell, 5551, 6067). 
One of the commonest species on the Peninsula, and one which 
remains the longest in flower. It is especially abundant on the Flats, 
where insatiable flower-gatherers in spring carry off large bunches of 
the scapes. The flowers are a clear bright orange, more or less 
varying to or tinged with, a flame-coloured red. The colour seems 
constant, and easily distinguishes this species from any other, though 
I have seen plants from Diep River, which appeared to be hybrids 
