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between this species and S. carnewm, and which had salmon-coloured 
flowers only slightly modified in structure. The species is a very old 
one, and was perhaps cultivated in Europe prior to 1729, when 
Buxbaum’s figure was published, although Loddiges says it was first 
introduced by Masson in 1787. There has been some confusion 
between it and 8. erectum, Swartz (which does not occur within our 
limits); and I suspect that the plant under the latter name in 
Thunberg’s ‘Flora Capensis,’ ed. 1828, p. 18, was really described 
from S. coriifolium. Thunberg calls the flowers ‘ flavo aurantiaci”’ 
(yellow orange), and I know no other western species of this colour. 
He also adds that it is called by the colonists ‘‘Geele Trewa”’; this 
species is called ‘‘ Ewa Trewa,” probably a corruption of the former. 
But the S. erectum of Thunberg’s herbarium, which must be accepted 
as the final authority, we now know, from the examination of Mr. 
N. E. Brown, to be a very different and well-known plant, with rose- 
coloured flowers, common enough about Tulbagh, Stellenbosch, &c. 
8. Satyrium odorum, Sonder in Linnea, vol. xix. (1847), p. 86.— 
A lax-growing glabrous somewhat succulent herb, 1-2 ft. high. Scape 
weak, often bent at the base or above; lower leaves about 4, ovate, 
acute, sheathing at base, entire, loosely spreading, 4-6 in. long, 
8-4 in. wide, in large specimens attaining to 10 in. or more in length, 
the upper much smaller; succeeded by two sheaths, united so as to 
form a shallow cup at base; spike laxly flowered, from 3-8 in. or more 
in length; bracts ovate, acuminate, reflexed, about as long as the 
flowers; sepals oblong, obtuse, spreading, about 34 lines long, the odd 
one a little smaller; petals oblong-obovate, very obtuse, 24 lines long; 
lip galeate, the mouth obovate, with an obtuse reflexed point, the 
margin in front reflexed, the back keeled, the whole, with the filiform 
spurs (which are longer than the ovary), about 1 in. long; rostellum 
ovate, very much rounded in front, the widely-separated sinuses which 
hold the glands, forming a single semi-orbicular lobe terminated by a 
sharp tooth on either side, bi-tuberculate at base ; stigmatiferous lobe 
oblong, nearly square-topped, finely toothed towards the summit, 
almost twice as long as its width. 
Has. Under shrubs and in shady places, on the Flats, and also on the slopes of 
Table Mountain up to 2500 ft.; fl. Aug.—Oct.; Ecklon & Zeyher, 1557; Drege, 
8291a; C. Wright, 138; Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 157; Bolus, 4559. 
This is one of the earliest-flowering of our Orchids ; and not at 
all uncommon, though it seems chiefly to affect the eastern part of the 
Peninsula. The flowers are a pale green, with dull purple tips on the 
sepals and labellum ; not at all pretty, but with a very strong and 
agreeable odour of cloves. The species is not easily mistaken for any 
other, and the peculiar form of the front of the rostellum, somewhat 
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