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resembling the blade of a cheesemonger’s cutter, distinguishes it from 
its congeners on the Peninsula. 
9. Satyrium foliosum, Swartz, in Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. vol. 
xxi. (1800), p. 216; Thunb. Flor. Cap. (ed. 1823), p. 18 (not of Lindley !). 
—Glabrous, erect, or decumbent, 9-15 in. high. Leaves ovate, acute, 
nerved, sheathing at base, erecto-patent, the two lower 13-2 in. long, 
1-14 in. wide, succeeded by about 4 spreading acute sheaths, the upper 
gradually smaller; spike linear, about half the length of the scape, not 
densely flowered; bracts lanceolate, acute, nerved, the lower reflexed, 
the upper erect, about as long as the flowers; flowers spreading, erect, 
the ovary and helmet very straight; sepals oblong, very obtuse, erosu- 
late towards the apex, 34 lines long, the lateral widely spreading, the 
odd one narrower and a little shorter, the same shape as the petals, 
all strongly recurved; lip helmet-shaped, with a free, obtuse, erect, 
erosulate apex, and filiform spurs about 1 in. long, much exceeding 
the ovary; rostellum short and wide, 8-toothed, the middle rounded, 
the side ones acute, tubercled at base; stigmatiferous lobe wider than 
long, a little longer than the rostellum, margined, and notched at the 
top, the stigma very convex and bilobed; ovary linear, ribbed in front, 
convex at the back, about 8 lines long. 
Has. On a steep grassy bank, on the east side of Table Mountain, near the 
summit at about 3300 ft.; fl. Dec.—Jan., A. Bodkin, Bolus, No. 4858, Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 155. 
The flowers are a pale ochre-yellow; the leaves bright green above, 
much paler below. The species is not by any means common, and 
does not seem to have been gathered since Thunberg’s time, who did 
not name the station where he found it. The credit of its re-discovery 
is due to Mr. Bodkin, who found it in Jan., 1883, and I subsequently 
obtained it in 1884. It was unknown to Lindley, who called by this 
name the species which I have described as S. Hallackii. Thunberg’s 
description, however, is excellent (though he stated the flowers to be 
“purplish,” probably trusting to memory), and Mr. N. E. Brown, of 
Kew, identified the species at once amongst Thunberg’s types. This 
has somewhat the habit and general appearance of S. ochrolewcum, but 
it has not the large lower leaves of that species, the spurs are much 
longer, and the column different in shape. 
10. Satyrium lupulinum, Lindley, Gen. & Sp. Orch. (1888), 
p. 888.—Glabrous, erect, 8-16 in. high. Stem straight, leafy, slender 
or stoutish; lower leaves 8, ovate, acute, waved, close together and 
sheathing at base, spreading, 2-4 in. long, 3-8 in. wide, succeeded by 
2-3 more erect, sheath-like, acute, leaves; spike somewhat densely 
many-flowered, the bracts herbaceous, broadly ovate, acuminate, 
