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reflexed, longer and wider than the flowers; sepals linear-oblong, 
subobtuse, strongly curved and bent downwards, the lateral about 
44 lines long, the odd one smaller; petals somewhat rhomboidal or - 
subfalcate, the upper half crisped, curved, and occupying an unusually 
large space between the sepals and the lip; lip galeate, narrow, the 
mouth ovate or oblong, with a nearly erect obtuse apex, the whole, 
with the filiform spurs (which are longer than the ovary) about 10 lines 
long; rostellum oblong, truncate, with a small straight-edged central 
lobe on the truncated margin; stigmatiferous lobe linear-oblong, wider 
at the rounded apex, about 8 times as long as its width. 
Has. Eastern slopes of Table Mountain above Klassenbosch and on Wynberg 
Hill, &c., at from 500 to 1200 feet above the sea; fl. Sept.—Oct., not very common. 
Bolus, 4553, &e.—Extends to the Houw Hoek Mts., and on the authority of a single 
specimen in Herb. Kew, to Algoa Bay, Forbes. 
There are two varieties: one with dark brown, the other with 
tawny yellow flowers. I have found these growing together, and they 
do not seem otherwise to differ. In habit the present species resembles 
S. foliosum, but the bracts are very different. The large size of the 
latter compared with the flowers, and the set of the strongly-curved 
petals, so as to bring them entirely above the sepals, are the dis- 
tinguishing characteristics of this species. Lindley describes the petals 
as sometimes minutely pubescent ; I have never found them otherwise 
than glabrous. I have only gathered the plant on two or three spots; 
in some years it seems to be very scarce, or hardly to appear at all, 
and then very much dwarfed. 
11. Satyrium marginatum, Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xx. 
(1884), p. 476.—Stem erect, nearly straight, distantly leafy, 4-14 ft. 
high; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, sheathing at base, somewhat 
leathery, margined, faintly nerved, the upper smaller, the uppermost 
reduced to sheaths; spike many-flowered, 3-6 in. long, 4-1 in. wide; 
bracts oblong, obtuse or acute, erect, shorter than the flowers; side sepals 
oblong, obtuse, 4 lines long, the odd one as long but narrower and 
incurved at the apex ; petals oblong-linear, obtuse, mucronulate, a little 
shorter than the sepals; lip galeate, obovate, with an acuminate reflexed 
point as long as the mouth, spurs filiform, equalling the ovary; column 
‘ erect, then bent forward at the middle; rostellum 3-lobed in front, 
bituberculate at base; stigmatiferous lobe oblong, or nearly square ; 
ovary 5-6 lines long, the posterior side convex, without rib.—S. parvi- 
florum, Lindley, Gen. & Sp. Orch. (1888), not of Swartz. 
Haz. Moist places on the Cape Flats below Claremont, &c., at 80 ft. alt.; 
fl. Oct. ; Ecklon, 1561, 3913; Drége, 1260a; Pappe, 65, 66; Bolus, 4550.—Extends 
eastward to the Hottentot’s-holland range of mountains, and probably further. 
Flowers nearly white, side sepals tinged with pink, the other parts 
with faint green lines; the whole plant generally dries a rusty brown. 
