SATYRIUM. 181 
Has. In moist places on the Cape Flats near Rondebosch, Claremont, &c., alt. 
50—100 ft., fl. Aug.—Sept.; Zeyher, 1562; Bolus, 3932. 
Flowers about the colour of burnt sienna, with a stripe of raw 
sienna along each sepal and petal, and several on the lip, or more 
rarely dull ochre-yellow with reddish stripes. 
Flowers darker and habit laxer.--On mountain sides, Bolus, 4904. 
Var. y. NANuM.— Smaller in all parts than the preceding, 2-3 in. 
high, leaves fewer, spike longer in proportion to the height of the 
plant, bracts strictly reflexed, perianth-segments less deeply connate, 
stigmatiferous lobe of the column wider than its length, and pilose 
at base. 
Colour of the flowers dull red, with darker red stripes, arranged 
as in the preceding. 
Has. Near streams, Klaver Vley, behind Simon’s Town, at about 800ft.; fi. 
Sept. Bolus, 4820. 
For the determination of these forms I am greatly indebted to the 
help of Mr. N. E. Brown, without which I could not have succeeded. 
Thunberg’s Herbarium, carefully examined by that gentleman, contains 
three sheets marked S. bracteatum. Sheets a and e contain the plant 
described by Thunberg, Flor. Cap., p. 18, and is the same as S. pictum, 
Lindley. The flowers are glabrous, without papille on the nerves, 
and are described as white. I cannot find that this, the typical form, 
has been gathered on the Peninsula, nor have I ever seen more than 
a single dried flower sent me for dissection. The column of this is 
almost exactly the same as that of my 8932. Thunberg found it near 
Riebeck’s Kasteel and Piquetberg in October. Sheet d contains plants 
which Mr. Brown identified with my Nos. 8982, 4820, and 4904, 
Zeyher’s 1562, and with Lindley’s S. lineatum. But amongst these 
are certainly two distinct forms, which I have characterised as above. 
The confusion of this species and its forms is greatly due to Lindley, 
who, without seeing Thunbereg’s types, described as S. bracteatum of 
Thunberg a distinct species (our S. Lindleyanum), and made two new 
species (S. lineatum and S. pictum) out of the true S. bracteatum. 
Our S. saxicolum may possibly be merely another form of this variable 
species, distinguishable by little more than its lax habit and larger 
lower leaves. 
Prate 32.—A, var. 8. LINEATUM. Figs. 1, 2, flower, front and side views; 3, lip, 
front view; 4, sepals and petals,—all x 3 diameters; 5, 6, column, front and side 
views ; 7, pollinium, magnified. B, var. y. NANuM. Figs. 8, 9, flower, front and 
side views, mag. 6 diameters ; 10, 11, column, front and side views, x 10. 
16. Satyrium saxicolum, Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xx. 
(1884), p. 474.—A dwarf, glabrous, weak, decumbent herb, 2-3 in. 
high ; leaves 2-8, ovate, obtuse or subacute, clasping at base, 3-nerved, 
flaccid, pale green, spreading, and often revolute, 1-2 in. long, the 
