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The stem is reddish, the lower leaf red below, dark green above, 
the flowers fulvous with red stripes, with a few glandular hairs at the 
base of the side sepals and petals. This well-marked species was not, 
so far as is known, gathered for upwards of a hundred years after 
Thunberg’s time. It does not appear to be amongst Burchell’s, 
Keklon and Zeyher’s, Drége’s, Harvey’s, or Pappe’s collections, and it 
was unknown to Lindley. It was therefore with great pleasure that I 
received in Oct., 18838, three little plants sent to me by Miss Farnham 
from Vlaggeberg, near Stellenbosch, which I had little hesitation in 
identifying, from Thunberg’s excellent description, with this species. 
This was confirmed by Mr. N. E. Brown, of Kew, who compared it 
with Thunberg’s type, which, with all his orchids, had been sent over 
from Upsal to Kew for examination. A year later Professor Bodkin 
found it in abundance on the Steenberg, near the stream that runs 
down to the Silver-mine farm, and we were enabled to distribute it. 
Thunberg’s original station was marked as ‘‘ Streams about Piquet- 
berg.” 
PuatE 33.—Fig. 1, flower and bract; 2, 3, galea, back and front view; 4, side 
sepals; 5, middle sepal; 6, side petals ;—all magnified 4 diameters; 7, 8, column, 
side and front views x 6; 9, pollinia, magnified. 
Suscenus II. SATYRIDIUM. 
18. Satyrium rhynchanthum, Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soe., 
vol. xix. (1882), p. 842.—A straight, erect, glabrous herb, from 6 in. 
to 14 ft. high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, sheathing at base, the 
two or three lower more or less spreading, 14-8 in. long, the upper 
more erect and gradually passing into sheathing bracts; spike from 
2-6 in. long, somewhat lax; bracts ovate, acute, reflexed, rather 
shorter than the flowers ; sepals free, spreading, the lateral obliquely 
oblong, the odd one narrower, oblanceolate, all obtuse, about 3 lin. 
long; petals like the middle sepal, but toothed towards the apex ; lip 
scarcely galeate, the front part ovate in outline, with a long beaked 
point projecting forward, spurs thick, inflated, obtuse, shorter than the 
ovary ; column projecting forward, the anther hanging vertically and 
nearly free in front, the caudicles united to a single gland which caps 
and terminates the column ; rostellum very short, immediately behind 
and below the gland; stigma elliptical, umbonate, situate directly below 
the rostellum ; ovary much compressed dorsally.—Satyridiwn rostratum, 
Lindley, Gen. & Sp. Orch. (1838), p. 845; Harvey, Thes. Cap., vol. i., 
p. 55, t. 87. 
Has. In moist swampy places, amongst high grass or Restiacew on Table 
Mountain at 3000 ft., and on the Steenberg Mt. at 1100 ft.; fl. latter part of 
December; Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 331; Bolus, 4999.—The species extends east- 
ward to Du Toit’s Kloof, and to Hex River and Villiersdorp, flowering there in 
November, 
