TAB. 20. 



Tribe Ophryde^. 

 Sub-tribe Diseje. 

 GeDus Satyhium. 



Satyrium pygmseum, SondiT, in Limura, vol. six, p. 86 (1847). — 

 Caulis gracilis erectus, 6-20 cm. altus ; folia radicalia 2, humistrata 

 ovata acuta, obscure uervata, 2-5-3-7 cm. longa, caulinia 2-4, confor- 

 m.ia, sensim minora, erectiora ; racemus laxe multiflorus ; bracteae 

 ovatfe acuminatfe reflexae, floribus paullo breviores ; flores deflexae, fere 

 horizontales ; sepala petalaque basi counata dedexa, 4 mill, longa ; 

 sepala lateralia falcato-ovata subacuta, impar ovatum obtusum ; petala 

 oblique ovata, margine exterior! angulato ; labellum galeatum ovatum 

 subacutum, ealcaribus filiformibus divaricatis ovario parum brevioribus, 

 totum 1-2-1-4 cm. longum ; columua abbre"\"iata deflexa; rostellum 

 subquadratum, margine anteriori in acumen subulatum producto ; 

 glaudulfe dissitae ; lobus stigmatiferus oblongus, rosteUo fequilongus 

 basi 2-tuberculatus. (Ex c.rewpll. jihir. viv.) 



Hab: South-western Region; Cape Colony: Winterhoeksberg, 

 near Tulbagh, alt. 600-900 met., fl. Nov., Ecklon d- Zeyher ; Groot- 

 vadersbosch, SweUendam, Oct., Zeyher, 3914 ; Skurfdebergen, near 

 Ceres, alt. 600 met., fl. Oct., Bidus, 7327; Herb. Norm. Anst-Afr., 1095. 



Plate 20. Fig. 1, flower; 2, lip; 3, sepals and petals, flattened 

 out and viewed from above, — all tbe foregoing magnified about 3 

 diameters ; 4, column, side view ; 5, column, fi-ont view ; 6, one of the 

 pollinia, — the latter variously magnified. 



Stem slender erect, 6-20 cm. high ; radical leaves 2, appressed 

 to the soil, ovate acute, obscurely nerved, 2*5-37 cm. long, 

 cauline leaves 2-4, similar but gradually smaller and more 

 erect ; raceme loosely many-fl., bracts ovate acuminate reflexed, 

 slightly shorter than the flowers, flowers almost horizontally 

 deflexed ; sepals and petals connate at base, deflexed, 4 mill, 

 long, side sepals falcate-ovate subacute, odd sepal ovate obtuse ; 

 petals obliquely ovate, outer margin angled ; lip galeate, ovate 

 in outline, subacute, mouth suborbicular, spurs filiform divari- 

 cate, a little shorter than the ovary, the whole 1-2-1-4 cm. long; 

 column short deflexed ; rostellum somewhat square, the margin 

 in front produced into a deflexed point, glands distant ; stigma- 

 tiferous lobe oblong, equalling the rosteUum, 2-tubercled at base. 



