TAB. 24. 



Tribe Opiikyde.e. 

 Sub-tribe Dise^. 

 Genus Satyrium. 



Satyrium debile, Bolus, in Joum. of Linn. Sac. vol. xxii, {But.) 

 p. 67 (1885). — Herba glabra clebilis decumbens, 15-20 cm. alta; caulis 

 gracilis, laxe foliosus, basi vagiuis 2-3 membranaceis vestitus ; folia 

 4-5 lanceolata adscendentia acuta subundulata, infimum 5-6 cm. Ion- 

 gum, superiora sensim minora ; spica sublaxa angusta, 3-5-5 cm. 

 longa, bracteae lanceolatae patenti-erectae, inferiores floribus longiores, 

 superiores breviores ; flores cum ovario 5-7 mill, longi ; sepala 

 lateralia elliptica, impar oblongum, petal subrbomboidea, omnia obtusa 

 basi connata patentia, vix 2 mill, louga ; labellum galeatum obtusum, 

 2-2*5 mill, longum, basi saccis minimis obtusissimis auctum; columna 

 abbreviata, fere sessilis ; rostellum bre^"issimum triaugulare ; autberae 

 loculi dissiti ; lobus stigmatiferus emarginatus, basi 2-tuberculatus ; 

 stigma semi-orbiculare pulvinatum ; ovarium oblongum, margiue 

 utriuque bicostatum. {E.r exempli, plur. viv.) 



Hab: South-western Region; Cape Coloxy: Kleinpoort ou tbe 

 'NYinterboek Mt. near Tulbagb, alt. about 900 meters, fl. Dec, coll. A. 

 Bodkin (No. 5907 of my herb.) 



Plate 24. Fig. 1, flower with bract, front view; 2, ditto, viewed 

 from behind, — both magnified about 6 diameters; 3, flower, the column 

 being removed ; -i, column, front view ; 5, ditto, side view ; 6, section 

 of the ovary, — all the latter variously magnified. 



A glabrous weak decumbent herb, 15-20 cm. high ; stem 

 slender, loosely leafy, with 2-3 membranous sheaths below the 

 lowest leaf; leaves 4-5 ascending lanceolate acute, somewhat 

 waved, the lowest 5-6 cm. long, the upper gradually smaller; 

 spike somewhat loosely flowered narrow, 3-55 cm. long, bracts 

 lanceolate spreading-erect, the lower exceeding, the upper 

 shorter than the flowers ; flowers, including the ovary, 5-7 mill, 

 long; side sepals elliptical, odd sepal oblong, petals somewhat 

 rhomboidal, all obtuse connate at base spreading, scarcely 2 mill, 

 long; lip galeate obtuse (the apex neither turned down nor 

 depressed), the mouth wider than its length, 2-2*5 mill, long, 

 with 2 very small and very obtuse sacs at the base; column 

 short, nearly sessile ; rostellum very short, triangular ; ceUs of 



