TAB. 72. 



Tribe Opheydeae. 

 Sub- tribe Diseae. 

 Genus Satyeium. 



Satyrium stenopetalum, Lindley, Gen. d- Sp. Orch., p. 336 

 (1838). — Yar. brevicalcaratuin, a forma typica differt : habitu saepius 

 robustiore ; bracteis magis inflatis ; periantbii segmentis latioribus ; 

 labelli calcaribus brevioribus ovario vix longioribus. {E.v exempli, plur. 

 viv.) — 5. parviporum, Lindley, Gen. cO Sp. Orch., p. 836 (1838) non 

 Sicartz : S. marginatum, Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.), vol. xx, 

 p. i76 (1884) ; ih., Orch. Cape Penins., in Tratu. S. A. Philosoph. Sue, 

 vol. V, p. 127 (1888). 



Hab : South-western Region ; Cape Colony : frequent in moist 

 places on tbe sandy flats south and south-east of Cape Town, at 25-30 

 met. alt., fl. Oct., Echlon, No. 1561 !, 3913 ! ; Dre>je, 1260a ! ; Pappe, 

 65, 66 ! ; Bolus, 4550 ! ; MacOican d- Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 

 No. 691 ! ; Sir Lowry's Pass, and near Ceres, alt. 450 met.. Bolus; 

 Tulbagh Waterfall, 370 met., Nov., Bolus, 5551 ! 



Plate 72. Fig. 1, flower, front view; 2, one of the side sepals; 

 3, one of tbe petals ; 4, lip, posterior view ; 5, odd sepal ; 6, column, 

 front view ; 7, ditto, side view ; 8, section of the ovary, — all variously 

 magnified. 



Characters of the typical form (see preceding plate) differing 

 by its generally more robust habit; the segments of the perianth 

 wider ; spurs of the lip shorter, scarcely exceeding the ovary. 



Described and drawn from a living plant gathered at Kenil- 

 worth, near Cape Town. Colour of the side sepals light pink, 

 sometimes nearly white, rest of tbe flower white with faint green 

 lines. I am indebted to Mr. Schlechter, who collected the typical 

 form, for pointing out to me the essential identity of the present 

 plant (which Lindley mistook for and published as S. 2)arvi- 

 Jiorum, Swartz, — a very diflerent plant) with Lindley 's own S. 

 stenopetalum. When Mr. N. E. Brown had discovered, by his 

 laborious and careful examination of Thunberg's herbarium, 

 that Lindley had gone wrong, it seemed that a new name was 



