SATYRIUM 201 
lax-flowered, 5 to 6 cm. long; the peduncle bearing one to three lanceolate, 
acuminate bracts, Flowers about 1*5 ст. in diam, purple; floral bracts lanceolate, 
acuminate, shorter than the slender curved beaked ovaries, Dorsal sepal erect, 13 mm. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, with a blunt inflexed tip; lateral pair spreading, equalling the 
dorsal in length, faleately oblong. Petals a little shorter than the sepals, obliquely 
ovate, sub-acute, erect and forming a hood with the dorsal sepal. Zip continuous with 
the column, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes rounded and reflexed; mid-lobe broad, suberenate 
bluntly acuminate, pubescent; spur trumpet-shaped, deflexed, shorter than the ovary, 
often lobed at the apex. Anéher-cells nearly parallel, distant. Polliniz obliquely clavate; 
caudicles dilated above, curved; glands minute, discoid, bifid. Capsule 9% cm, long. 
Royle Ш. Him. Bot. 367; Hook, f. Fl. Br. Ind, vi, 167; Krnzl. Orch, Gen, and Sp. i, 
650; Collett Fl. Siml. 506, fig. 167. Platanthera cordifolia Lindl. in Wall, Cat. 7049. 
Simla at 6,000 feet, Gamble Nos. 4650, 6441; Mussoorie range, Falconer, 
Edgeworth, Mackinnon, Duthie No. 21768; Kumaon at 7,000 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom 
No. 87; below Naini Tal 5,000 to 6,000 feet, Colonel Davidson, Duthie No. 4425. Flowers 
during August and September. It extends eastwards to Nepal. 
Рглте 150. НешірШа cordifolia Lindl, А plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, side view 
of flower; 2, front view of ditto, deprived of the sepals and petals and with the 
lip spread out; 3, front view of column; 4, pollinia;—a// enlarged. 
44. Satyrium Swartz. 
Terrestrial erect leafy herbs with undivided oblong tubers. Leaves (in the Indian 
species) large, fleshy, with wide sheaths. Flowers in dense spikes, Sepals and petals 
subsimilar, free, spreading or reflexed. Zip superior (the ovary not being twisted), adnate 
to the base of the column, erect, broad, hood-shaped, 2-spurred or 2-saccate. Column 
much arcned, terete. Stigma single, convex or concave, borne on the upper lobe of the 
column. Anther-cells dorsal or lateral, tumid, sub-parallel, their tubes at a lower level 
than the stigma, pointing forward; pollinia 2, caudicles curved, ending in two large 
sometimes connate glands.—Species about 100, mostly in extra-tropical S. Africa. 
SATYRIUM NEPALENSE, Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 26. 
Whole plant 5 to 75 dm. high; бе’ oval, producing stolons each with a small 
tuber at its end. Stem glabrous, bearing several broad imbricating sheaths at the 
base. Leaves two or three, fleshy, 1 to 2:5 dm. long and 3:5 to 9 сш. broad, narrowly 
elliptic, subacute, their bases broad and sheathing.  Peduncie, clothed with many 
sub-tubular lanceolate-oblong acute or acuminate bracts. Spike 5 to 17 em. long, 
densely flowered. Flowers 8 mm, across at the mouth, pink or white, sweet-scented ; 
floral bract oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, deflexed, much longer than the turgid ovary. 
Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, recurved, ciliolate. Petals narrower than the sepals, obtuse, 
entire. Гір superior, hooded, broadly oblong, keeled on the back; spurs usually twice 
as long as the ovary, Column curved, expanded at the apex. Stigma projecting 
forwards above the anther, convex, anticous. Anther-ceiis turgid, distant and subparallel 
on the sides of the column below the stigma; pollinia 2, pyriform, bipartite; caudicles 
slender, curved, directed downwards and forwards, each ending in a thick discoid gland. 
Staminodes vugulose, placed above the anther-cells; rostellum broadly and bluntly 
Ах» Roy. Вот. Garb., Carco., Vor. IX. 
