144 ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). [Satyridium. 
XXVII. SATYRIDIUM, Lindl. 
Sepals free, subequal, spreading or reflexed. Petals free, rather 
narrower than the lateral ee ee ve Pst gi sessile at 
the base of the column, erect, cucullate, nate or rostrate, 
produced behind into a pair of shirt oblong Aepodhitthg sacs. Column 
erect under the lip, rather short, divide t the apex into two lobes, 
hors ahited to a single orbicular gland. Ovary and pedicel not 
twisted. 
An erect glabrous herb, — a few thickened roots ; leaves few and gets: 
som eeuhee ke spreading, with a few sheaths o ice lower part 0 of the stem, reduc 
upwards into the ssnonsla sik somewhat aed e, many-flowered ; flowers aha 
small; bracts membran medium-sized, relicaed after Pps ng. 
Distris. A single species, confined to the south-western corner of Cape 
Colony. 
1. S. rostratum (Lindl. Gen. & nia Orch. cone plant }-1} ft. 
high, with rather slender stem; leaves 2—4, asal or nearly so, 
suberect or somewhat spreading, tannealate or oblong, subacute, 
inside the lip and spurs, and the anther carmine ; odd sepal oblong, 
obtuse, about } in. long ; lateral sepals rather longer than the od 
one and somewhat falcate and spreading; petals elliptic-oblong, 
rather larger than the odd sepal, sometimes minutely toothed at 
the apex ; lip scarcely galeate, ovate at the base, produced into an 
oblong obtuse Aiihine tit incurved beak above, about 24 lin. long ; 
spurs oblong, very stout, obtuse, about } in. long ; column straight, 
2 lin. long; foe elliptic, obtuse, } lin. long; rostellum very 
inute. Drége, i Pf. Docu 
30%, aia Beitr FL. Cag: und Natal. 159; Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 55, 
87. Satyrium rhynchanthum, Bolus in Trans. 8S. Afr. roost we: 
v. 133, #. 25, Orch. Cap. Penins. 133, t. 25, and in Journ. Lin 
xxv, 195; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. ‘Afr. v. 98; Kriinal. Oreh. 
Gen. et Sp. i. 657; Schlechter in pt Jahrb. xxi. 193. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Villett ! 
Coast Recion: Worcester as ; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 en cee 1245! 
Hex River, Ecklon & Zeyher. Paarl Div. ; Fre nch Hoek Pass wet spongy 
ig, Harve ey! Schlechter, sai: Cape Div.; Stein Berg, near  ieeohaee. 
1100 ft., Bodkin in MacOwan vat : ! 
4946, 4999 ; Table Mountain, 3000 ft., Harvey! Prior! Vley, Wolley- 
2121! marshes on Constantia Berg, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 207 ; near — Town, 
Wilms, 646. Caledon Div. ; near Villiersdorp, 1300 ft., "Bolus, 5277 ! 
