Satyrium. | ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 145 
XXVIII. SATYRIUM, Sw. 
Sepals subequal or the lateral sei i ATORNES or reflexed. 
Petals more or less united to the sepals the base, similar to or 
narrower than the odd or front sepal. Lip sap634 sessile at the 
base of the column, erect, galeate or cucullate e more or less 
united 4 the lateral sepals, produ uced behind into a pair of prrner 
spurs “thor rarely without a _Sac. Column erect unt the lip, 
Anther vende under the restalluae or horizontal; cells nearly 
Terrestrial herbs with ovoid or globose tubers ; leaves few and basal, sometimes 
prostrate on the grou sa or more numerous and. cauline, decreasing upwards into 
the fences spikes ually dense or many-flowered ; flowers small or medium- 
sized ; bracts m embranous oe large, often reflexed after flowering. 
Distrip. Specie 0, most numerous in extra-tropical ition Africa, 
but copiously soar eg in ioe ropical Africa, with a few representatives in the 
Mascarene Islands and two or three others in India and South ames 
*Lips with 2 short broad sacs at the 
ged usually br oad, ate Sane green; plants 
Lip broadly concave, — arched at the nant : 
few 
t deflexed . (1) striatum, 
Lip more or les perenne galeate sinawaile Pass 
‘numerous ; bracts more or less defi exed : 
Lip 1-14 lin. long : flowers not stri 
Apex of ad not defile: 
Flowers small ; sepals ‘ale llin.long  ... (2) debile. 
Flowers fey ; sepals 14 lin. or more Jira 
Spurs broadly saccate, under 4 lin. long ... (3) lindleyanum. 
Spurs saccate-oblong, about 1 lin. ... (4) retusum 
Apex of lip gebanes deflexed in front . ... (5) bicallosum. 
Lip 2 eg or more long ; flowers ponies in striped 
Brac ample, nine 4 ‘strongly acuminate, 3—} in 
Same leaves much larger than the upper... (6) cordifolium. 
ak ial gigas —. into the 
.. (7) Fanninie. 
Bracts sale, acute, 3-6 lin . long 
Plant suberect or ieeanhent spike rather 
as a few-flowered ..- .. (8) saxicolum. 
nase: 
Nerves a vip d dstnety papillate : 
Lip as roader than long ... (9) lineatum. 
Lip mo ete. ably 
Lower leaves ovate, half as me as 
10 ong .. (10) bracteatum. 
Lower leaves ies or romeeobl ong: 
half as broad as lon oD) ~— 
VOL. V.—SECT. III. 
