116 ORCHIDE# (Rolfe). [Satyrium. 
Schlechter, 5906. Port Elizabeth Div. ; sandy dunes on the coast near Port 
Elizabeth, Hallack in Herb. Bolus, 5929! 
A very robust s species, bearing some resemblance to S. carneum, R. Br., but 
pester different in the shape of the stigma. I have not seen the Knysna 
Spec: 
8. carneum (R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 196); plant 
1-2 ny high ; stems stout; leaves 2, radical, subsessile, spreading, 
ovate or orbicular-ovate, subobtuse, 3-8 in apes 
1-2 ft. high, with several ovate or spathaceous siglo the lower 
sometimes. subfoliaceous ; spikes oblong, 3—8 in. long, dense, Pies? 
flowered ; bracts ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or sibebtusts —] in. 
long ; pedicels about } in. long ; flowers large, pink or rose-coloured ; 
sepals and petals united at the base ; odd sepal lanceolate-oblong, 
obtuse, 6-8 lin. long ; lateral sepals spreading, rather larger than 
i e e od 
column curved, 6-7 lin. long; stigma oblong, obtuse, somewhat 
curved, 24 lin. long; rostellum ovate-oblong, subacute, over half as 
long as the stigma. Bot. Mag. t. 1512; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 
3 ss . ‘ 
ifr. v. 9¢ , 
98 ; Krinzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp.i. 677 ; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 
145. 8S. cucullatum, Thunb. Fl. Clap, ed. i. 88, and ed. Schult. 17, 
ios Orchis carnea, Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew: od. 1, iti, 294. 
H Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Brown! Wrig ght 130! Grey! 
Con = Reeton: Cape Div. ; Simons Bay, Wright, 143! sandy plains near 
ote Town, Rear. 4991! flats between ogi prec and Muizen agen Bolus, 4881 ! 
near Fish Hoek and neighbouring hills up to 800 ft., Bolus, 4881; Re ill 
Wolley-Dod, 1868! Knysna Diy. ; Groene Vallei, under 500 ft., Drége, 8293! 
XXIX. AVICEPS, Lindl. 
Seals and petals united into a broadly oblong Abeer papillose 
Inab almost to the apex. Lip s upene sessile at the ase of the 
column, erect, cucullate, broadly ovate, acute, produced behind into 
a pair of saceate or broadly oblong descending spurs. Column erect 
surface, the lower anticous and forming the rostellum, Anther 
hanging under the rostellum ; cells parallel ; pollinia granular, each 
with a short stipes and distinct gland. Ovary and pedicel not 
twisted. 
A dwarf glabrous herb, with nec li tubers ; leaves a basal 
spreading ; spikes very short, subcapitate, and almost finchided within? the err’ 
