SATY RIUM EREC'TUM. 
~ UPRIGHT SATYRIUM. 
OR MONOCOTS 
Natural division 
1 | to whi i 
this plant belongs. 
ENDOGEN&, 
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NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACE. 
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GYNANDROS&, Artificial ‘ot 
OF to which tee nap A, 
LINDLEY. this Plant belongs. LINNEUS, 
No. 117. 2 
GENUS. Satyrium. Swarrz. Periantuivum ringens, is inferiore Ag 
Cotumna sessilis aut elongata. ANTHERA resupinata, loculis oaralich ; aut divergen- 
tibus. GuanpuLa polliniorum nudz, discrete. Sr1ema bilabiatum, labio superio re 
maximo inferius superante. Hers habitu Orchidis. Raprces testiculate. 
Liwptey : Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants, p. 335. 
SPECIES. Saryrrum erecrom. Tauneerc. Forts ovato-lanceolatis 
oblongis coriaceis margine sisagtucks seabris patentibus, ak in vaginis 
cavis demum reflexis corolla longioribus, sepalis oblongis tee linea ibus 
acutis labello —— galeato fere longioribus, calcaribus ovario paulo brevi- 
oribus. LrnDLE 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Surearn. PERIANTH gaping, the 
pre one of the helmet- 
elongated. ANTHER resupinate, the eelld parallel 
GLANDS of the pollen masses naked, distinct. Strema two-lipped, 
the upper one large and projecting beyond the lower. 2 
Description oF THE Species Satyrivum EREcTUM. STEM a 
foot and a half or more in height, green and marked, especially int ie 
lower part, with vinous purple spots. Leaves clasping the stem, 
ovate lanceolate, sharp, very broad at the base, ieee he marked 
below with more or less of spots similar to t n, 
lower ones nearly six inches long, the upper on dually diminish- 
ing to the size of the floral brwets. SPIKE dein elongating after 
the flowering, each flower sessile at the axil of a bract, Jonger than 
the flower, and reflexed after it fades. Ovarium flat next the stem, 
convex in front, and marked with three prominent ribs, of which two 
are waved. FLowErs varying through every shade of colour, from 
Stine vermillion to a pale and sickly yellow, becoming more or less 
