spotted with brown as they go off. Serpaxs or outer divisions of the 
perigon oblong, mee sharpish or more or less blunt, rather 
longer than the lum. PeTaxs or inner divisions similar, but 
narrower and pais shorter. LaBELLum ‘perfectly Hétinot-chnped, 
with a longitudinal sharp rib along the back, the two spurs rather 
shorter than the ovary and closely clasping it. CoLumn elongated. 
ANTHER cells parallel. 
Popunar aND GeocrapHicat Notice. In the fifth part of Lind- 
ley’s Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants, there are thirty-eight 
species of this genus enumerated, of which by far the greater number 
are found in the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, apparently ex- 
tending all along the high range of mountains which run parallel to 
the south coast, some few having also been gathered by Drége in Caffer 
land, beyond the limits of the colony, but still not far from the south 
coast. Three species have been found in Madagascar, one in the 
Isle of Bourbon, and three in the mountains of East India. It is one 
of those genera which, in South Africa, takes the place of our Orchises 
and Ophrydes, and appears fully to equal them in beauty, though from 
the difficulty of bringing them home and keeping them in cultivation, we 
are but little acquainted with them. The present species which has 
never yet been figured, and probably now cultivated for the first time 
_in Great Britain, has a wide range in the Cape Colony, being found in 
various places, from the Table Mountain to Algoa Bay in Uitenhage. 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GRowN; CuLTurRE. Collected on the 
Table Mountain, by a young German named Siebold, it was by him 
transmitted to Mr. Skirving, of Walton Nursery, near Liverpool, in 
May, aie _ the bathe iene ssiaiiee a uinber of specimens 
i I (1839) 
werk 
when our — was ales from one of them. 
DerrvaTion oF THE NAMEs. 
Satyrrom an old name of Dioscorides, applied by him and Pliny to various 
plants supposed to have stimulating properties. _As some of them ere 
probably Orchidex, if 
none of pty — — amen belongs to the genus to which the name 
has now b Erecrom, upright tall. 
SyNonyMEs, 
pa Siate Erecrum. Thunberg: Flora Capensis, Schultes’s edition, p. 16. 
Lindley: Genera and Species, p. 340. 
