SATYRIUM. 



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S. UNGUICULATUS, Liiidl. — This old plant was re-imported by us as a sup- 

 posed new PJialaempsis ; indeed in growth it very much resembles some of the 

 species of that genus. The flower spikes issue from the side of the stems 

 amongst the lower leaves, and are pendent; the sepals and petals are pure 

 ivory-white and thick in texture ; the lip is unguioulate, fleshy, white ; the side 

 lobes striped with reddish-crimson, and the front lobe is spotted with the same 

 colour; flowers produced during the summer months. — Philippme Islands; 

 Bi'niuih. 



Fia.— Orchid Album, vi. t. 266. 



Srx. — T!i fi.r.ij)/-fmiim miguiculatum ; Phalaenopsis Ruclteriana. 



SATYRIUM, SwarU. 

 (Tribe Ophreae, subtribe Satyrieae.) 



A genus of terrestrial habit, natives of South Africa, Northern India, 

 and a few other places, some of the species being exceedingly pretty ; 

 they have tuberous roots and are deciduous ; the spike is many flowered, 

 the flowers being ringent, the sepals and petals are connate at the base, 

 and all directed downwards. There are numerous species and varieties, 

 many of which have from time 

 to time been in cultivation, 

 but they appear to drop out 

 from our collections, mostly 

 through careless treatment 

 during their dormant and 

 resting season, so that when 

 required to start again in the 

 spring of the j-ear they are 

 found to have perished. 



Culture. — The whole of the 

 species thrive in the cool 

 house, or what is still better 

 perhaps, in the cold frame, 

 requiring only to be protected 

 from the frost; they require to be well drained, and to be potted or 

 planted out in a mixture of good turfy loam, some peat and leaf-mould, 

 and a little sharp sand ; water sparingly at first, but when they have 

 grown a little, they may have a more abundant supply, a moist atmo- 

 sphere must be maintained in order to prevent the ravages of thrips. 



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