reversed by a half turn of either the germen or pedicle, 4 
secondary process consequent upon expansion. In the pre- 
sent genus no such process takes place, and the corolla re- 
tains its connatural position till it decays. 
It was in this genus that the middle petal of the lower 
lip had been mistaken by Swartz for the label of the corolla, 
and the mistake rectified by Mr. Brown, who has shown the 
helmet-shaped petal at the back of the flower to be the 
true label; a part always determinable by its position in 
relation to the germen, being the middle petal of the three 
inner ones, all opposite to the three valves of the germen, 
while the three outer ones are opposite to the three in- 
tervening prominent riblike sutures. The label is usually 
different from the other petals, either in consistence, form, 
or colour; sometimes in all three ways. 
We are convinced that the species before us is the same 
with Saryrium erectum of Thunberg’s Flora Capensis, though 
possibly different from the plant intended by Swartz under 
that name. 
The drawing of this rare and handsome-flowered vege- 
table was taken in the greenhouse of Mr. Lee at Hammer- 
smith; where it had been imported from the Cape of Good 
Hope, the native place of the species. 
We doubt much whether Saryrium parviflorum of 
Swartz (Orcuis bicornis, Jacq. hort. Schanb. 2. 26. t. 179) 
is distinct from Satyrium cucullatum (fol. 416) of this 
work, which is certainly Orcuis bicornis of the first edition 
of Hortus Kewensis, and Satyrium cucullatum of the se- 
cond. We believe several of the recorded species of this 
genus are mere iterations. . 
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‘Dispersed in some of the earlier yolumes of “ ‘The Jour- 
nal of Science and the Arts” will be found sixteen coloured 
representations taken from the living plants of as many 
rare and curious species of Orchidew belonging to the Cape — 
of Good Hope, all of them executed with great accuracy, 
The original drawings are in Mr. Brown’s library; but the 
name of the meritorious Dutch artist, who drew them for 
Mr. Masson, the then King’s collector, is unknown. (See 
last page of fol. 700.). 
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