being in fact originally “ upright,” and the change of pos- 
ture merely the consequence of a subsequent twisting either 
in the pedicle or in the germen which supports it. Hence 
the labellum from a back petal becomes a front one. 
SatyriuM is however an exception, for the middle front 
petal, designated by Swartz, as the Jabellum, has been found 
by Mr. Brown not to be one; the casque at the back of the 
flower being the true labellum, a part which is always de- 
termined by its position in relation to the stamens and pla- 
centa of the germen, by being the middlemost of the 3 inner ° 
petals, and by facing the middlemost of the 3 outer. 
The genus (consisting of about 12 or 13 known species 
from the Cape of Good Hope, of which the present and 
another are all that have been seen in our gardens), accord- 
ing to Mr. Brown, has a ringent corolla with 5 front petals 
connate at the base; a vaulted two-spurred or two-pouched 
labellum situated at the back of the flower; an adnate sub- 
terminal permanent reversed anther, pollen-masses (of angu-. 
lar lobules held together by an elastic substance) affixed 
at the base, and a two-lipped stigma. 
The flowers in all the spontaneous specimens we have 
seen, have changed to a blackish purple hue in drying, and 
if not remembered in the fresh state would pass for the re- 
presentatives of a purple inflorescence in the live subjects, 
To this we impute Thunberg’s describing the flower of the 
species as purple; he always describing from a dried sample 
whenever he treats of Cape plants. We missed the oppor- 
tunity of examining the blossom while alive. 
The plant published by Messrs. Loddiges for Saryrrum 
cucullatum in the Botanical Cabinet, is a very distinct spe- 
cies. 
