combined species. What has suggested to Willdenow 
the resemblance of its tlower to any of the Saw-flies, we 
cannot guess, as he does not appear to have seen either 
figure or specimen. The synonym from a later publication 
by Prof. Desfontaines we have added upon our own judg~ 
ment. 
Tubers twin, undivided. Lower leaves 4-5, elliptically 
lanceolate, about 3 inches long, upper 2-3 narrowly lan- 
ceolate, convolutely folded upright. Stem about twice their 
height. Spike loose, 3-8-flowered. Bractes of a faded pink- 
colour with green lines, upright, lanceolate, folding round 
the germens which they overtop. Corolla nodding, cruci- 
formly ringent, rather spreading, nearly an inch from top 
to bottom; petals 5, pink; exterior 3 of one length, stand- 
ing apart, smooth, obtuse, green-keeled, middle one of 
these upright elliptic vaulted, side ones horizontally ex- 
tended; interior 2 alternate, diminutive, tomentose at the 
inner surface, inclining over the column. Label broadly 
obcordate, contracted aboye the base, bilobedly retuse 
with a small intermediate fleshy rigid flat-pressed turned- 
up point; on the inner surface greenish yellow, covered 
with a velvet-like pubescence, marked with a large chestnut 
coloured stain, comprehending at the base a smaller smooth 
polyedrously scutiform one, edged with white and sur- 
mounted by а reddish brown fulgid glandular preminence, 
resembling the thorax of some species of insect. Anther in 
two distinct cells, terminal, upright, compressed, narrow, 
rostrate, crooked; cells adjacent, open in front; pollen- 
masses with a separate glandular base to each; not as in 
Orcuis with a glandular base common to both. Mr. Brown. 
observes, that both genera, as now defined, are wholly 
extratropical, and confined chiefly to Europe. 
