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OPHRYS Speculum, 

 Mirror -lipped Ophrys, 



GYNANDMA MONJNDRIA, 



Nat. ord. Ohchide^e. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. I. 30% Dh. J. 

 Anthera adnata subtermmalis persistens. Pollinis masste £ lobulis angulatis 

 eJastice cohasrentibus; basi affixae. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 188, 



OPHR YS. SuprZ vol. S.foL 205. 



O. Speculum; folia caulina lanceolata. Petala 3 exteriora expansa, acuti* 

 uscula, viridia, interiora 2 acuta, purpurea* Labelli laciniae Jaterale* 

 erectee, media rotundata emarginata non appendiculata, medio glaber* 

 rima, cserulescens, limbo villoso fusco. Link in Schraders journ.Jur die 

 lot. 1799- 2. 324; (male a JVilldenovio ad Ophhydem Scolopacem citata; 

 cut tamen vere periinei Ophrys Speculum Biv, Bern. sic. pL cent* 1. 61. 



*. 70./. 4.) 

 Ophrys ciliata. Biv. Bemardi sic.pl. cent* 1. 60. ». 69. 

 Opltrys insectifera; myodes. £. Lin. $p* pi. ed. 2* 2. 1343. 

 Orchis muscam casruleam inajorem representans. Breyn* cent. 100. U 44. 



Moris, hist. 3. 494. sect. 12. t. IS.Jig* II. 

 Orchis Ricinum villosum referens. Cup.panph. 1. /. 175. Hort. cath. 158; 



el. suppl. alt. 68. — Bonan. t. 28. 



Nil pulchrius. Radix bulbi 2 subrotundi. Caulis $~G~uncialis, Jbltis Ian- 

 ceolatis vaginatus, paucijlorus. Flores in spied laxd muscas circumvolantes 

 mire referunt. Petalura superius fornicatum, columnam tegens, marginibus 

 revolutis; 2 later alia paientia, ovata, viridia, Jascid rosea per medium. Oper- 

 cula (petala 2 interiora) petalis (exlerioribns) dujAo breviora 9 angu$ti$$ima f 

 acuminata, intense purpurea, recurvata. Nectarii labium (Labellum) tri- 

 lobum, cczruleum, splendens, Umbo barbato barbd purpurea ; lobo medio ex- 

 porrecto, obovato, convexo, emarginata, mutico ; lateralibus angustioribus 9 

 suspenses alarum instar. Columna obtusa. Biv. Bern. 1. c. 



One of the prettiest of the genus, and now first intro- 

 duced by Mr. Swainson; by whom the excellent design, 

 from which our engraving has been made, was taken from 

 a sample that flowered in his garden at Elm Grove, near 

 Liverpool, in Febrnaiy last. The species is native of Portu- 

 gal and Sicily, in the latter of which countries Mr. Swainson 

 tells us that it is very rare, and that he never found it in 

 any other place except in the hilly meadows behind the 

 Convent of Santa Maria di Gesft, near Palermo. ^ Link 

 speaks of it as growing in Portugal, and abundantly in the 

 neighbourhood of Setuval. 



Our plant has been erroneously adduced by Willdenow 



