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ORCHIS* papiliqnacea. 



Purple Butterfly Orchis, 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRJA 



Nat. ord. Orciiide;e. § Ophrydese Lindley. 



* Labello radicibusque indivisis. 

 O. papilionacea ; labello obovato subemarginato crenulato venoso, sepalis 



obtusiusculis erectls nervosis, gcrmine cornu inflexum acutum superante, 



bracteis coloratis breviore. Sprcngel s7/st. 3. 684. 

 O. papilionacea. Linn. sp. pL 1331. Scop, cam, n. 1103. Willd, sp. 



pL 4. 24. aliorutnque. 

 O. rubra. Jacquin ic, rar. 1. t. 183. Collect. 1. p. 60. 



Radices carnosi, indivisL Folia hrevia^ ohlongo-ensiformia, patentia^ 

 obtnsa. Caxilis erectus, pedalis v, minora vaginis submembranaceis venosisy 

 apice virescentibus. Spica 5-1 -flora. Bracteae mevibranacecBy dilatatce, 

 rosece,venoscBy ovario longiores. Sepala rubro-purpurea^venosa, ascejidentia, 

 inferioribus retrorshm subfalcatis. hd\ye\\\xn\ pallide purpureum^ oblongum, 

 obtusuniy indivisum, subundulatum, crenulatum. Calcar crassum, conicu7n, 

 rectum^ subacutunif ovario brevius* 



A half-hardy species, introduced into this country by 

 M. Mauri, by whom it was sent from Rome to the Horti- 

 cultural Society, in 1826: our drawing was made in the 

 Chiswick Garden, in May 1827. It thrives very well in 

 light soil, if planted in a pot, and kept in a frame during 

 the winter; but it would not bear our climate with less 

 attention. 



A native of most parts of the South of Europe, in 

 Corsica, Liguria, near Monte Nuovo, Rome, and Naples, 

 and also in Barbary. 



By most authors, the O. rubra of Jacquin is considered 



Orchis is a primitive Greek word, which, being interpreted, signifies a 

 small oval fleshy body ; and was applied to the plants that bear its name, in 

 consequence of the figure of the roots according with that interpretation. 



