1525 



• 



e 



ACERAS* secundifiora 



One-sided Acer as. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchideje. § Ophrydea? Lindl. {Introduction to the na- 

 tural system of Botany, p. 262.) 



A CERAS R.Brown. — Perianthium clausum, eestivatione valvata. Petala 

 sepalis multo angustiora. Labellum brevissim^ saccato-calcaratum, v. gib- 

 bosum, pendulum v. patens, tripartitum. Columna erecta, bilocularis, loculis 

 parallelis basi approximatis, caudiculis glandulse solitarise cucullo unico 



inclusse adheerentibus. Herboe, radicibus carnosis fasciculatis, lobo uno 



alterove incrassato. Flores luteo-herbacei, v. obscurk violacei, labello seep£ 

 maculato discolore. 



A. secundifiora ; foliis maculatis, spica densa secunda parviflora, petahs 

 subulatis, labello patente oblongo sepalis sequali basi gibboso tnlobo : 

 lobo intermedio obovato mucronulato. 



Satyrium maculatum. Desf.fl. atl. 2. 3l9,fide Cambesstdes. 



Ophrys densiflora. Desf. coroll. p. 11. t. 16. 



Orchis secundifiora. " Bertolon. amcen. Hal. 82." Cambess. enum. pi. 



balear. 140. Spreng. syst. veg. 3. 687. 



Radix carnosus oblongus, indivisus. Folia radicalia oblong a f erecta, 

 plicata, carnosa, maculata. Scapus in cultd spithamaus , in spontaned 

 humilior, erectus, apice spicam densam secundam forum parvorum obscuri 

 violaceorum gerens. Sepala ovata, acuta, eestivatione valvari. Petala 

 subulata, sepalorum longitudine. Labellum patens, sepala non excedens, 

 oblongum, basi concavum, sacculatum, trilobum ; lobis lateralibus linearibus 

 acutis, intermedio obovato mucronato longiore. Columna minima, generis. 



This plant seems to have an unusually extensive geo 

 graphical range for an Orchis. Bertoloni found it in Proyenc* 

 and Liguria; Cambessedes gathered it on the Puig-di 



* So called by Dr. Brown, from x, priv., and xi^, a horn ; in allusion to 

 the primd facie difference between the original species and Orchis. After- 

 wards Richard altered it to Loroglossum, because one of the species was 

 found to have a horn. Then Professor Sprengel changed the name to 

 Himantoglossum, because he did not like Loroglossum. Finally, we retain 

 Dr. Brown's name, because it was the first, and is as good as the others, and 

 because we do not approve of these idle changes. 



