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OPHRYS cornuta. 
Horned Ophrys. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE=. § OpHRER — SERAPIADA. (ORCHIDS, 
Vegetable Kingdom, p. 173.) 
OPHRYS. L. 
$ 2. Cornuta. Labello basi utrinque cornuto.—Lindl. Orch. p. 374. 
O. cornuta; perigonii segmentis interioribus convolutis villosis columna ros- 
trata duplo brevioribus, labelli segmento medio obovato subretuso 
breviter appendiculato convexo fusco-nigricante velutino, corniculis 
lateralibus in appendicem subulatam hamato-adscendentem elongatam 
productis.—Grisebach, Fl. Rumel. ii. p. 367. 
O. cornuta, Stev. mem. mosg: 2. 174. t. 10. Rchb. ic. Europ. t. 1870. 
Lindl. Orch. p. 375. 
O. bicornis, Sadler in Linnea, 205. litt. 
“O. oestrifera, Expédition à la Morée, t. 31. f. 1. $ t. 32. f. 8." fide Griseb. 
“O. estrifera, Wahlenb.” Griseb. 
This curious little plant has long been known as an inha- 
bitant of the Crimea; and it had been recently discovered in 
Dalmatia by Baron Welden, in Hungary by Nentwich, and in 
Macedonia by Frivaldsky. But it remained for the Dean of 
Manchester to give it a more southern locality, by detecting 
in Corfu the specimens now figured. 
The markings of the lip are very singular, but variable, 
as will be seen from the two sorts in our plate; and it would 
seem that this variation goes further, for Grisebach describes 
the Roumelian form with a greenish calyx, yellow spots in the 
middle of the lip, and blue horns. 
The specimens represented in the accompanying plate 
flowered in Dr. Herbert's drawing-room in London. 
