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very broad lip, the lateral segments of which are always wider than the 
middle one, and deeply notched. The flowers vary from dark purple to 
pink or white; and, although spotted with crimson on a white ground in 
the middle of the lip, are by no means so gaily variegated as O. longicornis. 
Quid O. morio, Loureir. 2, 629, in sylvis montosis Cochinchine ? 
31. Oncnis longicornis. Desf. Fl. Atl. 2, 317, t. 246. 
O. foliis oblongo-linearibus obtusis, sepalis oblongis obtusis, labello trilobo 
sepalis zequali calcare horizontali apice inflato breviore: laciniis laterali- 
bus subintegris intermediz zqualibus v. minoribus. 
a. labelli lobis lateralibus integris atropurpureis rotundatis, intermedio 
albo variegato. 
O. longicornis. Bot. Mag. t. 1944. Bot. Reg. t. 202. Rchb. Fl. Excurs. 122. 
B. labelli lobis subeequalibus intermedio ovato lateralibus truncatis den- 
tatis. 
O. picta. Lois, Fl. Gall. t. 26. 
Y. labelli lobis lateralibus oblique truncatis dentatis acutis intermedio 
rotundato minoribus. 
? O. morio. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. 2, 364. 
Hab. in Europe Australioris et Barbarie pratis necnon Taurie ; a. in Sicilia, 
Gussone, Algeria, Desf., Italia, Tenore; B. in Gallia meridionali, Loise- 
leur, Helvetia, Schleicher; y. in Russia meridionali, Prescott (v. v. c. et 
hab. s. sp.) 
The small size of the lip, and the greater width of its middle than lateral 
lobes, taken together with the inflated apex of its long spur, abundantly dis- 
tinguish this species. The French and Swiss specimens are paler than those 
from the south of Europe. In the genuine state of the species, as it occurs 
im Barbary and the south of Italy, the two lateral lobes of the lip are 
intensely purple and separated by a well defined line of colour from the 
"middle lip; but in the varieties 9. and y. the purple is no darker than what 
18 seen in O. morio. No two species can well be more distinct than this 
and O. morio, if they are once correctly understood. 
*** Labello 4-fido vel 4-partito. 
32. Orcuis spherica. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. 2, 362. 
O. foliis omnibus lanceolatis acutis, spicà subglobosà, sepalis aristatis, 
labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus acutiusculis incurvis intermedio quadrato 
retuso apiculato subzequalibus, calcare labello breviore, bracteis lineari- 
subulatis herbaceis floribus brevioribus. 
Hab. in Iberia media, Steven (hab. s. sp. comm. cel. Prescott.) 
Reichenbach combines this with O. globosa ; but it differs not only in the 
Characters above mentioned, and in its white flowers, but also in its much 
narrower bracts, more aristate sepals, which never terminate in a blunt 
appendage, and in its broader and shorter labellum. 
33. Oncnis globosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1332. 
O. folio inferiore oblongo obtuso superioribus lanceolatis acutis, spica sub- 
globosà, sepalis aristatis apice sæpè appendiculatis, labelli trilobi angusti 
lobis lateralibus truncatis divergentibus intermedio rhomboideo emargi- 
