372 OPHRYDES. 
Hab. in Borbonia, et Mauritio. (exam. s. sp. in hb. Lehm. et Hooker.) 
The description of this plant given by Ach. Richard in the place above 
quoted is at variance with this character ; but it appears to me that he has 
fallen into some errors in his account of the structure of the species. The 
petals, which he calls ** minima," I find as long as the upper sepal and 
pressed close to it; the divaricating and lengthened bases of the anther 
are, I presume, the cartilaginous arms of the stigma. 
CCXI. OPHRYS. 
Ophrys. Swartz, Act. Holm. 1800, p. 222, t. 3, f. D. R. Brown in Hort. Kew. 5. 195. 
Richard, Orch. Eur. annot. p. 26. 
Perianthium explanatum, regulare ; petalis nanis. Labellum dependens, 
convexum, integrum vel trilobum, szpits villosum, nunc callis vel 
cornibus 2 prope basin munitum, ecalcaratum. Columna erecta, libera, 
sæpiùs acuminata ; antherA anticá, loculis parallelis basi approximatis. 
Pollinia 2 ; caudiculis totidem cucullis distinctis inclusis. Stigma e 
facie columne excavatum.—— —Herbz Europae, Asiatice, et Mauri- 
tanice, radicibus testiculatis. : 
Of this beautiful genus I give little more than a catalogue; for I find 
it impossible to ascertain from dried specimens (the only materials a bo- 
tanist resident in this country can have) the limits of the species, or the 
nature of the variation to which they are subject. 
$ 1. Murıcæ. Labello basi mutico. 
1. Opurys vespifera. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. 65. 
O. labello mutico glaberrimo trilobo : lobis rotundatis medio emarginato, 
caule paucifloro. 
O. insectifera D. glaberrima. Desf. Atl. 2, 321. 
O. glabra. Pers. Syn. 2, 510. 
Hab. in Barbaria, Desfontaines. 
This appears to be well distinguished by its smooth lip. It must not be 
confounded with the O. vespifera of Swartz, which is O. lutea. 
2. Ornnvs lutea. Cav. ic. 9. 46. t. 160. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. 70. Hooker 
exot. fl. t. 10. Rehb. ic. Eur. t. 857. 
O. labello mutico oblongo trilobo apice dilatato limbo gl 
disco sanguineo velutino : lobo intermedio rotundato, peta 
O. vespifera. Pers. Syn. 2, 510. 2 
Hab. in Europa meridionali ; Lusitania et Hispania, umbrosis homily yen 
vanilles ; Gibraltaria ; Apulid et Aprutio, Tenore ; Sicilia, Presl ; 6a 
australi propre Monspelium, Bentham. (hab. s. sp.) 
This seems to vary in the degree of smoothness an 
the figure given by Rchb., which corresponds with my French sp 
represents one extreme, that by Hooker the other. 
aberrimo luteo 
lis glabris. 
d division of its lip ; 
ecimens, 
3. Ophrys funerea, Vivian. Cors. p. 15. : 
O. labello mutico basin versus sensim coarctato conico tenuissim? gus 
lateribus deflexis antic& trilobo : lobis omnibus rotundatis medio pà 
majore subintegerrimo. 
