Tas. 507A. 
ORCHIS FoLiosa. 
Leafy Orchis. 
Nat. Ord. OxncHIDEHZ.—GYNANDRIA MonoeGyYNIa. 
Gen. Char. Flores galeati. Sepala subsequalia; supremum cum petalis in for- 
nicis speciem connivens ; lateralia nunc convergentia nunc reflexa. Petala erecta, 
sepalo subeequalia. Ladellum anticum, calcaratum, integrum Vv. indivisum, cum 
basi column connatum. -Anthera erecta, loculis contiguis parallelis. Glandule 
polleniorum 2, distincte, cucullo communi (i.e. plicatura cucullata stigmatis &. 
rostelli) inclusee.—Herbee éerrestres, radicibus tuberculiferis, foliis plerisque radi- 
calibus tactu mollibus subsucculentis sepe maculatis. Lindl. 
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Orcuts foliosa ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis laxe vaginantibus, spica 
oblonga multiflora, sepalis ovatis acutis, labello latiore quam longo obsolete 
trilobo plano, laciniis lateralibus emarginatis intermedia acuta multo ma- 
joribus, calcare pendulo cornuto labello duplo breviore, bracteis herbaceis 
acuminatis flore spe longioribus, tuberculis palmatis. Lindl. 
Orcuts foliosa. Soland. MSS. in Herb. Banks. Lowe, Primit. Fl. Mader. p. 13. 
Lindley, Bot. Reg. t. 1101; Sert. Orchid. t. 44. 
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This fine Orchis is a good deal allied, it must be confessed, 
to our Orchis latifolia, but nevertheless truly distinct ; differ- 
ing, as Dr. Lindley assures us, in being larger 1m all its parts, ; 2 
having a distinctly three-lobed, flat lip, instead of a lozenge- 
shaped convex one, a shorter and more slender spur, and a 
taller stem. It is a species peculiar to the island of Madeira, 
and is found, according to the Rev. Mr. Lowe, from whom we 
possess specimens, in rocky banks of Ribeiro Frio, amongst 
grass and bushes of Spartium candicans, at an elevation upon 
the hills of 3000 feet. Our roots were sent to us by Mr. Fraser, 
of the Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh, in 1857, and the pre- 
sent individual flowered in a cool greenhouse 10 1858. Mr 
Lowe gathered one native specimen which measured two feet 
seven inches in height. 2 
Duscr. Zuders palmated. Stem and foliage resembling greatly 
those of Orchis latifolia, spotless. Bracteas leafy among the 
flowers, but generally shorter than they. Spike ovate or oblong- 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1858. 
