Tan. 6255. 
SERAPIAS paprisonaczo-Lineva (hybrid). 
Native of Southern France. 
Nat. Ord. Orchipem—Tribe OPHRYDER. 
Genus Serapias, Linn. (Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid. p. 377). 
SERAPIAS papilionaceo-lingua ; foliis anguste lanceolatis, bracteis flores sequantibus 
v. superantibus, spica breviuscula 5-6-flore, sepalis ovatis subacutis 
patentibus pallide virescentibus roseo-suffusis, petalis liberis sepalis conco- 
loribus et subequantibus late ovatis subacutis, labello late cordato 3-lobo 
late purpureo marginibus crenulatis, lobis rotundatis, lateralibus magnis — 
intermedio minore, columna brevi appendice brevissimo ovato terminata. 
8. Sane ee aay Barla, Flore Illust. de Nice et des Alpes M aritimes, p. 34. 
$. 2205 Aes. 
S. triloba, Viv. Ann. Bot. vol. i. pars 2, p. 186, et Fl. Ital. Fragm. p. 11. t. 12. £1. 
Lindt. Gen. and Sp. Orchid. p. 378. Koch, Synops: Fl. Germ. ed. 2. p. 799. 
Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. p.9 et 171. t. 488. Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. iii. p. 438. 
Is1as triloba, De Not. in Mem. del’ Acad. R. delle Scienz. di Torino, 1844, ser. 2. 
vol. vi. cum Ie. : 
This very rare remarkable terrestrial Orchid is presumed to 
be a natural hybrid between Serapias Lingua, Linn. (tab. 
Hort. 5868 B) and Orchis papilionacea, Linn., having been 
found in considerable abundance growing in company with 
those plants, and with Serapias longipetala, Poll (a species 
closely allied to J. Lingua). The morphological characters ~ 
upon which its hybrid origin are believed to be well founded 
are the free petals, the fine purple colour of the lip, differ- 
ing entirely from that of any Serapias, its crenulated margin 
and its large lateral lobes; to these I should add as 
of greater importance than any of them, the short stout — 
column and its very small short broad ovate beak, which 
beak, in all the known species of Serapias, is linear and as 
long as or longer than the column. 
This hybrid was first found near Genoa, and subsequently — 
at Berre, near Nice, and other places on the Riviera, as well 
as near Trieste and Lucca, and there are Herbarian specimens 
at Kew from the department of Gers, in France. It must 
not be confounded with a very closely allied hybrid between 
O. laxiflora and Serapias cordigera, which has been found as 
