far north as Vannes in Brittany. I am indebted to Mr. 
Elwes for the specimen here figured which he received from 
M. Max Leichtlin, of Carlsruhe. 
Descr. Tuber globose ; one sessile the other shortly stalked. 
Stem a foot or more high and leaves pale green, unspotted. 
Leaves narrow, lanceolate, acuminate. Spikes short, 5-6- 
flowered ; bracts equalling or exceeding the flowers, green and 
pink, purple. Flower 14-1? inch long from the tip of the 
dorsal sepal to that of the lip. Sepals and petals pale green 
and pale purple, veined; the petals erect, free, broader than 
usual in Serapias, spreading andrecurved. Lzp large, broadly 
cordate, bright red-purple margins crenulate ; base with 
two tubercles on the very short claw; lateral lobes rounded, 
larger than the mid-lobe which is almost orbicular. Column 
short, stout, its apex produced into a small broadly ovate 
appendage.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Column and lip; 2, pollen-masses :—both enlarged. 
