slowly, but is easily managed, and flowers freely during the 
spring and summer. 
Descr. Plant about a foot high. Leaves thick, round and 
tapering, six inches long. Flowers produced, two or three in 
succession, on a very short spike. Sepals and petals a pale 
yellowish-green, the dorsal sepal being more concave and 
broader than the side sepals, which are ligulate, keeled along 
the back, and blunt at their extremities, and not half the 
length of the petals; the latter, which hang down like the 
ears of a rabbit, are more than an inch long, cuneate-oblong, 
and rather sharp at the end. Lip not so long as the petals, 
fleshy, convex, with two auricles at its base, the portion above 
which is transversely obovate, and slightly cordate, its disk is 
beautifully marked—after the manner of some species of 
Ophrys—with dark violet-purple spots on a green ground. 
Column very dwarf.—.J. B. 
Fig. 1. Front view of flower. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
