Tab. 5844 

 OPHRYS Speculum. 



Looking -glass Ophrys. 



Nat. Ord. Oechide^e. — Gynandbia Monandeia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5712.) 



Ophrys Speculum ; sepalis oblongis obtusis viridibus purpureo fasciatis, 

 petalis minutistriangulari-Ianceolatis purpureisrecurvis,labello oblongo- 

 quadrato valde convexo margine dense barbato medio v. altius 3-fido, 

 segmentis lateralibus parvis, intermedio lato retuso, disco plaga glabra 

 caerulea micante aureo-linibata notata, margine late rubro-castaneo, 

 columna obtusa. 



Ophrys Speculum, Link, in Schrad. Diar. Bot. 1799, v. ii. p. 324. Reichb. 



Fl. Germ. Orchid, p. 80, t. 448. 

 O. insectifera, var. Linn. Sp. PI. n. 949. 

 O. vernixia, Brotero, Fl. Lus. p. 24. 

 O. ciliata, Bivoni. Cent. 1, p. 60. 



Amongst the most attractive horticultural novelties of the 

 Spring Exhibitions, during the last two years, have been the 

 groups of terrestrial Orchids, for the most part collected in vari- 

 ous parts of Europe, by His Royal Highness the Comte de 

 Paris, and cultivated by him at Twickenham, and which are 

 no less remarkable for "their botanical interest than for their 

 beauty and the perfect condition of health to which they 

 have been brought by very simple means and appliances. 

 Many belong to the genus Ophrys and of these the subject 

 of the preseut plate is one of the rarest and at the same time 

 most curious ;—the brilliant polished surface of the disk of 

 the lip, which shines like a blue-steel looking-glass, edged 

 with gold, and that again set in a rich maroon velvety frame, 

 presenting a combination of colours quite unlike anything 

 else known to me in the vegetable kingdom. The species is 

 jcne 1st, 1870. 



