Tab. 5868. A & b. 



A SERAPIAS CORDIGERA. 



Heart-lipped Serapias. 



B SERAPIAS lingua. 



Tongue-lipped Serapias. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide.e. — Gynandrta Monandria. 



Gen. Char. — Sepala cum petalis in galeam cucullatam connata. Petala e 

 basi dilatata longe cuspidata. Labellum basi columns insertum, sessile, basi 

 bilamellatum, disco pilosum, trilobum, lobis lateralibus parvis adscendenti- 

 bus, intermedio elongato deflexo linguseformi. Columna elongata, aptera, 

 clinandrio postice in acumen elongatum producto, antice supra stigma promi- 

 nente indiviso in cucullum plicato. Anthem verticalis, loculis basi adscen- 

 dentibus, clinandrio incumbentibus. Pollinia esulca, caudiculis distinctis, 

 glandula communi intra bursiculam recondita. — Herbtx Mediterranean, radice 

 bituberata, caule folioso. Flores laxe spicati, bracteis magnis cucullatis 

 coloratis. Endl. 



A Serapias cordigera ; tuberculis sessilibus, altero rarissime pedicellato, 

 spica prima anthesi congesta, bracteis flore ssepe longioribus, labelli 

 laciniis lateralibus obtusis erectis conniventibus, intermedio longiore 

 aquilato ovato basi ssepe cordato acuminato, disco piloso, callo basilari 

 profunde 2-lobo. 



Serapias cordigera, Linn. Sp. PI. n. 1345. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid. 377. 

 Sibthorp, Flora Grceca, t. 932. Andrews, Bot. Rep. t. 475. Reich. 

 Fl. Germ., t. 440. 



Serapias ovalis, Rich, in Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat, vol. iv. p. 54. 



B Serapias Lingua; tuberculo altero sessili altero ssepissime pedicellato, 

 spica prima anthesi laxa, bracteis floribus brevioribus, labelli laciniis 

 lateralibus ovatis obtusis, intermedio longiore angustiore oblongo- 

 lanceolato acuminato glabrato, callo basilari medio obscure sulcato v. 

 piano. 



Serapias Lingua, Linn. Sp. PL n. 1344. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid. 

 377. Hook. Exot. Flor. t. 11. Sibthorp, Fl. Graca, t. 931. Reich. 

 Fl. Germ. t. 439. 



Serapias oxyglottis, Bert. Amaen. Ital., p. 202. 



The two interesting, but very variable orchids here figured, 

 are natives of pine woods, heaths, shrubberies, and hilly 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1870 



