(1930) 
Opnnys 1 TENTHREDINIFERA. SAW-FLY 
OPHRYS. 
seas ie aieshak deka eee 
Class and Order. 
GyNAanpRIA Monanpria. 
Generic Character. 
Corolla datponae, Labellum  ecalcaratum. Glandulz 
pollinis eucullis distinctis incluse. Brown. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
-Ornrys tenthredinifera ; caule folioso, labello villoso obovato 
bilobo appendiculato, petalis patentibus: tribus exteriori- 
bus oblongis obtusis: binis interioribus brevissimis. 
Wilid. Sp. Pl. 4. p.67. Sm. Prodr. Fl. Grec. Sibth. 0. 2. 
p. 217. nondum editus. Bot. Reg. 205. 
Orurys insectifera. A. rosea; labello villoso oblongo-obovato, — 
apice bilobo appendiculato. Desjont. Atl. 2. p. 320. 
Opurys villosa. Meson. in Annales du Muséum 10. 229. 
t. 14. 
: Onsen orientalis” fucum referens, flore parvo, villosissimo, | 
be Cor. 30. Vélins du Mus. 
scuto azureo. 
- % 
It is very rematkahla how many forms of different insects 
are more or Jess accurately represented by thé flowers of this 
genus. Linnazus, who had no opportunity of examining 
but a few of them, in a living state, was induced to consider — 
most of them as mere varieties of the same species. Later 
Botanists have, apparently with good reason, described them 
_ as distinct, but have found it not a little difficult to find good 
discriminative characters. — 
‘That our present plant is distinct from Orurys aranifera 
of the British er) is sufficiently evident ; it has indeed a 
