PLATE XUV. 
(A, B.) SERAPIAS tinaua, L.; (C.) S. occunrata, Gay. 
Natural Order OrcHIpAcEez. 
Gen. Cuar.—See description of Plate XVI. Part I. 
(A, B.) Spec. Cuar.—Petals subulate above, enlarged below into a 
broadly ovate base. Lip pinkish flesh colour, bright pink, or yellowish- 
brown, pubescent or subglabrous, terminal lobe ovate-acute (as in A.), or 
oblongo-ovate, or oblongo-lanceolate (as in B.); gudding-plates (calli) 
united, forming an oblongo-obovate fleshy mass, channelled in its 
posterior third only, where it becomes confluent with the walls of the 
stigmatic cavity. Pollen-masses yellow, or yellowish-green. Leaves and 
stem free from. spots. T'ubers usually 3, one or two of which are usually 
long-stalked and one sessile. 
Serapias lingua, L. Sp. Plant. p. 1844; Gren. et Godr. FI. de Fr. iii. 
280; Parl. Fl. Ital. iii. 422; Ardoino, Fl. Alp. Mar. p. 858; S. oxyglottis, 
Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 355. 
(C.) Sprc. Cuar.—F lowers very small and exceedingly fertile, nearly 
upright. Lip pinkish-brown, very small, equalling or only slightly ex- 
ceeding the sepals; terminal lobe ovato-lanceolate, reflexed, pubescent ; 
guiding-plates forming two distinct, parallel ridges. Pollen-masses nearly 
white, very loose in texture, apparently allowing the grains to fall. 
Leaves and stem spotted in the lower part of the plant, stem straight. 
Tubers 2, one sessile, one shortly stalked. 
Serapias occultata, Gay, Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 2, vol. vi. p. 119; Gren, et 
Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. 280; S. parviflora, Parl. in Giorn. Se. per la Sicilia 
(anno 1837) lix. 66, et in Linnea, xii. 347, tab. iv.; Woods, Tour. FI. 
p- 855; S. laxiflora, Chaub. var. parviflora, Rehb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. 13, 
tab. 442; S. strictiflora, Welw. MSS. et in Herbar. Kew. 
Hasirats —(A, B.) gathered by me on Montegrosso, Mentone, April 
20, 1870; (C.) gathered by my father at Ceinturon on the shore near 
Hyeres on the 14th of May, 1867. 
Remarks.—The small flowered forms of Serapias lingua, L., may at first 
sight be readily mistaken for S. occultata, Gay, but I have never seen 
specimens in which this likeness was more than superficial, The erect 
habit of the stem and flowers, the specks of brownish colour at the bases 
of the lower leaves and the stems, the loose texture of the pollen-masses, 
and perhaps the short-stalked tuber, distinguish S. occultata, The figure 
of this latter plant, from specimens gathered at Mondello, given by Pro- 
fessor Parlatore in the Linnea (vid. sup.) corresponds well with the Hyéres 
plant. In Professor Reichenbach’s figure, however, the tubers are repre- 
