ORCHIDACE®. 87 
A herb with ovoid or subglobular root-fibres, only differing from 
Orchis in the want of a spur to the labellum. 
The derivation of the name of this genus is thus given—from 4, not, and képac, a 
horn; because the flowers have no spur. 
SPECIES I-ACERAS ANTHROPOPHORA. 2. Br. 
Prare MCCCCXLVII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCLVIT. 
Pillot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3240, 
Ophrys anthropophora, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 29. 
The only known species. 
In chalk pits and on rough banks and the undisturbed borders of 
fields on chalky soil. Rather scarce. It occurs in the chalk districts 
of the south-eastern counties, but is not known to extend west of 
Sussex, Berks, Bucks, Northampton, and Lincoln. Reported to have 
been discovered by Mrs. Broaderick, in Hamphole Wood, near Don- 
caster. 
England. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Root 2 subglobular or ovoid knobs, in flowering plants varying 
from the size of a sloe to that of a small walnut. Stem 6 inches to 2 
feet high, the spike at length occupying nearly half the stem, the 
lower half having a few sheathing bractlike leaves. Leaves sheathing, 
oblong, the outer ones broader and blunter than the i inner, which are 
acute. Spike many-flowered, dense while in bud, at length rather 
lax and cylindrical, blunt. Bracts shorter than the ovary in flower. 
Flowers yellowish-green, frequently more or less tinged with maroon or 
dull brownish-red, especially on the labellum. Sepals and lateral petals 
similar, but the petals narrower, about } inch long, concave, connivent 
into a helmet; labellum about 2 inch’ long, hanging down, 3-lobed, 
the lateral lobes linear, the middle lobe str: apshaped, longer than the 
lateral lobes, cleft one-third of the way up into 2 linear segments, 
the lateral lobes and segments of the labellum slender : these have 
been supposed to resemble the legs and arms of a man, whence the 
plant derives its specific name. Ovary twisted, green. Seeds, as in 
most of the tribe, extremely minute, with a loose reticulated covering. 
Man Orchis. 
French, Ophrys homme pendu. German, Menschendhnliches Ohnhorn. 
The Orchis family is without question the most remarkable in the vegetable world. 
The anomalous structure of the flowers, their amazing variety, and the manner of life 
proper to the greater portion of the species are circumstances which give interest to 
a race of plants so peculiar. The few species which grow in Britain take root, like 
other plants, in the earth, but the tropical forms perch themselves upon the boughs 
