ORCHIDACE®. 385 
rangement of the coloured spots on the true labellum, and that on the 
adventitious lips, replacing the two lower of the outer stamens, were 
Fie. 193.—Diagram showing the arrangement of parts in a mal- 
formed flower of Ophirys aranifera (see p. 384). 
not of a similar character. The supernumerary lips had the z-shaped 
marking which is so common in this species, while the true lip was, 
as to its spots, much more like O. apifera. Alternating with this last 
whorl were three columns, all apparently perfectly formed and differing 
only from the ordinary one in their smaller size and corresponding to 

Fic. 194.—Malformed flower of Ophrys aranifera with two super- 
numerary lips and three additional stamens. 
al,a2,a3. The ovary in this flower was two-celled, with four parietal 
placentas, thus giving an appearance as though there had been a fusion 
of two or more flowers associated with suppression and other changes. 
The position of the supernumerary organs and the absence of any 
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