the present individual, which inhabits the still more southern 
countries of Europe. 
TourNEFoRT seems to have paid great attention to this 
tribe of plants during hiswoyage to:the Levant, and has caused 
several of them to be drawn upon vellum, by that admirable 
artist AUBRIET, who accompanied him as a botanical draughts- 
man. hese figures form a part of the splendid Vellum Col- 
lection, as it is called, of Natural History, begun under the 
auspices of GasTON, Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XII. 
and continued to the present time at the expence of the 
French Government. Five new species, taken from those 
drawings, are figured and described by DEsFONTAINES in the 
10th volume of the Annales du Muséum. d@ Histoire Natu- 
relle. _'Two of them, the O. villosa of DEsroNTAINES (O. ten- 
thredinifera of WitLp.) and the O. Speculum, and, as it 
would.appear, the only exotic true. Ophrides ever introduced in 
aliving'state into this country; were brought by Mr.SwarNnson 
from Palermo ; and, of these, excellent figures have been given 
by Mr Gawter in the numbers of the Botanical Register- 
Tubers of O. lutea were received from Gibraltar, by the Bota- 
nical Garden here,.through the kindness of. Captain Dunn of 
Greenock; and,.‘though: inclosed, in a dry state, in a bag of 
‘Ranunculus roots, they flowered in the green-house in the suc- 
eceding spring. 
In a growing state this plant is beautiful, and most re 
sembles. O. iricolor of the. Annales du. Muséum, v. 10. t..19: 
differing, however, from it, in the fewer number of flowers up- 
on its spike, the dissimilar form of the lip, and the yellow, not 
purple, colour of the blossoms. = 
WILLDENOW states it to be a general inhabitant of Spain 
and Portugal; and Bivona Bernarpti of the hills.and mea- 
dows about Palermo and Catania. 
es 
Fig. 1. The small inner segment of the perianth. Fig. 2. Lip and column 
of fructification. Fig. 3. Upper. part of the stigma, with the anther. 
Fig. 4. One of the pollen-masses.—All more or less magnified. 
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