PLATE CCCXV. 
ORCHIS BICORNIS. 
Two-horned Orchis. 
: CLASS XX. ORDER I. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. _ Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 
« ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Necrarivm corniforme pone florem, | Howex-cup like a horn behind the flower. 
. | See OrncHIS CILIARIS, Mt. XLII Vol. 1. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Orchis bulbis indivifis ; corollis — Brice H Orchis with undivided bulbs; helmet of the blof- 
‘rata; labio quinque-partito. fom two -fpurred, lip five-parted. 
: oa REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
Pe : : 1. A Flower, — 
eo _ . 2. ‘The fame, magnified, with the front ones cut away to expofe the parts of 
: fruétification, one of the chives being liberated from its cell. 
eo, : ae 
al ome ey ‘ 
etc ad . ’ : sa aa 
Tas fog fittle stig firft introduced to us, from the Cape of £ Good Hope, b. 
been loft to our gardens fince near that time till laft year, when we 
i agai in in the colleGtion of T. Rieck: Efq. Stepney ; but we much fear, 
| cal pesginrepsae ftand but as a name in our catalogues. It is a Very 
cate plant; 3 ae , like nearly the whole of this natural order, difficult to iter hae 
ao tate; wherefore we cannot pretend to recommend an icular met “a 
| _— flowered at Stepney was planted in fandy peat, and cous x gate jt Sows 
: sriseteas es its sateaege! sors! iti and  eeeeety fragrant. fe 
