Plate 170. 



ECHIS FOLIOSA 



Leafy Orchis. 



Oen. Char, i^/ores galeati. Sepala subaequalia; supremum cum petalis m fornicis specicm 

 connivens; lateralia nunc convergentia^ nunc reflexa. Pe/a?a erecta^ sepalo suba^qnnlia.- LnheJlnm 



V. indivisum, cum basi columnae connatiim. Anthera erectaj loculin 



Tum 



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contiguis parallels. Glandulce polleniorum 2^ distinctaej cucullo communi {i.e. plicatura cuciillnfr 

 stigmatis s, rostelli) inclus^, — Herbas terrestreSy radicibus tuhercidiferiSj foliiB pier isqvr Tru^irahliia 

 tactu molUhiis suhsiicculentis scepe maculatis. Lindl. ■ 



ns/( 



sepalis ovatis acutis^ 



trilob 



emarginatis intermedia acuta multo majoribus, calcare pendulo cornuto labello duplo brcvnorc, 

 bracteis herbaceis acuminatis flore seepe longioribus, tuberculis palmatis. Lindl. 



Orchis foliosa. Soland. mss. in Herb 

 i- 1701; 8erL Orchid. t.U. 



Mader. p. 13. Lindlcy, Bot. Jti'j. 



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This fine Orchis is a good deal allied, it must be confessed, to our Orchis latifolia, 

 fciit nevertheless truly distinct ; differing, as Dr. Lindley assures us, in being larger m 

 all its parts, having a distinctly three-lobed, flat lip, instead of a lozenge-shapcd convex 

 one, a shorter and more slender spur, and a taller stem. It is a species peculiar to i\w 

 island of Madeira, and is found, according to the Kev. Mr. Lowe, in roc-ky banks of 

 Hibeiro Frio, amongst grass and bushes of Spartium candicans, at an elevation upon the 

 hills of 3000 feet. Mr. Lowe gathered one native specimen which measured two feet 

 seven inches in height. It should be grown in a cool greenhouse, in a large pot filleci 

 >vith fibrous peat. It flowers freely in May, and when in a large moss is c:.c€e(hngly 

 ornamental. 



I>ESCR. Tubers palmated. Stem and foliage resembling greatly those of OrcUs 

 ^^tifolia, spotless. Bracteas leafy 'among the flowers, but generally shorter than y. 

 ^Fih ovate or oblong-ovate, three inches broad, bearing numerous P"7''^"'''^^ 

 Sepah erecto.patent, ovate, obtuse, nearly plane, palish-purple. Peinls '^'"^^^^^ ^" ', ; 

 but narrower and smaller, nearly erect, dark-purple. Uj/ pendent, very broad, 



