156 ALASSIO AND ITS FLORA 
Umbel of several flowers. 
Lobes of the perigon elliptical, without 
a notch, pale-yellow coloured, almost 
white, X shorter than the tube the ex- 
ternal three mucronate. 
Crown about 4" of the lobes of the pe- 
rigon, cup-shaped, of a deep yellow re- 
sembling the colour of the yolk of an egg. 
Style shorter than the superior sta- 
mens and the tube, detached in all its 
length, and reaching the point of the 
inferior anthers. Only the superior an- 
thers are entirely included in the cup 
of the crown.l 
Tube thinner near the ovary than the 
perigon, longer than that of the prece- 
ding. 
Scape two-angled, with longitudinal 
ridges, of an intense green, thinner than 
that of the preceding, hollow. 
Spathe scarious, equal to that of the 
preceding. 
Ophrys lutea, Cav. — Nat. Ord. Orchi- 
daceae. Reg, Serre, below Villa Murchio. 
March, April. 
