Druce : Orchis praetermissa. 
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the lateral lobe, the sides not reflexed, marked with spots, 
lines, or blotches of a darker colour, or more rarely in a geo- 
metric pattern with defined margins. Viewed from in front 
the flowers look broad and showy. Upper petals converging 
into a hood. Upper sepals usually somewhat paler, divaricate. 
Spur shorter than ovary, curved, cylindric. Flowering 
usually 10-14 days later than incarnata. 
O. praetermissa. Foliis fere semper lineare-lanceolatis, a 
basi lata usque ad apicem cucullatum, plerumque gradatim, 
interdum inaequaliter contractis, et interdum in medio paulo 
latioribus ; viridibus, flavo-viridibus, cano-viridibus vel e 
viridi nigricantibus ; sine maculis, erectis vel ascendentibus. 
Braceteis saepe coloratis, flori aequantibus vel superantibus. 
Floribus conspicuis, roseo-purpureo, rubido vel coccineo- 
purpureo-nigricante colore per varios gradus pictis ; spica 
plus minusve lata, diffusa, cylindrica aut conica. Uabia 
lata est (S-10 mm.) et aeque longa ac lata, plana, plus minusve 
perspicue triloba. Uoba media minor ets et vel paulo longior 
vel aeque longo vel paulo brevior quam lobae laterales, 
marginibus non reflexis, et maculis, lineis aut varis nigrioribus, 
aut, rarius, figura geometrica, cujus margines definiti sont, 
signatur. A fronte flores lati et clari videntur. Petala 
superiora convergunt in cucullum ; sepala superiora plerumque 
paulo pallidoira sunt et divaricata. Calcar curvatum, cylin- 
dricum, brevius est quam ovarium. Diebus 10-14 postquam 
incarnata floret. 
O. latifolia U. Root palmate, not divaricate. Stem, 
robust, very hollow, 6-24 inches. Ueaves, lanceolate, or 
broadly lane., broadest in the middle, narrowing from that 
to the usually obtuse tip, which is usually broad and flat ; 
green, greyish, or bluish green, much spotted, the chocolate 
coloured spots often circles with the centres of the normal 
colour. Bracts, as long as, sometimes shorter and sometimes 
longer, than the flowers. FI. in rather dense cylindric or 
conical spikes of usually dark purple, rose purple, or purplish 
lilac flowers, broader than long, more or less three lobed, 
usually marked with symmetric lines, the median lobe usually 
equalling in length the lateral. Upper sepals at first spreading 
afterwards more or less erect. Spur cylindric or sub-conical, 
feebly curved, a little shorter than ovary. 
0 . incarnata U. Stem hollow, 6-18 inches. Ueaves 
normally linear-lane., narrowed from a broad base to the 
hooded apex, rarely very slightly broader in the middle ; 
yellowish-green ; unspotted ; more or less appressed to the 
stem, erect or ascending. Bracts as long, longer, or some- 
times shorter than fls., often coloured. Flowers flesh-coloured, 
pale dull lilac, rarely white or yellowish, usually in a dense, 
elliptical or cylindric, obtuse spike. Uip spotted and streaked 
1^14 June 1. 
