are much thickened, a good span long, many-ringed and with 
silvery remains of sheaths and leaves. The flower-stalk comes 
out from the base of the bulb, not generally more than a foot in 
length, porrect (tending obliquely outside), brownish purplish to 
green. Bracis triangular-spathaceous, five-nerved, not nearly 
equalling the stalked ovaries, which are usually more than two 
inches long. Sepals ligulate-acute, fornicate, the lateral ones 
usually spread downwards. Tepals broader, near the odd sepal. 
Ivy ligulate-pandurate or oblong-ligulate, heart-shaped at its 
base, acute, with inflexed narrow borders, cilate either altogether 
or only towards the base. A carinate low nearly half-oblong keel 
in the longitudinal line of the lip, beginning above its apex and 
opening into two short shanks near the mouth of the conical spur. 
Colunm trigonous, dilated near the stigmatic hollow, with a beak 
at its end and two deflexed bristles from the sides of the stigmatic 
hollow. Anther-case with a long beak. 
There are two varieties :— 
ad. MACULATUM, Lindl.—Sepals and tepals green inside, with 
numberless small dark violet-purplish dots. Sepals with a 
brownish purplish mark outside. T'epals, on both sides, like the 
inside of sepals. Lip yellowish green, with brown or dark greenish 
spots. Column green, with purplish spots. This is the plant 
figured. 
b. EBURNEUM, Lindl.—Sepals and tepals greenish. Lip ivory- 
like. This appears to have been seen but once, as stated 
above. 
The fourth flower of our plate represents a not uncommon 
monstrosity, seen sometimes in the genus Ophrys (even last spring 
in O. ferrum-equinum, Desf., in the Hamburgh Botanic Garden, 
flower dried and kept), in Goodyeras, &c. In leu of the lip stands 
a sepal, and at each lower angle of the column standsalip. It 
is, of course, a monstrosity of degradation (declination). The lip 
is changed into a member of an inferior cycle, viz. sepals. The 
staminodes of the outside whorl of anthers are developed and 
degraded to lips. 
Materials :—Several sketches of fresh flowers; description of 
the living plant in the Saundersian garden, 1868; inspection of 
Dr. Lindley’s typical specimens; Lindleyan types in my her- 
barium; seven herbarium specimens. My garden specimens came 
from Consul Schiller and W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. 
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