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ORCHIS longicornu. 
Long-spurred Orchis, 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord.. Orcuinem. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309, 
Div. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masse @ 
lobulis angulatis elasticé cohzrentibus; basi affixe. Brown in Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2. 5. 188. 
ORCHIS. Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtis calcaratum. Glandule 
(1-2) pedicellorum pollinis inclusz cucullo unico. Br. loc. cit. 
O. longicornu, labello trilobo crenulato, lobis obtusis, medio breviore, 
petalis obtusis conniventibus, cornu ascendente compresso spathulato 
germen subeequante. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 19. : 
Orchis longicornu. _ Potret voy. en barb. 2. 24°7. Lamarck encyc. 4. 591. 
Desfont. atl. 2. 317. t. 246. 
Rad. didymo-tuberosa. Fol. immaculata, radicalia, plurifaria, basi im- 
bricato-compacta, indé patentia, 5-6, 3-uncialia, 4 partes unci@ lata, lanceo- 
lata, micaceo-pruinosa, medio canaliculata, distantits lineata; caulina 
4-5, vaginantia. Caulis scapiformis bis altior foliis, superné purpurascens. 
Flores laxi, patentes, 10 v. plures, violaceo-purpurei, cum germine simul sub- 
unciales, odore grato amaricante fragrantes, resupinato-explicantes. Bractese 
vaginantes, colorate, lanceolate, breviores germine. Petala ordine duplici ; 
5 (ex resupinatione) superiora galeato-countventia, rosea, intits pallentia, ob- 
tusa, bis terve breviora calcare ; trium exteriorum lateralia obliguata, inaqui= 
tateri-elliptica, nervis 5 viridantibus, carina eccentricd; medium oblongum 
antrorsiim fornicatum trinerve ; interiora eatimis-accumbentia, angustiora, 
invicem approximata. Labellum dimidio longius istis, oblatum, porrectum, 
disco pte punctis atropurpureis, 3-lobum lobis lateralibus obscuro-colo- 
ratis externo margine denticulatis, intermedio admodiim minore scepitts retuso: 
calcar 2 uncie longum, subequale germini, assurgens, roseo-punicans, trans- 
verse compressum, cuneato-elongatum, truncatum, erugatum, quandoque retu- 
sum. Germen fusco-purpureum, % partes uncie longum, pro flore resupinando 
tortum, supra curvatum. Masse pollinis stipitato-clavate, indivise, thecis 
2 Mit inalibus cuculli erecti inclusee, stipites septo a perpendiculart 
intergerino albo duplicato distincti: pollen virens, graveolens. 
A species very recently introduced by Mr. William 
Swainson from the Botanic Garden at Palermo. Native of 
the coast of Barbary, and probably of Sicily. Found by 
Messrs. Poiret and Desfontaines in swamps near the sea. 
The latter has published an engraving of it in his celebrated 
Flora Atlantica, but from a dried specimen. 
It comes very close to our own common Meadow Orchis 
(Morio), but the leayes are more numerous,’ the flowers 
