ORCHIS* papiliondcea. 
Purple Butterfly Orchis. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuipem. § Ophrydeee Lindley. 
* Labello radicibusque indivisis. 
O. papilionacea ; labello obovato subemarginato crenulato venoso, sepalis 
obtusiusculis erectis nervosis, germine cornu inflexum acutum superante, 
bracteis coloratis breviore. Sprengel syst. 3. 684. 
QO. papilionacea. Linn. sp. pl. 1831. Scop. carn. n. 1103. Weld. sp. 
pl. 4. 24. aliorumque. 
O.tubra. Jacquin ic. rar. 1. t. 183. Collect. 1. p. 60. 
Radices carnosi, indivist. Folia brevia, oblongo-ensiformia, patentia, 
obtusa. Caulis erectus, pedalis v. minor, vaginis submembranacets venosis, 
apice virescentibus. Spica 5-7-flora. Bracte membranacee, dilatate, 
Tosee, venose, ovario longzores. Sepala rubro-purpurea, venosa, ascendentia, 
inferioribus retrorsim subfalcatis. Labellum pallide purpureum, oblong um, 
obtusum, indivisum, subundulatum, crenulatum. Calcar crassum, conicum, 
rectum, subacutum, ovario brevius. 
A half-hardy species, introduced into this country by 
M. Mauri, by whom it was sent from Rome to the Horti- 
cultural Society, in 1826: our drawing was made in the 
-Chiswick Garden, in May 1827. It thrives very well in 
light soil, if planted in a pot, and kept in a frame during 
the winter; but it would not bear our climate with less 
attention. 
A native of most parts of the South of Europe, in 
Corsica, Liguria, near Monte Nuovo, Rome, and Naples, 
and also in Barbary. 
By most authors, the O. rubra of Jacquin is considered 
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* Orchis is a primitive Greek word, which, being ‘interpreted, signifies a 
small oval fleshy body; and was applied to the plants that bear its name, in 
consequence of the figure of the roots according with that interpretation. 
