of all the African side of the basin of the Mediterranean ; 
and is chiefly distinguished by its greater stature, more 
numerous and larger flowers, and spreading bractee. It 
may be considered the most genuine form of the species. 
~ The variety now represented is found abundantly in 
shady, hilly places in Sicily, Corsica, Calabria, and in 
other places upon the European shores of the Mediter- 
ranean. It is a beautiful little plant, representing O. ten- 
thredinifera in its more northern stations, and sufficiently 
hardy to bear cultivation well in a common frame. It was 
received by the Horticultural Society in 1826, from Signor 
Mauri, of Rome, under the name of QO. grandiflora, by 
which Professor Tenore has published it in the Flora Na- 
politana. Our drawing was made at the Chiswick Garden, 
in May 1827. 
Ophrys crabronifera of Sebastiani and Mauri, which is 
referred by Professor Sprengel to the present species, is 
closely allied, but is apparently distinguishable by its 
greater stature, by its brown labellum, by the want of the. 
tuft of hairs under the little appendage of the apex of 
the labellum, and by a shaggy base to the same portion of 
the flower. 
It has already been remarked, that this plant has been 
called O. grandiflora by Professor Tenore. This arose 
from. an error having been committed by that skilful 
Botanist in referring to the Ophrys tenthredinifera of 
Willdenow, a Neapolitan plant which is undoubtedly dis- 
tinct from the Ophrys grandiflora, but which is not the 
species of Desfontaines, nor consequently of Willdenow. 
This mistake does not appear to have been previously 
noticed; we shall use the opportunity now afforded us 
of rectifying it, and of pointing out the characters by which 
the Neapolitan plant may be distinguished in future. 
O. Tenoreana; labello integerrimo cuneato villoso appendiculato sub apice 
barbato, disco fusco linea flexuosa lutea, sepalis coloratis: interioribus 
parvis ovatis acutis tomentosis, exterioribus subrotundis, bracteis lanceo- 
latis herbaceis floribus longioribus, caule squamoso. : : 
O. tenthredinifera. Tenore Fl. Napol. p. 308. tab.,93. nec aliorum. 
Hab. in Calabrice dumetis. Floret Aprili et Maio. Tenore. ey 
