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OPHRYS Speculum. 
Mirror-lipped Ophrys. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OrcuipEm. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 309. Div. I. 
Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masse & lobulis angulatis 
elastic cohzrentibus; basi affixee. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 188. 
OPHRYS. Supra vol. 8. fol. 205. 
O. Speculum; folia caulina lanceolata. Petala 3 exteriora expansa, acuti- 
uscula, viridia, interiora 2 acuta, purpurea. Labelli laciniaw Jaterales 
erect, media rotundata emarginata non appendiculata, medio glaber- 
rima, cerulescens, limbo villoso fusco. Linkin Schrader’s Journ. fur die 
bot. 1799, 2. 3245; (malé a Willdenovio ad OpurynEM Scolopacem citata; 
cui tamen vere pertinet Orurys Speculum Biv. Bern. sic. pl. cent. 1. 61. 
n. 70. t. 4.) : 
Ophrys ciliata. Biv. Bernardi sic. pl. cent. 1. 60. n. 69. 
Ophrys insectifera; myodes. 3. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 1343. 
Orchis muscam czruleam majorem representans. Breyn. cent. 100. t. 4-4 
Moris. hist. 3.494. sect. 12. t. 13. fig. 11. : 
Orchis Ricinum villosum referens. Cup. panph. 1. t.175. Hort. cath. 158; 
et. suppl. alt. 68.—Bonan. t. 28. 
Nil pulchrius. Radix bulbi 2 subrotundi. Caulis 3-6-uncialis, foliis lan- 
ceolatis vaginatus, pauciflorus. Flores in spica laxad muscas circumvolantes 
mire referunt. Petalum superius fornicatum, columnam tegens, marginibus 
revolutis ; 2 lateralia patentia, ovata, viridia, fascid rosea per medium. Oper- 
cula (petala 2 interiora) petalis (exterioribus) duplo breviora, angustissima, 
acuminata, intense purpurea, recurvata. Nectarii labium (Labellum) ¢ri- 
lobum, ceruleum, splendens, limbo barbato barba purpurea ; lobo medio ex- 
porrecto, obovato, convero, emarginato, mutico; lateralibus angustioribus, 
suspensis alarum instar. Columna obtusa. Biv. Bern. 1. c. 
One of the prettiest of the genus, and now first intro- 
duced by Mr. Swainson; by whom the excellent design, 
from which our engraving has been made, was taken from 
a sample that flowered in his garden at Elm Grove, near 
Liverpool, in February last. The species is native of Portu- 
gal and Sicily, in the latter of which countries Mr. Swainson 
tells us that it is very rare, and that he never found it in 
any other place except in the hilly meadows behind the 
Convent of Santa Maria di Gest, near Palermo. Link 
speaks of it as growing in Portugal, and abundantly in the 
neighbourhood of Setuval. 
Our plant has been erroneously adduced by Willdenow 
