appellation. Onrcuis is scarcely met with beyond the limits 
of Europe; no where within the tropics or the southern 
hemisphere. Hapenarra is represented by various species 
in the four quarters of the world, as well as in our own 
country. 
From one to two feet high. Roof fascicled. Séem up- 
right, smooth, proceeding from two-edged to four-edged. 
‘Leaves cauline, several (3-5) alternate, sessile, oblong, 
sharp-pointed, quite entire nerved, keeled, at the base 
sheathing two inches long. Spike ovately oblong, many- 
flowered. Flowers blue-purple. Bractes lanceolate, nerved, 
put little longer than the germens. Petals 5, flat, of the 
same length, 3 lines long, the uppermost or dorsal one 
ovate obtuse upright, outer lateral ones ovate sharp-pointed 
outspread, inner lateral ones oblong obtuse near to the 
dorsal petal upright, widened below the middle, where they 
are denticulate, tapered at the base. Labellum but little 
longer than the other petals, tripartite, segments broad 
cuneiform or wedge-shaped equal flat divided to the middle 
into subulate strips, lateral ones divaricate, middle one 
spreading. Germen half an inch long. 
