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ORCHIS militaris.
Military Orchis.
Naturat Order. O r c h i d e æ . B rownprodr.l. p.309.
Sect. I . M o n a n d r æ . ^ » íA e r a adnata subterminalis persistens.
Pollinis massa e lobulis angulatis elastice cobærentibus :
basi affixæ. Brown in Hort. Keio. ed.2. u.5. p . 188.
O R C H IS . Supra, fo l.6 5 .______________
O. militaris, labello tripartito fasciculato-piloso : laciniis late-
ralibus linearibus; intermedia biloba obtusa cum mucrone in-
terjecto, perianthii foliolis acutis conniventibus, cornu recto
g e r m i n e duplo breviore, bracteis obsoletis.
Orchis militaris. Jacq.ic. rar. t. 598. Willden. sp. pi. i . p . 22.
(excl.sunon. Hall. Gouan. Rivin. áfc.j Hort. Kew. ed.2. v . i .
(excl. synon. Eng. hot. 1873.; Pers. syn. 2. p. 501. (excl.
synon. Hall. helv. t. 28.)
Root consisting of two fleshy bulbs, from the upper
part of Avhich are produced some long fleshy fibrous
roots. Leaves lanceolate, acute, concave on the upper
side and bluntly keeled on the lower, striated with longitudinal
lines, punctate, smooth and glossy. Scape
leafy, angular and furrowed, smooth and glossy. Spike
pyramidal. Bractes very short, membranaceous, resem-
bliug small scales, which are ovate, the lower ones obtuse,
upper ones acute, from 4 to 6 times shorter than
the germen. Germen angular, twisted. Leaflets o f the
Perianthium connivent and adhering, arched over, pale
ash-colour on the outside: three outer ones oblongly
lanceolate, taper-pointed, narrower than in O. Rivini ;
the middle one shortest and broadest, concave inside,
all marked with elegant dark purple stripes : inner ones
linear, dark purple. Lahellum 3-parted, narrower than
in O. ’Rivini, of a bright rosy purple, elegantly spotted
on the upper side with tufts of dark purple hairs: side
segments linear : middle one lengthened out, 2-lobed,
with a purple muci'o betwixt the lobes, which are bluntly
rounded. Spur straight, short and blunt, about half
or scarcely half the length of the germen. Stamen attached
to the point of the stigma, 2-lobed, lobes approximating
each other. Pollen-masses pedicled, and
enclosed within a hood ; pollen brownish ash-colonr.
This magnificent plant was received from Mr. Schleicher,
of Bex, at the same time as the preceding species,
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