curved outwards, obtuse, of a light purple. Pollen-masses
ash-coloured, pedicelled, and enclosed within a membranaceous
hood.
Several hulhs of this species were received by Mr.
Colvill from the late Mr. Schleicher, rvho collected
them in Switzeidand, and sent them under the name of
O. sambucina ß rubra, but it is certainly very different
from that species, and we can find no description or
figure that agrees with it in any work that we have had
an opportunity of examining; the bulbs succeeded well
in small pots in an equal portion of light loam, peat,
and sand, and flowered the latter end of April and beginning
of May last, when our drawing was made. It
appears to be one of the sorts that is not difficult of cultivation,
and we have no doubt but it would thrive well
in the meadows of Kent and Surry, in the same situations
as O. mono or O. latifolia, where it would probably
soon become naturalized. It might also be cultivated
with advantage in a frame, in the way that we
have already recommended for some of the other species,
the lights only to be kept on in very wet or severe
frosty weather, where we have no doubt but many species
would ripen their seeds, and produce young plants
in abundance, if the ground was not disturbed too often,
which would infallibly destroy them.
1. Germen. 2. T h e 5 leaflets o f the Perian th ium . 3. Labellum, -with the long
spur a t its base. 4 . A n th e r, its two pedicelled pollen masses d etach ed from the
lobes, each seated on a little gland a t th e base.