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P L A T E III.
NEOTTIA SPECIOSA.
Flejh-coloured Neottia.
C L A S S XX. ORDER IL
G Y N J 4 N D R I A D I A N D R I A . Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.
G E N E R I C
CALYX. Spathae vagae. Spadix fimplex-
COROLLA. Pétala quinqué, longitudine sequila,
auguñe-lanceolata, erefta.
Neáiíirium monophyllum, indivifum, acuminatum,
intra pétala interiora poíitura, bafin
ñyli femiampleftens, ercAum, fuperne patulum.
STAMINA. Filamenta duo, ex limbo ftyli dorfali
orta, lanceolata. Antberae duse, lineares,
longóe, locatée in loculum filamenti.
PisTiLLUM. Germen inferum, curvatura, fulcatimi,
inferne attenuatum. Stylus craíTus,
adnatus labio luperiori neftarii. Stigma
obíbletum.
PERICARPIUM. Capfula unilocularis, carnofa,
longiflima, trivalvis.
SEMINA numeróla, minutiffima.
C H A K A C T E K .
EMPALEMENT. Sheath fcattered. Fruit-ftalk
fimple.
BLOSSOM. Petals five, of equal length, of a
narrow fpear-ihape, and upright.
Honey-cup one leaf, undivided, fharp pointed,
placed between the two inner petals, half
embracing the bafe of the iliaft, upright,
fpreading at the top.
C H I V E S . TWO threads, riiing out of the back
of the lhaft, fpear-fliaped. Tips two, linear,
long, placed in the cells of the threads.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud beneath, curved, furrowed,
tapering at the bafe. Shaft thick, growing
to the upper lip of the honey-cup. Summit
indiftiniSt.
SEED-VESSEL, Capfule with one cell, flefliy,
very long, three valves.
SEEDS numerous, very fmall.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Neottia, foliis radicalibus, undulatis, latolanceolatis,
bafi attenuatis; floribus confertis,
fpicatis, incarnatis, fpeciociffimis.
Neottia, \i'ith leaves growing from the root,
waved, of a broad fpear-ihape, tapered at
the bafe; flowers preifed together in a
fpike, flefh-coloured, and moil beautiful.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. AEloflbm, Seed-bud, and Sheath, (natural fize).
2. The Seed-bud, and three Petals of the Bloifom; the two inner cut out, to fliew the pofition
of the Honey-cup, (natural fize).
3. Seed-velfel, and Honey-cup magnified; fhewing the fituation, and fliape of the Chives,
within the Honey-cup.
4. The fame magnified; fhewing the fituation of the Pointal, at the back of the Honey-cup.
PROFESSOR Jacquin of Vienna, having figured the Neottia in the third volume of his Colleflanea,
with juftice has determined it a new genus, and given it the name it here bears; the whole habit of
the plant being entirely dillimilar to any old genera. It certainly muft be placed fomewhere near
Limodorum, or Epidendron, from either of which, however, it ftands perfedly diftina. This is the
only fpecies yet in England, and was introduced from the ¡(land of Jamaica, about the year l/QS, by
the Hon. Mrs. Barrington. The drawing from which the prefent figure is taken, was made (by
her kind permiflion) from a plant in the extenfive colleaion of the Hon. Lady Archer, Ham-common.
Like all plants from that illand, it requires the heat of a pine-ftove, and rich earth, to make it
flcuriftj; is increafed by the root, and flowers in the early part of tlie year.