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PELEXIA spiranthoides. 
Spiranthes-like Pelexia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orciiide®. Sect. Neottiese Lindl. 
PELEXIA.—Poiteau in Richard. Orch. annot. p. 37. Sepala in cy- 
lindro conniventia: lateralibus exterioribus dependentibus basi labello con- 
natis. Lahellum integrum, porrectum, marginibus columnam cum eo paral- 
lelam amplectentibus, basi in calcare cum ovario connato productum. 
Herba habitu omninb Spiranthis elatae. 
P. spiranthoides. 
Satyrium adnatum. Swartz prodr. 118. 
Neottia adnata. Swartz fl. ind. occ. 3. p. 1409. Willd. sp. pi. 4. 75. 
Herba habitu omninb Spiranthis elatce. Folia radicalia, ovato-lanceo- 
lata, subundulata, 3-5 nervia, glaberrima, longi petiolata , more Ponthievce 
petiolatae. Scapus centralis, pedalis et ultrd, teres , basi squamis vaginatus, 
apicem versils pilosus. Bractese ovato-lanceolata, acuminata:, apice glabra. 
Flores sessiles, bractearum circiter longitudine. Ovarium leviter pubcscens. 
Sepala exteriora pallide viridia .* lateralibus linearibus intits albis, depen¬ 
dentibus, et cum basi labelli connatis; interiora alba superiori arete appressa. 
Labellum basi calcaratum: calcare cum ovario connato; marginibus cum 
columnd parallelis; lamina ovatd acutd integrd. Columna Spiranthis. 
This exceedingly rare plant was brought from the 
island of St. Vincent’s, by Mr. James M‘Rae, in 1823, and 
by him presented to the Horticultural Society, in whose 
garden, at Chiswick, our drawing was made in March last. 
It is an herbaceous plant, with the habit of Spiranthes 
data , and requires the same mode of treatment. It is pro¬ 
pagated slowly by dividing the roots. 
The leaves grow from the root, and are ovate-lanceolate, 
somewhat wavy, 3 or 5-nerved, very smooth, on long stalks, 
are very like those of Ponthieva petiolata. Scape a foot 
and more in height, round, sheathed with scales at the 
base, hairy towards the upper part. Bractea ovate-lan- 
