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NeEoTTIA SPECIOSA. RED-FLOWERED 
NEOTTIA. 
JeHeedebineek ieee 
Cla/s and Order. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIAs 
Generic Charafer. 
Cor. 5-petala ringens, petalis exterioribus lateralibus antice 
circa bafin labelli ventricofam connexis. Axthera ftylo acumi- 
nato parallela, poftice inferta. 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
NEOTTIA /peciofu ; labello lanceolato indivifo, {capo brac- 
teato, bra&teis flore longioribus, foliis oblongis 
margine apicem verfus undulatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 
é 4. pu q2. Perfoon Syn. 2. fp. 5100 
NEOTTIA /pecio/a; foliis crenato-undulatis, fpathis fuperi- 
. oribus rubris. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t.600. Colled?. 3. 
.174- 
NEOTTIA Tecofi Bot. Repof. 3. Swartz Orchid. vide 
 -Tradts on Bot, p. 153. te 4. fo Le eg 
SERAPIAS /peciofa. Gmel. Syjft. Nat. 2. pe 59 
HELLEBORINE foliis liliaceis, radice afphodeli, major. 
Plum. Cat. p.9. Ic. 190. A? 5 
The Nrortra /peciofa is a native of the Wett-India iflands, — 
‘and, of courfe, requires to be kept conftantly in the bark 
ftove. Wittpenow doubted whether the figure publifhed by _ 
Mr. Anprews in the Botanift’s Repofitory might not reprefent 
a different {pecies from Jacguin’s plant. Our drawing, how- 
ever, being certainly done from the fame fpecies as the former, 
leaves no room to doubt of the identity of all three. The co- 
Jour of the leaves, as given in the Botanift’s Repofitory, 1s 
much too dark a green, and the veining is falfely depicted ; 
but WitipeNnow has laid too much ftrefs upon the {mall un- 
dulation at the margin of the leaf, reprefented by Jacquin as 
giving an appearance of its being cr ed; for not unfre- 
quently this particular crifpature is altogether wanting, as in 
one of the leaves in our figure. ecg 
Our drawing was made feveral years ago from a plant that 
flowered in December, at Mr. Wooprorp’s, at Vauxhall, who 
imported it from the ifland of Barbadoes. 1s eafily propagated 
by its roots, 
