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Neottia elata. Tall Neottia. 



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Class and Order. 



Gynandria Monandria. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. ringens : petalis exterioribus anticis labello imberbi 

 suppositis, interioribus conniventibus. Columna aptera. 

 Pollen farinaceum. Brown in Hort. Kew. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Neottia elata ; labello obovato emarginato, scapo vaginato, 



bracteis flore brevioribus, foliis ovatis petiolatis margine 



planis. Willd. Sp. PI. 4. p. 72. Hort Kew. ed. alt. 5. 



p. 199. Redoute Liliac. 164. 

 Neottia elata. Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800. p. 226. 

 Neottia minor ; foliis planis, spathis virentibus. Jacq. Col- 



led. 3. p. 172. Ic. rar. 601. Bot. Repos. 376. 

 Satyrium datum ; bulbis fasciculatis crassis tomentosis, foliis 



radicalibus ovatis petiolatis, caule subnudo, nectario 



subtrilobo. Swartz Prodr. 119. 

 Satyrium quintum erectum minus ; foliis tenuissimis ovatis, 



venosis, radicalibus ; scapo assurgente, subsquamoso, spi- 



cato. Brown Jam. p. 324. n. 5. 



The synonym quoted by Willdenow from Brown's His- 

 tory of Jamaica cannot belong to this plant nor to the genus, 

 none of the flowers of which have " Jong spurs ;" but pro- 

 bably a mistake has arisen from the misprint of the number 

 two, a synonym of the Orchis habenaria of Linn.eus, instead 

 of five, which appears to us to have been most probably the 

 synonym Swartz meant to have quoted, and which we have 

 accordingly adopted. 



The Neottia elata is not a plant of any great beauty, but 

 the whole family of Orchidea is more or less interesting, from 

 the singularly various formation of the parts of fructification. 



It is a native of Jamaica and Hispaniola. Requires the 

 heat of the stove. Blossoms in April, May, and June. In- 

 troduced in 1790 by Mr. John Pairbairn. Communicated 

 *>y John Walker, Esq. of Arno's Grove. 



