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NEOTTEA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWERED 
NEOTTIA. 
Class and Order. 
GynanpRiA Monanpria, 
{ Nat. Ord —Orcuwea. ) 
Generic Charaeter. 
Cor. ringens: petalis exterioribus anticis labello imberbi 
suppositis ; interioribus conniventibus. Colwmna aptera. 
Pollen farinaceum. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Neorria grandiflora ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis sessilibus sub- 
carnosis immaculatis, scapo bracteato, petalis anticis 
decurrentibus labello semiinfero ecalcarato suppositis. 
Spiranrues grandiflora. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1043. 
Descr. Terrestrial, stemless. QLeaves ovato-lanceolate, 
sessile, bright green, having a few large semipellucid spots, 
springing from the crown of the root. They are six to 
eight inches long, concayo-carinate, with a central rib, and 
Several parallel obscure nerves ; the margin waved: the 
Substance is rather thick and fleshy, more succulent than in 
N. picta. Scape a foot or more high, having several brac- 
tee, ovate, or ovato-lanceolate, appressed, gradually be- 
coming smaller, and passing into the linear-lanceola 
bractee of this flower :—this scape is thick, succulent, 
pubescent, sulcated; at the extremity the flowers are ar- 
ranged in a lax spike, occupying about one-third of the 
Seape. The flowers are large, erect, the greater part of 
the perianth or petals declined almost at right angles ; so 
that the whole, especially in bud, has a strong resemblance 
to the head and neck of a bird: their colour is pale uni- 
form green, except the two inner petals and the labellum, 
which are pole and yellower: the whole flower too, is, ex- 
ternally, clothed with dense succulent white hairs, except 
the inner petals and the labellum : this pubescence is, how- 
ever, far more conspicuous on the germen than on the 
petals, and the apices of all the petals are alesse] 
: ee Stabrous 
