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Very rare, and new to the Flora of Japan. The Torcilddii-ran 

 named for the collector, who found out it first in Japan. 



Neottia Nidus avis Rich.; Spreng. Syst. Veg. III. p. 707 ; Peterm. 

 Deutsch. Fl. p. 557, tab. 87, fig. 684 ; C. Koch in Linntea XXII. p. 290 ; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV. p. 81; Koch. Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. 3, p. 603 ; 

 Nyman Syl. Fl. Europ. p. 354 ; Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. III. p. 595 ; 

 Benth. Hand. Brit. FJ. ed. 5, p. 439 ; Hook. fil. Stud. Fl. Brit. Isl. ed. 2, 

 p. 380; Benth. et Hook. fil. Gen. PI. III. p. 595; Sowerby Engl. Bot. IX. 

 p. 122, tab. 1478 ; Fr. Schm. Reis. im Amur. u. Ins. Sachal. p. 183 ; 

 Pfitzer in Engl, et Prantl Pfl.-Fam. 11. 6, p. 114, fig. 114; Finet in Bull. 

 Soc. Bot. France XLVII. p. 270. 



Oplinjs Nidus avis Linn. Sp. PI. p. 948, Cod. n. 6841 ; Houtt. Nat. 

 Hist. XXX. p. 503 ; Lam. Encycl. meth. Bot, IV. p. r^66 ; Engl. Bot. 

 tab. 48. 



Epipactis Nidus avis Crantz ; Willd. Sp. PI. IV. p. 87 ; Pers. Syn. 

 PI. 11. p. 513 ; Lam. et DC. Fl. Franc, ed. 3, IIL p. 260. 



Listera Nidtcs avis Hook. 



Serapias Nidus avis Steud. 



Neottidium Nidus avis Schlecht. 



Nidus Nidus avis Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. II. p. 674. 



Neottia macrosfelis Peterm. in Flora XXVII. (1844) p. 369. 



Neottia m'ohanchoidea St. Lag. 



Nom. Jap. Sakane-ran (K. Miyabe). 



Eab. Prov. Shimotsuicje : Mt. Nikko (B. lolci ! July 1900, sent by 

 K. Jo). 



Rare. This was also collected in Sobetsu (1887), Abashiri (1890), 

 Toya (1893), Yarashi (1893), and Towada by Revd. TJrb. Faurie. The 

 species reported by Mr. T. Kawakami, in Botanical Magazine, Tokyo, vol. 

 XIII. (1899) p. 266, and by me in Idem vol. XIV. (1900) p. 184, under 

 the name of Neottia Icamtschatica, is not Sprengel's and but Neottia Nidus 

 avis Richard. 



Neottia camtscliatea Reichb. fil. (= Neottia camtschatica Spreng. 

 = Neottia Jcamtsclmtica Lindl. = Ophrijs camtscliatea Linn. = Epipactis 

 camtscliatea Swartz = Oplmjs Icamtschatica Georgi = Epipactis Icamt- 

 scliatica Lindl. = Serapias camschatea Steud. = Oplirys aphylla Gmel.) 

 is not yet found in Japan and has the following habits : stem 8 cm. long, 

 filiform ; raceme as long as the stem : flowers laxly disposed ; perianth 

 patent; sepals ovate ; petals smaller than the sepals, linear, obtuse; labellum 



