NEOTTIA 
| CLASS XxX. 
GYNAN. eet IA DIANDRIA. 
GENERIC 
Shapes vyage. Spadix fimplex. 
Conouta Petala quinque, longitudine zquila, 
-lanceolata, erecta. 
NeGarium monophyllum, indivifum, acumina- 
, intra petala interiora pofitum, bafin 
al femiamplectens, ereCtum, fuperne pa- 
ii. Bilamenia duo, e; ex limbo ftyli dorfali 
nceeolata. A 
S 
-adnatus labio fuperiori neétarii. 
obfoletum. 
PERICARPIUM. Capfula unilocularis, carnofa, 
ma, trivalvis. 
PLATE - II. 
SPECIOSA. 
Flefh-coloured Neottia. 
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ORDER IU. 
Chives on the Pointal. ‘Two Chives. 
CHARACTER. 
Empatement. Sheath fcattered. Fruit-ftalk 
imple. 
Brossom. Petals five, of equal length, of a 
narrow fpear-fhape, and upright. 
Honey-cup one leaf, undivided, fharp pointed, 
placed between the two inner petals, naam 
embracing the bafe of the fhaft, upright, 
fpreading at the top. 
Two threads, rifing out of the back 
of the thaft, fpear-fhaped. Tips two, linear, 
long, placed in the cells of the threads 
Pointa. Seed-bud beneath, curved, furrowed, 
tapering at the bafe. Shaft thick, growing 
to the upper lip of the honey-cup. Summit 
indiftiné. 
Seep-vessex, Capfule with one cell, flefhy, 
very long, three valves. 
SEMINA ean minutiffima. SEEDS numerous, very {mall. 
CHARACTER. 
Neottia, with leaves growing from the root, 
waved, of a broad fpear-fhape, tapered at 
the bafe; flowers prefled together in a 
fpike, flefh-coloured, and moft beautiful. 
- SPECIFIC 
Neottia, foliis ridiellibius, undulatis, lato- 
_ Janceolatis, bafi attenuatis; floribus con- 
fertis, fpicatis, incarnatis, {peciociflimis, 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Bloffom, Seed-bud, and Sheath, — fize). 
2. The Seed-bud, and three Petals of th —— the two inner cut out, to fhew the pofition 
: of the Honey-cup, (natural fize). 
ss 8, Seed-veffel, and Honey-cup magnified; fhewing the fituation, and fhape of the Chives, 
,  s within the sie 
‘ 4. The fame magnified; thewing the fituation of the Pointal, at the back of the Honey-cup. 
a 
Proressor Jacquin of Vienna, having figured the Neottia in the third yolume of his Colleétanea, 
with juftice has determined it a new genus, and given it the name it here bears; the whole habit of 
the plant being entirely diffimilar to any old. genera. It certainly nent be placed fomewhere near 
Limodorum, or Epidendron, from either of y diftin&. This is the 
Line ail lant from that ifland, it requires the heat of a 3 : | 
pine-ftove, and rich earth, to make it 
flourith ; — a 
