3, 4 
NEOTTIA speciosa. 
Showy Neottia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nat. Onv. ORCHIDE#. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cor ringens : petalis exterioribus, anticis labello imberbi sup- 
positis ; interioribus conniventibus. Columna aptera. Pollen farinaceum. 
= 4 
Neottia speciosa ; labello lanceolato indiviso, scapo bracteato, bracteis 
flore longioribus, foliis oblongis margine apicem versus undulatis.— 
Willd. 
Neottia speciosa, Wintp. Sp. Pi. v. iv. p. 72.—Anpr. Bot. Rep. t..8.—Bol. 
Mag. t. 1374.—Arron, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. vol. v. p. 198. a 
Root composed of several fasciculated fibres, each nearly as thick as the little 
finger, and flexuose ; from the crown of these rise 5 or 6 rather large, 
broadly ovate, bright green, undulated Jeaves, having a beautiful silky 
gloss, and marked with longitudinal veins, which.are again connect- 
ed by fainter transverse ones; the lower leaves running gradually down 
into a sheathing petiole. Scape a foot, or rather more, in height, cylin- 
drical at the base, angular above, almost concealed by the large, lanceo- 
late, sheathing, coloured scales, which above change gradually into brac- 
teas. Spike oblongo-ovate, of numerous, crowded, secund flowers, and 
these as well as the bracteas, by which their length is equalled or some- 
times surpassed, are of a fine red colour, changing to rose as they advance 
of the stigma two long, slender, yellow pollen-masses, v hich are fixed 
by the extremity to a lanceolate somewhat horny sheathing : 
