PLATE CCCLXXVI. 
NEOTTIA MINOR. 
acter 
The Lesser Neottia. 
CLASS 3S" ORDER I. 
GYNANDRIA sehen Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
SPATH# vage. Spadix simplex. Corolla pe- SHEATHS scattered. Fruit-stalk simple. Co- 
= ue tala 5 zqualia erecta. Nectarium mo- x rolla 5 petals of equal length erect. Nec- 
nophyllum indivisum acuminatum, tary one-leafed undivided sharp-pointed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Wises: foliis ellipticis acuminatis quintu- | Neorria, with elliptic sharp-pointed leaves, 
plinerviis. with five nerves meeting above the base. 
“Negorr1a minor, foliis planis, spathis virescentibus. Jac. Ic. 3. 16. t. 601.—SatTyrium elatum. Gmel. 
Syst. Nat. 2. 56.—Serartas Neottia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2.59. monente Dryandro, in Linn, Tr. 2.215. 
: Daven, Folia elliptica, acuminata, quintuplinervia, nervo medio subtus ceteris multo majore, | 
, infra pallidiora. Cautis tereti-compressus, pubescens 1—3-pedalis, foliis alternis spatha- 
ceis, remotis, instructus. Flores siccos exceptos non possideo, H. 
obec. Se REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
: 1, A Dlossom, seed-bud and sheath. 
ae oe The same magnified without the sheath, the cover of the tips elevated. 
— a eee A flower without the honey-cup. — 
ee _ 4. The chives and pointal as they oecr detached. 
5. The peas magnified. 
Wuart the Neottia minor wants in place and beauty, is counterbalanced by the interesting 
—— it its flowers ; which however i is ‘not ae to it; but a aga in the fine order to which 
1i established it as a district genus, it was conte as a species of, and retained a 
the genus Serapias, as well as the more’showy N. speciosa of our third plate. 
Lesser Ni ttia is a native of the West Indies ; is a very tender hot-house plant, but grows — 
— either i in or Ses of the cated rises to the . of about three feet, and 
ies at Chelsea. Our acticin was c= at bady De Clitford's se ee 
