PLATE III. 



NEOTTIA SPECIOSA. 



Flejh- coloured Neottia. 



CLASS XX. ORDER II. 



GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 



GENERIC CH 

 Calyx. Spathae vagoe. Spadix fimplex 



Corolla. Petala quinque, longitudine sequila, 

 angufte-lanceolata, eredba. 



Nedarium monophyllum, indivifum, acumina- 

 tum, intra petala interiora pofitum. bafin 

 ftyli femiampleftens, ere&um, fuperne pa- 

 tulum. 



Stamina. Filamenta duo, ex limbo ftyli dorlali 

 orta, lanceolata. Antherae duae, lineares, 

 longae, locatae in loculum filamenti. 



Pistillum. Germen inferum, curvatum, ful- 

 catum, inferne attenuatum. Stylus craffus, 

 adnatus labio fuperiori neftarii. Stigma 

 oblbletum. 



Pericarpium. Capfula unilocularis, carnofa, 

 longiffima, trivalvis. 



Semi n a numerofa, minutifiima. 



SPECIFIC CH 

 Neottia, foliis radicalibus, undulati-% lato- 

 lanceolatis, ba:i atten :' ; s; floribus con- 

 fertis, fpicatis, incarnatis fpeciociffu 



ARACTER. 



Emtalement. Sheath fcattered. Fruit-ftalk 



fimple. 

 Blossom. 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, half 



embracing the bale of the {haft, upright, 



fpreading at the top. 

 Chives. Two threads, rifing out of the back 



of the (haft, fpear-fhaped. Tips two, linear, 



long, placed in the cells of the threads. 

 Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, curved, furrowed, 



tapering at the bafe. Shaft thick, growing 



to the upper lip of the honey-cup. Summit 



indiftinct. 

 Seed-vessel. Capfule with one cell, flefhy, 



very long, three valves. 

 Seeds numerous, very fmall. 



ARACTER. 



Neottia, with leaves growing from the root, 

 •wav^ ', of a broad fpear-fhape, tapered at 

 the bafej flowers preffed together in a 

 fpi' i, flefh-coloured, and molt beautiful. 



REFEREISCi TO HE PLAT.-'. 



1. A Bloffom, Seed-bud, and Shi >th, (rtaltu ' i> ). 



2. The Seed-bud, and three Petals of the B] ., the two inn r cut > .:, to fliew the pofition 



t>f the Honey-cup, (natural fize). 



3. Seed-veffel, and Honey-cup magnified; fii„, ing th< ituati ., and i 1 [>e of th<3 Chives, 



within the Honey-cup. 



4. The fame magnified; fhewing the fituation of the Pointal at the back of the . oaey-cup. 



Professor Jacquin of Vienna, having figured the Neottia in the third volume rf his Cu'''/1 a, 

 with juftice has determined it a new genus, and given it the name it here bears; the whole habu of 

 the plant being entirely diffimilar to any old genera. It certainly mult be placed fomewhere near 

 Limodorum, or Epidendron, from either of which, however, it ftands perfectly diftinct. This is the 

 only fpecies yet in England, and was introduced from the illand of Jamaica, about the year 1^93, by 

 the Hon. Mrs. Barrington The drawing from which the prefent figure is taken, was made (by 

 her kind permiffion) from a plant in the extenfive collection of the Hon. Lady Archer, Ham-common. 

 Like all plants from that illand, it requires the heat of a pine-ftove, and rich earth, to make it 

 flourifh; is increafed by the root, and flowers in the early part of the year. 



