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NEOTTIA PLANTAGINEA. 
Plantain-leaved Neottia. 
GYNANDKIA MONANDRIA— Nat. Okd. ORCHIDEM. 
Gen. Char.— Cor. ringens : petalis exterioribus anticis labello imberbi sup- 
positis; interioribus conniventibus. Columna aptera. Pollen farina- 
ceum. — Br. 
^eoiiidi plantaginea; foliis radicalibus oblongo-lanceolatis, scapo aphyllo, 
perianthii laciniis tribus exterioribus lineari-acuminatis, extus pubes- 
centi-glandularis, basi in calcare longo producto adnato terminatis. 
Radical haves 1-3, 5-6 inches long, oblongo-lanceolate, nerved, tapering at 
the base, but not petiolated. The scape is destitute of leaves, but has 
5 or 6 sheathing, lanceolato-acuminate, appressed bracteae, rounded, 
erect, tapering upwards, glabrous below, glanduloso-pubescent above. 
Spike oblong, of several closely placed, nearly erect, greenish-red flowers, 
afterwards bent down. Three outer segments of the perianth erect, 
glanduloso-pubescent, united at the base, the two lower ones running 
down (and adnate with the germen) into a hollow obtuse spur, al- 
most half the length of the germen : two inner segments nearly as 
long as the outer ones, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, quite glabrous, ly- 
ing within the two upper of the outer segments, and appressed to, and 
slightly cohering with them. Lip inserted into the base of the spur, 
linear-lanceolate, recurved at the extremity, of a pale rose colour. Ger- 
men clavate, sulcate, twisted, glandular. Column of fructification exact- 
ly as in N. speciosa. 
A native of Trinidad in the West Indies, whence it was 
communicated to our Botanic Garden and that of Liverpool by 
the late Baron De Schack. It flowered in both these esta- 
blishments in the month of April of the present year. Simi- 
lar as the flowers may be in structure to those of N. speciosa 
and N. orchioides, they possess little of their beauty ; for they 
are entirely of a livid greenish-red. The plant is of much taller 
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