Huds. FI. Angl. (2ml od.) p. 387. — Sin. FI. Brit. v. iii. p. 930. — With. (7th od.) 
r. ii. p. 35. — Nentlia repens Willd. Sp. l’l. v. iv. pt. i. p. 75. — Pseudo-orchis, 
Bauli. Pin. p. 84. — Kudb. Camp. Elys. v. ii. p. 209. f. 8. — Palma Christi, ra- 
(lice repente, Johnson’s Gerardo, p. 227. 
Looai.it us. — In old fir forests, and mossy alpine woods in Scotland ; rare.— 
Aberdeenshire ; Firwood at north-west side of Denmore ; at Loch of Skene; 
1'atkhill ; flazelhead; Paik, &c., abundantly: Mr. G. Dickie. Firwood, 
Deeside : W. Stabi.es, in N. B.G. — Batiffshire ; Gordon Castle Woods : Mr. 
Muiiiiay, Curator of the Botanic- Gaiden, Glasgow. — Elginsh. Milton-Brodie 
Wood ; Crookit Wood ; Oak-wood ; and Altyre: Rev.G. GounoN.in N. B. G. — 
Forfarsh. Fir woods, near Forfar: Mr Don, of Forfar, in Headrick's Agri- 
cultural Survey of the County, p. 19, of the Appendix . — Inver nessh . In a wood 
opposite to Moy-hall. on the south side of the road to Inverness : Dr. Hope, in 
Light/. FI. Scot. Woods of Culloden, near Inverness : Mr. Murray. Forest 
of Glenmore: Mr. J. Hooki r, in N. B. G. Castle Grant: Rev. G. Gordon, 
ihid. —Nairnsh. Cawdor Woods : W. Stabi.es, in N. B. G. — Perthsh. Near 
Dupplin: M r. Sihllingt.aw. Woods of Scone : Mr. Murray. — Ross-shire ; 
Among the Hypna, ir, an old shady moist hanging birch wood, called, in the 
Erse language, Cudue, or yellow-hill, facing the house of Mr. Machenzie, of 
Dundonald, about two miles from the head of Little Loch Broom; on the 
western coa-t of the county : Rev. J. Lighteoot, 1777. 
Perennial. — Flowers from June to September. 
Root branched, knotted or jointed, with downy radicles, creep- 
ing among moss and rotten leaves, and throwing out new runners 
or shoots, each terminating in a solitary tuft of 6 or 8 broad- 
stalked, egg-shaped, bluntish leaves. Stems from the centre of 
some of these tufts, from 6 inches to a foot high, upright, roundish, 
pubescent. Leaves smooth, somewhat succulent, the lowest on 
broad petioles, egg-shaped, striated and reticulated, nearly flat; ' 
the upper ones sheathing, narrower ; the uppermost spear-shaped, 
or nearly awl-shaped, sessile, bracteiform. Flowers numerous, 
small, downy, white, sweet-scented, collected into a rather loose 
downy, twisted spike ; each flower with a spear-shaped, tapering, 
concave, downy bractea at its base, longer than the germen. Pe- 
rianth (fig. 3.) of 6 divisions, ringent (see fig. 2.) ; the 3 exterior 
leaflets , or sepals, (see fig. 1. & fig. 3, a, a, a.) nearly equal, egg- 
shaped, or egg-spear-shaped, concave, downy within ; the two 
upper of the three interior leaflets, or petals, (fig. 3. h, b.) the 
smallest ; smooth, and so closely united to the uppermost sepal, as 
to be scarcely distinguished from it, without close examination ; 
the sixth leaflet , or lip, (nectary of LiNN.y (see fig. 3, c. & fig. 4.) 
with a singularly gibbous base, white in the tumid part with lawny 
stripes ; the point white or pale red, spear-shaped, channelled, 
recurved, and projecting nearly as far as the inflated base. 
Column very short. Anther fixed beneath the apex of the 
column, parallel with the stigma, roundish egg-shaped, yellow, 
convex on the back, plane on the front, 2-celled, the cells opening 
longitudinally (see fig. 4, d.). Pollen-masses {fig. 5.) yellow, egg- 
shaped, granulated, affixed to the apex of the stigma, and falling 
off with it (see fig. 4, e.). Stigma large, white, placed in front, 
nearly square, at length 2-horned. Germen (see fig. 4, b.) egg- 
shaped, furrowed, slightly twisted, pubescent. Capsule (fig. 6.) 
light brown, smooth. See Sm. Engl. FI. and Hook. FI. Lond. 
In August last I received, through the kindness of an unknown friend, several 
fine specimens of this very rare and interesting plant, from Aberdeenshire ; and from 
one of those specimens the drawing for the accompanying plate was madeT 
