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* yy NEOTTIA PLANTAGINEA. 
Plantain-leaved Neottia. 
-GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. —Nart. Orp. ORCHIDEE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cor. ringens: petalis exterioribus anticis labello imberbi sup= 
‘positis; interioribus conniventibus. Columna aptera. Pollen farina- 
ceum.—Br. , 
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- Neottia ee foltis radicalibus oblongo-lantedlatisy scapo 0 aphiyliae . 
perianthii laciniis tribus exterioribus lineari-acuminatis, extus pubes- 
centi-glandularis, basi in calcare longo producto adnato terminatis. 
Radical leaves 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 bractez, 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 asin N. epee. 
A native of Trinidad in the West Indies, Wihtcle it wae, 
communicated to our Botanic Garden and that of Liverpool by 
the late Baron DE Scuack. It flowered in both these esta- _ 
blishments i 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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