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NEOTTIA orchioides. 
Jamaica Neottia. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIAZ, | 
Nat. ord, ORCHIDEX. Jussieu gen.64. Brown prod. 1. 309. Div. I. 
Anthera stigmati parallela persistens. Masse pollinis vel farinacee vel é 
corpusculis an 
gulatis; apicibus stigmati aflixe. “Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
5. 197. : 
NEOTTIA. Supra vol. 7. fol. 602. 
N- orchioides, scapo stricto foliis glauciusculis preecociore floribusque pubes- 
centibus; corolla sacco recto oblongo obeso antico ad basin aucta; co- 
lumna glaberrima; stigmate infra unilabiato-lobato. — - 
Neottia orchioides. Swartz prod. 118. flor. ind. occid. 3.1411. Willd. 
sp. pl. 4.75. Curtis's magaz. 1036? ~ Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5.198. 
Satyrium. 7; aphyllum, scapo erecto simplici subsquamoso spicato. Browne 
jam. 325. . i : , “ 
Fol. plura, elongato-lanceolata, glabra, glauca, post defloratam spicam 
procrescentia, bast vaginantia. Scapus bipedalis, crassitudine calami, sub- 
lanato-villosus, melino-pallescens, strictus, erectus, teres, inferne vaginatus, 
inde spicd tenis aphyllus. Vagine glabre, _foliacee, distantes, cucul- 
_ lato-convolute, acuminate acumine erecto. Spica numerosa, erecta, 4-5- 
_uncialis, sparsa, patens, floribus resupinatis, melino-erubescentibus, viscosi- 
usculis, laxits approximatis, oblongis, supra bilabiato-patulis, cum germine 
simul uncialibus v. circiter, extis sublanato-villosis. Bractee lanceolate 
longitudine florum, pallentes, pubescentes. Petala 5, subequalia, lanceo- 
lata; summum exterius pauld latius, 
oblongo-lanceolatum, erectum, acutum, 
lateralibus2 interioribus @ latere utroque coadunato-incumbens et cum iis labium 
superius erectum concavum efformans, basi in gibbum brevem abruptum germen 
postice decurrentem terminans ; lateral 
ia 2 interiora pallidiora, subhyalina, sub- 
dimidiato-lanceolata acuminata margine interiore rectiore ; lateralia 2 exte- 
riora lanceolata, subulato-acuminata, subbreviora, erecta, superné patentia, — 
labellum inter se recipientia, germini sects frontem profundé adnata inque 
saccum rectum obesum obtusum cum convolute 
roductd labelli basi conniventia 
necnonadultimum. finem inter se connata: labellum inclusum, carneo-candicans, 
crassius firmiusque sed equale petalis, ovato-lanceolatum, rostrato-acumina-_ 
tum, convoluto-concavum, porrectum, apice recurvun, columnam complec- 
tens, basi demissé productum convolutu 
m lanato-barbatum et intra petalorum 
exteriorum saccum conferruminate inclusum. Columna inclinat 
a, carneo- 
albicans, labelli. equilongi involutis lateribus comprehensa, oblonga, semicy- 
lindrica, tota glabra, antic? convexa et faciet germinis intra basin cornutam 
labelli incluse oblique adnata, supra in rostellum rectum gracile aciculari- 
elongatum abrupte producta, postice antherifera: anth. melino-fulvescens line- 
ari-lanceolata convexa, dorsum cavum columne omnino occupans, biloc., septo 
duplicato longitudinali intercepta; masse pollinis 2, reverse, farinacee, 
ochroleuce, clavato-elongate, parallele, anguste, sursim edicellato-atte- 
nuate pediculis superne Aas cartilagineo 
i eam unum coalescentibus, retinaculo. 
lineari-elongato proscollam terminalem rostelli paralleli affigente affine 
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