

Plate XXXV11. 



GALEANDRA DEVONIANA. 



GALEANDRA* (Bauer's Illustrations of Orchidavams Plants; Gtwra, I, Cf, 

 Ijmllctfs Genera $ Spcdes of Orchidaceous Plants, p t 180- Botanical Register 

 for 184U, (Ail) Perianthium patens \w\nlU wpali»4qut* itiilnvquulibiis ascondeB- 

 tibus. Labelluni tafrndibuHforae, indivisum v. obsolete trilnlmm, caicnraimu, 

 int&s lamcllifi (4) auctum. Oolumna erccta membranaoeo-alata, clinandrio 

 dcclivi. PolUuia 2, |K*tic* cxcavata, raudicula brevi glimduto brovi divergent! 



bilolxc nduatfi. Herbs terrain, el epiphytic, caulilme fotiatis, rowwifc 



term inn Hints, 



G.Detoniana; caulc ereclo giiiiplici tcreti polyphyllu, foliiS lunccolatis S-nerviie, 

 racemo scssili erecto muUilloro, labclli lamina uvatfi obtusa crcnulalfi lamc-llU 

 4 pone basin, anthem; crista oaraosft rotundatji pubatoonta 



G- Dcvoniana, Schomburgk in /itleris. 



Among the many interesting plants Bent from British Guayona to Mcttrt, Loddige* hy -Mr. 

 Schoraburgk was thai now represented, concerning winch I Imrc received the following memorandum 

 from this distinguished traveller. 



11 During our peregri nation* we have seen this plant no where else, but at (he hanks of the Kio 

 Negro, a tributary of the Amazon, where, in the neighbourhood of Barccllos. or Marina, we found it 

 growing in large clusters on the trees which lined the river, sometimes on the Maudlin aculcnta, or 

 even on the ground, where the soil consisted of vegetable mould. It was so luxuriant in growth, 

 that some of the large cluster* of stem* which sprouted from a common root might have been from 

 ten to twelve feet in circumference. When 1 fir*t observed them on that pretty Paha the Maurilin 

 aculeata, I considered it to he an Epidriidrum, allied in it* imtward appearance to that specie.* which 

 you have done inn the honour to call after me. Wv did not find either buds, flowers, or seeds when 

 we passed the Rio Negro in April : and even on a closer inspection its appearance resembled some of 

 the lLpidendreie. The stems were often from five lo six feci high ; at the lower part almost of a 

 purple appearance, and changing into green higher up. As tt I ready observed tt is very ahum!. in? 

 about Barccllos, and equally in the vicinity of llnrcuduun or lVdrero ; I wonder therefore that it 

 escaped Spi\ ( when he vitited the Rio Negro. Although the Rio Bronco falls into the Itio Negro 

 nbotr Pedrcro, wc did not observe a single »]>ecimen in that river, nor do I think that it is in the 

 Amazon, as it is not likely that it would have escaped Martius. As soon as I looked at i(, when it 

 w&j for the first time in blossom at Messrs. Loddtgcs. I considered it to be a Galenndra. and observed 

 so much lo you, who had not seen it as yet. As its iiower is not only larger than the generality of 

 its tribe, but likewise handsome, J availed myself the readier of this opportunity to request the 

 permission of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire that I might call it in honour of him, who not only 







