is known M one of the most successful cldMM of Mb. (me of .1.0 «« interring -ribes among 

 monocotylod^U-pUoU. tot of whose urbanity and condescension I Lave personally exponent 



numerous proofs since my return lo Europe." 



Thai it is a Galcandm .here is no doubt; but it render* it necessary to modify the cwcm.nl 

 cW.tr of that genus, concerning who* true marks of distinction the present » a favourable 

 opportunity for making a few observations. . , 



When Gtdcaudm WM first proposed I had imagined .hat the original spec.es. G. Bauer., might 

 be combined wi.h the Eulophia graeilis of -he Botanical Register, and n thin! Sierra I^onc plan. 

 by .he funnel-shaped undivided lip. the crested anther, and the peculiar fen. of the gland to wh.ch 

 .he pollca-mutt. arc attached. But while experience shews thai these character* arc .n fact essential 

 ,o the genus Gnlenndra, it also teaches us that they arc also in part unimportant, and thai * » 

 requisite for them to be combined with other pcculiari.ic* in order ,0 conttlulo a really good 

 genus. Of the characters to I* rejected the crested anther is the principal ; of those to be added. 

 tho presence of four parallel plates upon the Up, and a terminal inllorcscencc. appear cssent.a 

 The Eulophia gracilis will in that case be excluded from the genus Galcnmlra. and so perhaps mil 

 G. cxtiuctoria, both which require further examination in order to determine whether or not they are 

 to be stationed definitively in the genus Eulophia. 



With regard to that genus. Zygopctalum, and some others nearly allied lo Galcandra, they 

 involve some very difficult enquiry, for which sufficient materials have hardly been as yet 



accumulated. 



To the genus Galeandra. in it* restricted sense, I have one specie* lo add ; a grassy plant abou. 

 two feet high, with long narrow leaves, small pink .lowers, and tubers in *iu> and form resembling 

 the cormi of a Crocus. Mr. Schomburgk found it in abundance in.jho Savannahs, adjacent to the 

 River Becbicc j and Dr. von Martins met wi.h it in Brazil, in fields near Almeirim in the Province 

 of Para. It may be distinguished thus : 



G. juncea ; tuberosa. caule stricto paucifoHo. foliis linearibns acuminatis trinerviis longC vagi- 

 nantibus, raccmo crccto multifloro. labclli lamina dcnticulala obsolete triloba rolundnlA lamellis 

 4 pone basin con.iguis juxta medium ineurvis exinde in tribus scrrulatis contlucntibus. 





