Tas. 4701. 
GALEANDRA Bauvenrt; var. floribus luteis. 
Bauer's Casquewort ; yellow-flowered variety. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEH.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4610.) 
GaLEANDRA Baueri; caule simplici, foliis lanceolatis trinerviis, corymbo termi- 
nali pedunculato nutante foliis breviore, pedunculo squamis lineari-lanceo- 
latis membranaceis vaginato, sepalis petalisque lineari-oblongis acutiusculis, 
labello maximo antico emarginato apiculato crenulato, calcare ovario equali. 
Lindl. 
GaLEanpra Baueri. Lindl. Gen. et Spec. Orchid. p.186. Bateman, Orchid. Mex. 
et Guatem. t.19. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, tad. 49. 
Var. floribus luteis, labello sanguineo-lineatim-maculato. (Tan. Nos. 4701.) 
The rarer and much larger-flowered Galeandra Devoniana, 
with a short blunt curved spur to the lip, is figured at our Tab. 
4610. Of the present species we have figures in Mr. Bateman’s 
splendid ‘ Orchidaceze of Mexico and Guatemala,’ and in the ‘ Bo- 
tanical Register’ as above quoted. Our plant, however, drawn 
from a fine specimen at Syon Gardens, differs from those, remark- 
ably, in the colour of its flowers, which there have sepals and 
petals green, and the lip dull purple ; here the flower is of a deep 
yellow, lip as well as the sepals and petals, the former marked 
with blood-coloured dotted lines. In other respects there is no 
difference worth noticing. According to Dr. Lindley this species 
has a widely extended locality in South America. It was origi- 
nally discovered in French Guiana by the French collector Martin, 
and upon his specimens the genus was founded by Dr. Lindley. 
Subsequently it was found in Mexico by Mr. Ross, a collector 
for Mr. Barker, near Melacatapee ; thus these two countries are 
considered to be its northern and southern limits. Hartweg 
appears also to have sent it to the Horticultural Society, probably 
from New Grenada, and in his plants the colour of the flowers 
was said to be much duller than those which had been received 
from Mexico. 
MARCH Ist, 1853. 
