AB XEN. 
GALEANDRA’ BAUERL: 
MR. BAUER’S GALEANDRA. 
Trisus: VAN DE ®.—Linptey. 
GALEANDRA .— Lindl. Illus. Orchid. Pl. 1. 8.—Gen. et Spe. exii. 
PeRIANTHIUM patens, vel connivens, sepalis petalisque ascendentibus, liberis. 
Labellum infundibuliforme, calcaratum, sessile intus lave, margine nune fimbriato. 
Columna erecta, membranaceo-alata, clinandrio declivi. Anthera galezformis, 
crista recurva cum dorso clinandrii cardinatdé. Pollinia 2, posticé excavata, cau- 
dicula brevi, cum glandula elongata basi divergenti-biloba, articulatéa.— Herbie 
terrestres vel epiphyte, foliis plicatis scapis radicalibus vel racemis terminalibus. 
Gaxteanpra Baueri; pseudo-bulbis attenuatis vel fusiformibus foliis lanceolatis acutis, racemo ter- 
minali pauci-vel-multifloro foliis superante, sepalis petalisque subzqualibus obovatis acutiusculis, labello 
maximo antico convoluto emarginato apiculato indiviso margine crenato, calcare ovario longiore. 
Galeandra Baueri. Lindl. Illus. Gen. et Spe. 1. c. 
Habitat in Mexico.—Ross. In Guatemalé.—Sxixner. In Guiand.—Marrtin. 
Description. 
PSEUDO-BULBS, variable in form, attenuated, or fusiform, four or five inches long, bearing several 
lanceolate, sharp-pointed plicated LEAVES, of about a foot in length. RACEME issuing from the apex 
of the pseudo-bulbs, nodding, clothed at the base with several imbricated striated BRACTS, many-flowered. 
SEPALS and PETALS nearly equal, obovate, acute ; all directed (as in Eulophia) towards the upper 
side of the flower,—nearly an inch long, yellowish green, tinged with dull red at the base. L1p, much 
larger than the other parts, convolute, obtuse, emarginate, undivided, but crenated along all the border ; 
white at the base outside, yellow on the inside, but, at the end, of a deep and bright rose-colour :—near the 
base, in the inside, are two elevated lines. CoLumn, almost concealed by the lip, dwarfish, erect, with a 
membranous margin. ANTHER, helmet-shaped. 
THIS rare Orchidaceous plant has been long known to English botanists, although, prior to the year 
1838, it had never been imported in a living state. It was first discovered by Marvin, in Guiana; and 
from specimens then collected, Mr. Bavrr prepared the admirable drawings which appear in Professor 
Lindley’s « Illustrations of the Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants.” The species would appear to 
be extremely rare in the seat of its original discovery, since none of the many botanical collectors who 
have recently visited that country have succeeded in obtaining even a solitary specimen of it. Mr. Coniey, 
Mr. Hencuman, Mr. Scuompurer, and others, have all successively sought it, but in vain; and when, 
at length, Mr. Barker was so fortunate as to obtain possession of a single plant, he was indebted for his 
good fortune to the exertions of his collector, Mr. Ross, who re-discovered the species in the neighbourhood 
of Oaxaca, a distance of some thousand miles from the spot where it was formerly found ! 
* So called by Professor Lindley, from galea, “a helmet,” and aynp, “a man,” in allusion to the helmet-like form of the anther. 
