LIPAEIS 47 



br. ; lateral shorter, nearly 5 mm. 1., 2*5 mm. br., slightly falcate. Petals 

 greenish streaked with purple, 3-nerved, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, as 

 long as the median sepal, 5'5 mm. 1., about 1*5 mm. br. Lip 4 mm. 1., 

 and nearly as broad. Column suberect, curved, channelled anteriorly and 

 winged, 35 mm. 1. Capsule obovoid, 15 cm. 1., 5-6 mm. br. 



18. GALEANDRA Lindl. 



Terrestrial herb. Raceme terminal. Sepals equal, free, 

 spreading. Petals similar to sepals. Lip attached at base of 

 column, orbicular, produced into a very short conical spur, erect, 

 disk with longitudinal crests. Column short, without a foot. 

 Anther terminal, opercular, incumbent, imperfectly 2-celled ; 

 pollinia 4, ovoid, waxy, on the dehiscence of the anther affixed 

 to a gland of the rostellum. 



Species about 25, natives of tropical America from Mexico 

 and the West Indies to Brazil. 



Galeandra Beyriehii Beichb. f. in Linnsea xxii. 854 (1849); 

 Cogn. in Fl. Bras. Hi. pt. 4, 308, /. 74 & in Symb. Ant. vi. 380. 

 (PI. 7, f. 1-3.) 



In dry woodland; in fl. and fr. Sept. ; St. Ann, J. P. 531. Steer ! Hope- 

 ton, Westmoreland, 1300 ft., Harris) Fl. Jam. 9780. Cuba, Venezuela, 

 Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru. 



Plant terrestrial, to 4 ft. high. Stem robust, with thickened pseudo- 

 bulb-like joints, including raceme 8-12 dm. 1. with no leaves during 

 flowering, but covered with sheaths and terminated by a raceme of 

 greenish flowers. Rhizome short, stout, covered with scales, and bearing 

 numerous roots. Sheaths, 12-15, large, loose, scarious, somewhat over- 

 lapping, free portion triangular-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, 3-10 

 cm. 1., at the base of the stem small and embracing, generally tubular below, 

 but becoming bract-like above. Leaves (not seen, but from figure and 

 description in Fl. Bras. loc. cit.) appearing after flowering, erect, large, 

 elongate-lanceolate, very acute, with 3 thick nerves, 3 dm. 1., 3-3*5 cm. 

 br., tapering insensibly below into a robust stalk about 1 dm. 1. Eaceme 

 long, lax, several-flowered (10-12), a fruiting specimen measured 2*5 dm. 1. 

 Bracts oblong, tapering to an acute or shortly acuminate apex, about as 

 long as the flower-stalks, 1-2 cm. 1., 3-6 mm. br. Flowers greenish, 

 erect-spreading, large, stalked, perianth nearly an inch 1. Ovary terete, 

 tapering gradually to base, about as long as sepals. Sepals linear-oblong, 

 tapering to base and apex, keeled, 5-nerved, green, 2*3 cm. 1., lateral 

 rather broader than median (6 mm. br.), with a blunt apiculate apex ; 

 median 5 mm. br., obtuse. Petals oblanceolate, abruptly acute, 5-7- 

 nerved, light green, a little shorter than the sepals but as broad as the 

 lateral. Lip with numerous nerves, almost orbicular, shorter than the 

 sepals, broader than long, about 2 cm. 1., 2- 5 cm. br. when flattened, 

 green with lines of crimson, disk with 4 crests running from the base to 

 the middle, pubescent between the crests, in the middle and along the 

 nerves above the crests. Column barely 1 cm. 1., stout, thicker upwards, 

 concave in front with short hairs on apex ; anther with short hairs, 

 shortly conical. Capsule reflexed, ellipsoidal, about 2- 5 cm. 1. 



