Cit Ase Bon Xe: 
GALEANDRA. 
THIS genus consists of about ten species, all of which 
are natives of tropical America. Three or four only are 
worth cultivating: these, when their requirements are 
properly understood, are very satisfactory, because of the 
beauty of the flowers and the long time they remain in per- 
fection. They have erect, stem-like pseudo-bulbs, bearing 
several long and narrow leaves in two opposite rows, and 
producing the inflorescence from the top as soon as growth 
is completed. The distinctive part of the flower is the 
lip, which is large and somewhat funnel-shaped. 
. Culture.—The best success with these plants is attained 
by growing them in well-drained pots or baskets of fibrous 
peat, in a light position near the glass in the warm 
house, with copious supplies of water during the time of 
active growth. When that period is over they must be 
removed to cooler quarters, and the amount of water at 
the root proportionately reduced. Their greatest enemies 
are thrips and red spider: these must be closely guarded 
against by keeping a moist atmosphere about the plants, 
and by occasionally dipping them in weak tobacco-water. 
G. Baueri.—This is a pretty-flowered species, with three- 
nerved, lance-shaped leaves, and pseudo-bulbs about tft. 
