326 oechid-groweb's manual. 



about two and a half inches in diameter, the sepals and 

 petals dull purplish green, the lip large, three-lobed, the 

 middle lobe very blunt, undulated, white with crimson stripes 

 at the base, the lateral lobes rolled, and the spur subulate. 

 It flowers in September and October. — West Tropical Africa. 



Fia.—Loddiffes, Bot. Cab., t. 818 ; Bot. Mag., t. 2467 ; Bot. Reg., t. 686. 



E. guineensis purpnrata, RcKb. /. — A very rare and beauti- 

 ful variety of E. guineensis, having flowers much richer in 

 colour than in the ordinary forms ; sepals and petals deep 

 rosy purple, lip rich bright magenta, traversed by deep crim- 

 son veins. The pseudobulbs are roundish ovate, and the 

 somewhat plicate leaves are oblong-acuminate, six inches long, 

 narrowed below into a petiole. The scapes, which rise from 

 the base of the bulbs, are a foot or more in height, and bear 

 a raceme of seven to ten pedicellate spurred flowers. The 

 sepals and petals are linear-acuminate, deep rosy purple, all 

 directed upwards, and the broad roundish-ovate pointed front 

 lobe of the lip is of a bright magenta, traversed by crimson 

 flabellate veins, which become deep rosy purple as they con- 

 verge towards the base, the extreme base being white, and 

 the short blunt side lobes blush. The slender spur is deep 

 purple, and the column rosy purple. It is a charmingly 

 beautiful richly coloured plant. — West Tropical Africa. 



Tig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 89. 



GrALEANDRA, Lhidley. 



{Tribe Vandese, subtribe Ealophiese.) 



Some of the species belonging to this genus are small- 

 flowered, and possess little beauty to attract the attention of 

 amateurs ; a few, however, have large and beautifully coloured 

 blossoms, and are well deserving general cultivation. They are 

 deciduous terrestrial or epiphytical plants, with erect slender 

 distichous plicate leaves, becoming consolidated at the base into 

 tuberiform or elongated stems, which produce their racemose 

 inflorescence from the top, just as they have finished their 

 growth. Their flowers are peculiar in the lip assuming the 



