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Gr. cristata, Lindley. — A desirable dwarf-growing species, 

 about eight inches high, with the habit of G. JJevoniana. 

 The flowers, which are produced in a drooping raceme, are, 

 however, much smaller, and of a pink and dark purple colour ; 

 they have the linear-lanceolate sepals and petals reflexed, and 

 the lip convolute, crisped at the edge and pubescent within, 

 with two keels at the base ; the spur is acuminate, horizontal, 

 and the anther has a peculiar rhomboid purple crest mounted 

 OQ a white shaft. These flowers appear in July and August, 

 and last four or five weeks in perfection. — Cayenne. 



(j. Devoniana, Lindley.— k 

 beautiful epiphytal Orchid of 

 slender habit, growing about two 

 feet high — five to six feet in its 

 native haimts. The stems are 

 erect, terete, and when young have 

 many leaves, which are lanceolate, 

 sheathing, and three-nerved. The 

 blossoms, which are produced in 

 pendent racemes from the top of 

 the stems, have ascending lance- 

 shaped sepals and petals of a 

 darkish purple with green mar- 

 gins ; the lip is large, broadly 

 obovate, the sides meeting over 

 the column, the front projected 

 forward, white, the apex thickly 

 striped and pencilled with purple, 

 the disk bearing four lamellae, and 

 the spur at the base being green 

 and recurved. It blooms at dif- 

 ferent times of the year, and 

 GALEANDRA PEVQNiANA. remalus a long time in beauty. 



Y 16. —Lindley, Sert. Orch., t. 37; Bot. Mag., t. 4610; Batem. 2nd Cent., 

 t. 152 ; Warner, Set. Orch. PL, i. t. 37 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., viii. 145, with 

 tab. ; Illust. Hort., t. 176 ; Maund. Bot., v. t. 231 ; Lem. Jard. FL, t. 195. 



Gr. diYeS, Rchb. f. — A very pretty dwarf-growing epiphytal 

 species, with stout erect cylindrical stems, lanceolate acumi- 

 nate leaves, and flowers produced from the top of the stems 

 in di'ooping racemes in August and September. The sepals 

 and petals are subequal lanceolate acuminate, reddish brown, 

 and the lip transversely rhomboid, retuse in front, creamy 



