6 GALEANDRA. 



basal half rolled over the columu into a tube and prolonged below mto 

 a funnel-shaped spur, usually light yellow ; the apical half open, rose- 

 purple bordered with white. Column semi-terete, pale green. 



Galeandra Batemanii, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. XII. s. 3 (1892), p, 431. G. Baueri, 



Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 49. Batem. Orch. Mex. ct Guat. t. 19.* Paxt. Mag. Bot. 



XIV. p. 49. Rchb. in ^Yalp. Ann. VI. p. 649. Williams' Orch. Alb. VI. t. 267. 



Introduced from Mexico in 1838 by Mr. Barker, of Birmingham, 

 through his collector Ross, who communicated the following particulars 

 of its habitat : — 



He met with it at a place called Kisatipa, ten leagues from 

 Melacatapec, growing at the upper end of a dry ravine, terminating 

 half-way up the mountains in a south-west aspect. The temperature 

 varies from 20°— 25° C. (69^—77° F.) by day, and falls to about 

 15'' C. (59° F.) by night. The mountains surrounding this ravine, that 

 is, on the north-east side, are covered with a great variety of Orchideae, 

 whilst on the south side of the ravine there are none to be foimd. 

 On the top of the mountains there is a continual mist all the year, 

 December to February excepted ; the atmosphere is particularly moist 

 and warm.f 

 It was subsequently sent from southern Mexico to the Horticul- 

 tural Society of London by Hartweg ; it was also detected by Mr. 

 G. Ure Skinner in Guatemala. The species is named in compliment 

 to Mr. James Bateman, the veteran orchidologist, by whom it was 

 first described and figured in his Orchidacece of Mexico and Guatemala.'^ 

 The usual flowering season of Galeandra Batemanii is July — August. 

 This plant has been in cultivation for more than half a century under 

 the name of Galeandra Baueri, in the erroneous belief that it Avas the same 

 species as the original G. Baueri described by Lindley in his Illus- 

 trations of Orchidaceous Plants. The error originated in Mr. Bateman 

 having mistaken the Mexican plant discovered by Eoss for the same 

 species as that collected by Martin in French Guiana, a locality, as he 

 himself observed, 1,000 miles away. 



G. Baueri. 



" Stems clustered, sub-cylindric or fusiform, 15 — 20 inches long. 

 Leaves lanceolate, sharply acuminated, 7 — 9 inches long. Kacemes 

 terminal, drooping, many-flowered ; bracts subulate, acute, longer than 

 the pedicels. Flowers 1| — 2 inches across vertically; sepals and 

 petals similar and equal, lanceolate, acute, yellow, sometimes with a 

 brownish hue ; lip infundibuliform, obscurely three-lobed, the side 



* The plate here quoted is confused by the introduction of parts of another plant 

 belonging to a different species. 



+ Bot. Reg. 1840, sub. t. 49. 



X See ilr. Rolfe's note in the Gardeners' Chronicle, loc. cit. supra. 



