GALE^NDRA. / 



lobes rolled over the column into a tube and produced into a long 



straight spur ; the front lobe spreading, much undulated at the margin, 



mucronate at the apex ; the tube deep yellow, the front lobe paler 



with red-purple lines. Column semi-terete, concealed within the tube." — 



Botanical Magazine. 



Galeaudra Baueri, Lindl. in Illus. Orch, PI. Gen. t. 8 (1832—38). Id. Gen. et 

 Sp. Orcli. p. 187. Bot. Mag. t. 4701 (floribus luteis). G. cristata, Lindl. in 

 Bot. Eeg. 1844, misc. No. 69. 



This is a very different species from that cultivated in gardens 



under the name of Galeandra Baueri. It was originally collected 



by Martin in French Guiana^, and on his specimen which is still 



preserved in the Lindleyan herbarium now located at Kew^ Dr. 



Lindley founded the genus^ dedicating the type species to Francis 



Bauer, a skilful microscopic draughtsman who prepared the drawings 



in Lindley's Illustrations quoted above^ and for many other botanical 



works published during the first half of the present century. It 



was first introduced into British gardens by Messrs. Loddiges in 



1840, but did not flower till four years later; we next find it 



flowering in the gardens of Syon House in 1853, on which occasion 



it was figured in the Botanical Magazine, and subsequently in our 



own houses; since then it seems to have disappeared from 



cultivation. 



G. Devoniana. 



Stems tufted, as thick as the little finger at the base, attenuated and 



leafy upwards, 18 — 24 or more inches high. Leaves sheathing at the 



base, lanceolate, acuminate, 5 — 7 inches long. Peduncles terminal, few- 



jflowered; bracts sheathing, linear, acuminate, pale brown. Flowers 3 — 4 



inches across vertically ; sepals and petals uniform, lanceolate, acute, 



brownish green, sometimes striated with light green ; lip large, obscurely 



three-lobed, the side lobes convolute over the column into a wide tube 



that is prodaced into a short deflexed spur, the tube white, spur green; 



the front lobe deflexed, sub-quadrate, with four shallow lamellae on its 



disk, white streaked with purple. Column narrowly winged, greenish 



spotted with purple. 



Galeandra Devoniana, Schomb. ex Lindl. Sert. Orch. t. 37 (1838). Schomb. 

 Reisen. IIL p. 912. Paxt. Mag. Bot. Fill, p. 145. Bot. Mag. t. 4610. Warner's 

 Sel. Orch. I. t. 37. Rclil). in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 649. Illus. hart. 1874, t, 176. 

 Lindenia, II. t. 80 (var. Delphina). 



A very handsome species that was first discovered by Schomburgk, 



who sent to Dr. Lindley the following particulars respecting it : — 



" During oi;r peregrinations we have seen this plant nowhere else 

 than on the banks of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon, 



