GALEANDEA, 



where in the neighbourhood of Barcellos we found it growing in 

 large chisters on the trees which lined the river, sometimes on the 

 MaurUia aculeata, or even on the ground where the soil consisted of 

 vegetable mould. It was so luxuriant in growth that some of the 

 large clusters of stems which sprouted from a common root were from 

 10 — 12 feet in circumference. The stems were often from 5 — 6 feet 

 high ; at the lower part almost of a purple appearance but changing 

 into green higher up. As the flower is not only larger than the 



Galeandra Devoniana. 



generality of its tribe, but handsome, I availed myself of this 



opportunity of naming it in honour of the Duke of Devonshire, one 



of the most successful cultivators of this, one of the most interesting 



tribes among monocotyledonous plants." 



It was subsequently detected by the same energetic explorer in 



British Guiana, growing on the trunks of trees on the banks of 



the river Berbice; and afterwards by Spruce and Wallace in the 



