GALEANDEA. 



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same locality in which it was first discovered by Schomburgk, the 

 first named of whom sent living plants to the Eoyal Gardens at 

 Kew in 1851. It is occasionally imported from that locality along 

 with Gattleya superha and G. lahiata Eldorado. 



G. nivalis. 



Stems terete, 6—12 inches long, jointed at intervals of about an 

 inch, the internodes invested with a whitish membraneous sheath. 



Galeandra nivalis. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



Leaves linear, acute, 5 — 8 or more inches long. Racemes sliort, few- 

 flowered ; bracts linear, acuminate. Flowers 2 inches across vertically ; 

 sepals and petals similar and equal, narrowly oblong, acute, light olive- 

 green ; lip sub-orbicular, rolled over the column into a funnel-like tube 

 and prolonged at the base into a slender yellow-green spur, white with 



