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Plate 152. 



GALEANDRA DEVONIANA. 



Duke of BevomJiires Galeandra. 



Gen. Char. Perianthium patens^ sepalis petalisque subaequalibus ascendeiitibus. Lahelhrn iii- 



ecalcaratuni 



Column a 



erecta^ membranaceo-alata^ clinandrio declivi. PolUnia 2, postice excavata^ caudiciila brevi gliin- 



dulae brevi divergenti-bilobee adnata. — Herbae terrestres, 

 ternnirialihus , LindL 



/ 



Galeat^bra Devoniana ; caule erecto simplici tereti polyphylloj foliis lanceolatis 3-norviis, rnromo 



sessili erecfco multifloro, labelli lamina ovata obtusft erenulatu lamcllis 4 pone Lasin^ anflicrm 

 crista carnosa rotundata pubesceute. Lindl. 



Galeandra Devoniana. Schomh. in Lindl. Sert. Orcldd. tab. 37. 



One of the finest of South American Orchidece. It was first detected by Schoiubiirgk 

 on the Rio Negro, a river which discharges itself into tlic Amazon, and Mr. Spruce and 

 others have more recently met with it in the same locality. Schomburgk saw it grow- 

 ing (usually on the ground) five to six fe^ high, and in clusters or patches from ten to 

 twelve feet in circumference. It is still rare in collections, and is generally considered 

 difficult to manage, but with Mr. Rucker — who grows it in a pot in his East Indian 

 house — it thrives luxuriantly, and flowers splendidly twice a year. G. Siamjeana^ 

 from the same country, also likes a warm stove, but the other species prefer a cooler 

 situation. 



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Desck. Steiins uniform to the base (no pseudobulbs), clustered, three to five or six 

 feet high, scaly below, leafy above : leaves much sheathing at the base, linear-ensiform, 

 acuminated, striated, glabrous, membranaceous. Panicle terminal, with few but large 

 flowers; hrancJies and peduncles bracteated. Sepals and petals spreading and slightly 

 ascending, lanceolate, striated, darkish-purple, green at the margin and at the base 

 externally. Lip very large, projecting, white, tipped and streaked witli purple, broadly 

 obovate, obscurely three-lobed, the sides meeting so as to form a lax tube around tho 

 column, intermediate or spreading, deflexed, retuse : near the base within are four 

 lamellae. Column within the tube-like portion of the labr-llum, sli^'htly win^jcd at the 

 margin. Anther with a large, downy, erect crest. 



Fig. 1. Column. 2,Z. Polleu-masses : — ma <j n if <• d . 



