Sir William Hooker, who received from Syon, in 1852, specimens of the beautiful 

 Galeandra figured in the accompanying Plate, which he published as a yellow-flowered 

 variety of G. JSaueri, a species with which it has little or no affinity. It is, in reahtv 

 the G. dives of Keichenbach, and was brought to this country (where, alas, it does not 

 exist now !) by Warszewicz, who discovered it in New Granada. It no doubt disap- 

 peared—like the Mexican G. Baueri {X) — through being kept too warm. I do not 

 think the latter has ever been discovered except in Mexico proper; and, if so Dr 



Lindley's Cayenne plant must be, as indeed I do not doubt it is, a totally different 

 thing. 



Descr. Epiphytal ] Pseudolmlhous stems elongated, a foot or more long, narrow, 

 almost cylindrical, clustered, bearing several lanceolate, submembranaceous, sharply- 

 acuminated, almost erect leaves, with three principal and some lesser nerves, dark green 

 above, paler and slightly glaucous beneath. From the apex of the elongated stem-like 

 pseudobulb the short peduncle appears, with its veiy drooping raceme of full yellow 

 fioimrs, ten to fourteen upon the rachis. Bracteas among the flowers, small, subulato- 



membranaceous, larger on the peduncle ; sepals and petals very patent, at length re- 

 flexed, lanceolate, nearly equal in size and shape. Lip infundibuliform (not unlike the 

 large spurred sepal of Impatiensl very deep yellow at the base, paler at the extremity, 

 and there marked with dotted blood-coloured lines; obscurely three-lobed, the side-lobes 

 involute, and lapping one over the other, the middle lobe obtuse or retuse, much wa^ ed 

 at the margin, mucronate and recurved at the point: the base of the lip runs out into 

 a long nearly straight spur or tail, longer than the ovary. Column quite concealed 

 within the lip, elongated, semiterete. Anther helmet-shaped, with a recurved point. 



Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column and anther : — magnified 



