GALEANDRA BAUERI. 
[PLaTe 267. ] 
Nate of French Guiana, Mexico, and Guatemala, 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs short, ovate, the older ones marked with numerous 
annular scars, indicating the attachment of foliage which has fallen away. Leaves 
several, lanceolate, with a long attenuate apex and a sheathing base, three-nerved, 
of a pale green colour. Scapes issuing from the cluster of leaves forming the new 
growth, furnished with large linear-lanceolate membranaceous sheathing bracts, and 
terminating in a decurved corymbose raceme shorter than the leaves, bearing some 
four or five flowers; the rachis of a reddish purple, and the pedicels green with 
small acute sheathing bracts. Flowers two and a half inches long, from the top of 
the reflexed sepals and petals to the front margin of the lip, very distinct in 
character from the prominence of the high-coloured lip, and from the backward 
direction of the sepals and_ petals; sepals linear-oblong, acute, directed backwards, 
nearly an inch long, of a pale yellowish olive colour varying to brownish green ; 
petals similar to the sepals in form and colour, as well as in their reflexed ition ; 
ip large, tubulose, with an extinguisher-shaped spur as long as the pedicel, of an 
orange-yellow colour, the convolute sides tinged and lightly veined above with rose, 
the lower side yellow like the spur, the anterior lobe, which is an inch and a half 
long and nearly as much across, rounded in front, deeply emarginate crenulate- 
denticulate, deep veiny purple-crimson as far back as the mouth of the tubulose 
base, below which it is yellow, within the throat purple, somewhat paler towards 
the edge, and the extreme margin white. Column erect, winged. 
Galeandra is a small genus of very ornamental Orchids, containing only about 
Six species, which are found wild in Tropical America, Brazil and Mexico. They 
deserve to be more generally grown than is now the case, as they are not difficult 
to cultivate, and although some of the species are small-flowered, and not very 
beautiful, they are still very interesting. ! 
Galeandra Baueri is by no means a new inmate of our Orchid houses, having : 
been introduced many years ago. ‘This plant used to be shown at Chiswick by 
‘J. H. Schréder, Esq., in the form of well-flowered specimens, which ti have never 
Seen equalled since. When grown in the manner indicated below, it makes _ 
excellent exhibition plant; and we hope, now that there has been a large importation 
“of it, to see our present cultivators succeed fully with it, and to equal, if not 
