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Twenty species of Galeandra at least are known at present, all natives of 
tropical America, and extending from Brazil to Mexico. 
Galeandra Claesii has very slender pseudobulbs, scarcely exceeding the size 
of a penholder, 10-18 inches long, cylindrical, hardly fusiform, slightly furrowed, 
with little distant, not inflated knots, pale bluish-green at first, then deep green, 
clothed with the grey remains of the dried old leaves. The leaves, 5-7 in 
number, are rather spreading, one-nerved, of a somewhat glaucous bluish-green, 
2, 1/2 to 3 inches long, and 1/3 inch broad, the upper ones decreasing suddenly 
in sheaths clothing the inferior part of the peduncle; they extend at their base 
in greyish membranous sheaths, rather densely dotted with purple, with a stout, 
plackish-purple longitudinal line on either side. Inflorescence g inches long, 
decidedly bent down, the upper part drooping, bearing towards it apex six 
flowers horizontally spreading, each of them provided with a bract 1 3/4 to 2 1/2 
inches long. The sepals and petals are minutely 5-nerved, green strongly washed 
with vinous purple; the sepals are about 11/6 inches, and the petals 1 inch 
long. The lip is obtuse, scarcely retuse at the apex, vinous purple towards 
its extremity, then paler, passing to yellowish green at the spur, with bands 
washed with somewhat vinous purple; the basal part of the disc bears three 
parallel crests, the middle one, hairy above, entends in a line of long whitish 
hairs; the spur is slender, acute and somewhat flexuous, 1 inch long. The 
column is about 1/3 inch long, very pale yellow, with some short purple 
streaks on the front side, which is covered with long whitish flexuose hairs, 
rather loose at the middle, more dense under the stigma, and chiefly at the 
base. Anther yellowish-orange, paler above, dark purple at the apex. 
This new species bears, in many of its characteristics, a considerable resem- 
blance to G. villosa Bars. Ropr. (Gen. et Sp. Orchid. nov., I, p. 85-1877); 
a native of Rio Negro, in the province of Amazonas. In this latter species, 
the pseudobulbs are of the same colouring, but considerably more swollen at 
their middle, and therefore more fusiform ; the leaves are less numerous, more 
erect, and several times longer; the inflorescence is less drooping, the flowers 
larger and of a rather different colour; the lip more distinctly emarginate at 
the apex, with a thick tuft of hairs, instead ofa single hairy line at the middle 
of the disc; the anther retuse at and the apex, instead of hardly truncate. 
G. Claesii was sent from Brazil to L’Horricu_rure INTERNATIONALE, of 
Brussels, by their skilful collector M. Fi. Crags, to whom it is properly 
dedicated. This charming novelty flowered in the houses of the same esta- 
blishment at the beginning of July last. 
A. CoGNIAUX. 
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