45 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (FEBRUARY, 1923-_ 
GALBANDRA- SPECIES. 
ALEANDRA BATEMANII was introduced by Mr. Barker, of 7 
Birmingham, through his collector Ross, who met with it at a place 
called Kisatipa, ten leagues from Melacatapec, growing at the upper end of — 
a dry ravine, terminating half-way up the mountains in a south-west 
aspect. Ross stated that the mountains surrounding this ravine, that is on 
the north-east side, were covered with a great variety of Orchidez, whilst 
on the south side of the ravine there were none to be found. G. Batemanii 
was subsequently sent from Southern Mexico to the Horticultural Society 
of London by Hartweg. This plant had been cultivated for more than 
half a century under the name Galeandra Baueri, an error that originated 
in Bateman mistaking the Mexican plant discovered by Ross for the same — 
species as that collected by Martin in French Guiana, a locality 1000 miles 
away. The pseudobulbs are variable, 4-6 inches long, and prolonged at 
the apex into a deciduous leafy stem. Raceme terminal, many-flowered. 
Individual flowers 2} inches long; sepals and petals buff-yellow, or green- 
tinted with brown, lip large, sub-orbicular, with a deep cleft in the anterior 
margin, the basal half rolled over the column into a tube and _ prolonged 
below into a funnel-shaped spur, usually light yellow, the apical half rose- 
purple bordered with white. 
G. Baueri was originally collected by Martin in French Guiana, his 
specimen being the one on which Lindley founded the genus, dedicating 
_ the type species to Francis Bauer, a skilful draughtsman. G. Baueri was 
first introduced by Messrs. Loddiges in 1840, but did not flower in England 
until 1844. It has clustered stems, sub-cylindric or fusiform, 15-20 inches 
long. Raceme terminal, drooping and many-flowered. Flower 1}-2 inches 
across vertically, sepals and petals yellow, sometimes with a brownish hue, 
tube of lip deep yellow, front lobe of same paler and with red-purple lines. 
G. Devoniana was first discovered by Schomburgk, who remarked: 
‘* During our peregrinations we have seen this plant nowhere else than on 
the banks of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon, where in the 
neighbourhood of Barcellos we found it growing in large clusters on the 
trees which lined the river, or even on the ground where the soil consisted 
of vegetable mould. It was so luxuriant in growth that some of the large 
clusters of stems which sprouted from a common root were from 10-12 feet 
in circumference. The stems are often from 5-6 feet high: at the lower 
part almost of a purple appearance but changing into green higher up. As 
the flower is not only larger than the generality of its tribe, but handsome, 
I availed myself of the opportunity of naming it in honour of the Duke of 
Devonshire, one of the most successful of this, one of the most interesting 
tribes a ; mo 10cotyledor plants.’ It was afterwards found by the 
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