404. 



ORCHID -GROWERS MANUAL. 



G. CRISTATA, lAndl. — A desirable dwarf-growing species, about 8 inches 

 high, with the habit of O. Bevoniana. The flowers, which are produced in a 

 drooping raceme, are, however, much smaller, and of a pink and dark purple 

 colour ; they have the linear-lanceolate sepals and petals reflexed, and the lip 

 convolute, crisped at the edge and pubescent within, with two keels at the base ; 

 the spur is acuminate, horizontal, and the anther has a peculiar rhomboid purple 

 crest mounted on a white shaft. These flowers appear in July and August, and 

 last four or five weeks in perfection. — Oayenne. 



G. DEVONIANA, Lindl. — A beautiful epiphytal Orchid of slender habit, 

 growing aboiit 2 feet high — 5 to 6 feet in its native haunts. The stems are erect, 

 terete, and when young have many leaves, which are 

 lanceolate, sheathing, and three-nerved ; the blossoms, 

 which are produced in pendent racemes from the top 

 of the stems, have ascending lance-shaped sepals and 

 petals of a darkish purple with green margins ; the 

 lip is large, broadly obovate, the sides meeting over 

 the column, the front projected forward, white, the 

 apex thickly striped and pencilled with purple, the 

 disk bearing four lamellae, and the spur at the base 

 being green and recurved. It blooms at different 

 times of the year, and remains a long time in beauty. 

 — Rio Negro ; British Ouiana ; 11.8. of Golomhia. 



Fig. — Lindley, Sert. Orcli., t. 37 ; Bot. Mag.A. 4610 ; 

 Batem. Second Cent. Orcli.Pl.. 1. 152 ; Warner, Sel. Oreh. 

 PI., i. t. 37 ; Pascton, Mag. Bot., viii. p. 145, with tab. ; 

 L'lllust. BoH., t. 176; Mannd. But., v. t. 231; Lem. 

 Jard. FL, t. 195 ; Veiioh's Man. Oreh. PL, vs.. p. 8. 



G. DEVONIANA DELPHINA, Unden el Bodigas.— 

 A superior variety with brighter coloured flowers, 

 having the lip larger and covered with interrupted 

 rosy-purple lines. Named in honour of Madame 

 Rodigas, wife of the learned director of the Ecole 

 d'Horticulture de I'Etat in Ghent. — T enezweZo.. 



Fig. — Lindenia, ii.t. 80. 



GALEANDEA DEVONIANA. 



G. DIVES, Rchb.f. — A very pretty dwarf-growing epiphytal species, with 

 stout erect cylindrical stems, lanceolate acuminate leaves, and flowers produced 

 from the top of the stems in drooping racemes in August and September ; the 

 sepals and petals are sub-equal lanceolate acuminate, reddish-brown, and the lip 

 transversely rhomboid, retuse in front, creamy white, suffused with pink, and 

 produced into a large extinguisher-shaped spur behind. In the Botanical 

 Magazine figure referred here by Eeichenbach, the flowers are yellow, with the 

 front part of the funnel-shaped lip for about one-third its length marked by 

 sanguineous lines. — Tropical America : New Grenada. 



Fig. — But. Mag., t. 4701 (as Baueri). — f . Echb. 



G. FLAVEOLA, Bclib.f. — A distinct species introduced by the Horticulture 

 Internationale, and described as follows by the late Professor Eeichenbach :— 

 " It is strong in its habit ; the stem exceeds a span, and is rather thick towards 



