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grown is apparent from our illustration, which is an absolute fac simile of, 
photograph taken by him, and kindly forwarded to us, together with several 
others. The plant had forty-two expanded flowers when the photograph 
was taken. It is a.superb variety, of excellent form and substance, with 
blush sepals and petals, and a lip which is described as like port wine and 
plum mixed. This beautiful Cattleya is a great favourite at Arddarroch, 0 
much so that an importation of it was made direct, and the present example 
is only one of a series of equally well-grown specimens. 
GALEANDRA NIVALIS. 
When this pretty little Galeandra appeared, in 1882, in the collection of 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, nothing was known of its 
origin. Information now comes to hand on this point from two different 
sources, which it is desirable to place on record. The first is from Mr.f. 
S. Rand, of Para, who states that this species is a native of Rio Negro, and 
is very abundant just below Manads, growing in large tufts. ‘‘I have see 
them,” he writes, ‘‘ with at Jeast twenty flowering pseudobulbs. It is ont 
of the most beautiful Orchids which I know, and it keeps blooming from 
the old pseudobulbs for years. It was discovered by me.” The se 
communication is from Major-Gen. E. S. Berkeley, who states that his 
plants were brought home by a gentleman who collected them on the Rio 
Branco, a tributary of the Amazon, together with G. Devoniana and other 
Orchids. One of the plants is very distinct in habit, both from G. nivalis 
and G. Devoniana, yet the flower is very near the former, differing chiefly ™ 
having a larger flower and longer spur, and is apparently a variety of the 
same. 
It is thus very interesting to be able to clear up the habitat of this 
plant. It appears to me to be very near G. Descagnolleana, Rchb. f, (ih 
which may be a form of the same. The . 
to the New Granadan G. dives, Rchb. f. and Warscew., which again isn 
G. Baueri, Lindl., from Guiana (not the Mexican of that name, which ® 
G. Batemanii, Rolfe). 
the tributaries of the 
new ones from Brazil. 
Interesting little genus, and additional material would be welcome. 
Galeandra nivalis, Hort., Gard. Chron., 1882, i. pp. 536, 537, fig. 85, 2a, 1892 _ oe 
fig. 70 5 Ul. Hort., xxxiii., p. 63, t. 555. a 
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