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are fleshy, and combined into a uniform 

 mass ; as the fruit of the juniper. 



GALE, SWEET. Myrica Gale. 



GALEA. The helmet or arched part of a 

 flower, always placed at the back, that is, 

 next to the axis. 



GALEANDRA. This was formerly recog- 

 nised as a distinct genus of orchids, but is 

 now referred to Eulophia by Dr. Blume. 

 The Mexican G. Batieri, frequently cul- 

 tivated by orchid growers, is epiphytal, 

 with cylindrical steins bearing several 

 lance-shaped nerved leaves, and beautiful 

 drooping racemes of yellow flowers, the 

 lip having parallel purple lines near the 

 apex, which has wavy margins. G. Devo- 

 niayia is another handsome species, with 

 large chocolate-coloured flowers, having 

 a funnel-shaped white lip marked with 

 pink lines. [A. A. B.] 



GALE ARIA. A genus of handsome 

 laurel-leaved bushes found in the Malay 

 Peninsula and Archipelago, referred by 

 some authors to the Stilaginacea?, and by 

 others to the Euphorbiacece ; from the 

 former of which it differs in the flowers 

 having petals, and from any genus in the 

 latter by its solitary and terminal, often 

 drooping flower-spikes, which are some- 

 times more than a foot long. The leaves 

 are accompanied by minute stipules ; and 

 the minute green flowers are dioecious, 

 the males with a five-parted calyx, five 

 concave petals, and ten free stamens ; the 

 females with similar calyx and corolla, and 

 an ovary crowned with three or five minute 

 stigmas. The fruits are rounded, fleshy, 

 about the size of a pea when only one cell is 

 perfected, larger and two or three-lobed 

 when two or three are perfected : each cell 

 containing one seed. The names Bennettia 

 and Cremostachys have been given to some 

 of these plants. [A. A. BJ 



GALEGA. A genus of smooth erect 

 perennial herbs of the leguminous family, 

 having pinnate leaves, arrow-headed sti- 

 pules, and long axillary racemes of pretty 

 lilac or white pea-flowers. The few known 

 species are found in the Mediterranean 

 region, and extend eastward to Persia. 

 They are nearly related to Ghicyrrhiza, but , 

 the pods are narrow and smooth, and con- 

 tain numerous seeds, while those of the 

 liquorice are broad, usually rough exter- i 

 nally, and one to four-seeded. The roots I 

 have a sweetish taste. The stems are fur- 

 | nished with unequally pinnate leaves made 

 I up of eight to ten pairs of ovate lance- 

 | shaped or linear leaflets. G. officinalis, the 

 Goat's Rue, was at one time in repute as a 

 I cordial in fevers and convulsions, but it 

 has long fallen into disuse. The generic 

 name, derived from the Greek signifying 

 milk, refers to its supposed property of 

 increasing the milk of animals which feed 

 upon the plants. [A. A.B.] 



GALEX1A. A genus of Tetragoniacece 

 consisting of herbs or shrubs from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, usually much branched; 

 hairy or papillose, with alternate or opposite 



entire fleshy leaves and sessile flowers, 

 generally cymose or paniculate. Calyx 

 deeply four or five-cleft, coloured within ; 

 corolla absent ; stamens eight or ten ; 

 ovary two to five-celled ; capsule woody or 

 corky, varying in shape according to the 

 number of cells in the ovary. [J. T. S.] 



GALEOBDOLON. The name of a section 

 of Lamium distinguished by having the 

 corolla tube obliquely annulate within, 

 contracted below, and dilated and subven- 

 tricose above the annulus, where it is also 

 somewhat recurved and lengthened out ; 

 and by the helmet being elongated and 

 narrowed at the base. The principal species, 

 Lamium Galeobdolon, our native Arch- 

 angel, is sometimes separated under the 

 name of G. luteum. [T. MJ 



GALEOGLOSSA. The name of certain 

 Perns, otherwise referred to Niphobolus. 



GALEOPSIS. A genus of labiates, called 

 Hemp-nettles, distinguished by their equal- 

 ly five-toothed calyx, by the two lower sta- 

 mens being longer than the other pair, by 

 the two-lipped corolla, of which the upper 

 lip is arched, the lower three-lobed, and by 

 the diverging anther-cells, which open lon- 

 gitudinally. The commonest species is G. 

 Tctrahit, an annual weed frequently met 

 with in cultivated ground. It grows to the 

 height of a foot or more, and is well marked 

 by its hispid stem, which is singularly 

 swollen beneath the joints, by the very 

 long rigid calyx teeth, and by the purple, 

 sometimes white, flowers. G. Ladanum 

 has the stems less hairy than the last, and 

 the stem is not swollen beneath the joints ; 

 it grows principally on a limestone or chalk 

 soil. G. versicolor approaches in habit to 

 G. Tetrahit, from which it may be distin- 

 guished by its more showy yellow flowers 

 having a blotch of purple on the lower lip ; 

 this is found in several parts of England, 

 but is most abundant in Scotland, espe- 

 cially in cultivated fields among the High- 

 lands. G. ochroleuca, with large pale yel- 

 low flowers without spots, grows in sandy 

 cornfields, but is rare. Prench, Galeope ; 

 German, Taube Nessel. [C. A. J.] 



GALEOTTIA. This name has been given 

 to an obscure Mexican orchid supposed to 

 be closely allied to Batemannia, but to 

 differ in having a large ovate gland and 

 short caudicle, Batemannia having no 

 caudicle. It has besides been applied to a 

 genus of AcanthacecB, which has also been 

 called Glockeria, and is related to Slenoste- 

 phamis, from which it differs in its bila- 

 biate corolla. This latter is a Mexican 

 shrub, with nutant crimson flowers in 

 terminal panicles. [T. M.] 



GALEWORTS. Lindley's name for the 



Myricacece. 



GALIACEiE. (Stellates, Madder-worts.) A 

 natural order of calycifloral dicotyledons 

 belonging to Lindley's cinchonal alliance 

 of epigynous Exogens. The order has been 

 sometimes called Stellatw from the star- 

 like arrangement of the leaves ; and by 

 many it is reckoned as a suborder of Bu- 



