GALEANDRA BAUERI. 
Class. 
GYNANDRIA. 
(Bauer's Casque-Wort.) 
Natural Order. 
ORCHID ACEiE. 
Order. 
MONANDRIA. 
Generic Character. — Perianth spreading or con- 
nivent. Sepals petaloid. Lip funnel-shaped, spurred, 
sessile, and without fringe on its edges. Column erect, 
with membranous wings. Anthers casque-like. Pol- 
len-masses, two. Leaves plaited. Scape radical. 
Raceme terminal. 
Specific Character. — Stem simple. Leaves lanceo- 
late, three-nerved. Sepals five, linear-oblong, acute, 
of a green colour, mixed with brown. Lip large, 
notched round the edges, purple. 
This pretty Orchid is a native of various districts in Mexico, from whence it 
was first introduced some years ago'. There have been several varieties of this 
species collected, some of which are very inferior to the specimen figured. Although 
the flowers are not rich in colour, the plant possesses several excellencies — and not 
the least is its very prolonged blooming season ; the flowers begin to expand towards 
the close of summer, and continue opening in succession, if the temperature is 
favourable, until nearly Christmas. They are also produced in great abundance, 
with merely ordinary care and trouble ; and by continuing to flower so late in the 
season, the house is greatly enlivened at a time when flowers are generally becoming 
scarce. 
In cultivation it requires a high temperature, with abundance of moisture, when 
in active growth ; and of course to be kept rather cool and dry (like other Mexican 
species), when at rest. It grows freely, potted in rough fibrous pieces of heath 
mould, with a copious drainage of potsherds and charcoal, or even attached to a 
block of wood; and certainly deserves to be in every collection. The plant from 
which our drawing was made flowered in the splendid collection of Messrs. 
Loddiges last autumn. 
The generic name is derived from galea, a casque, and aner, anther. 
vol. xiv. — NO. CLIX. 
