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GALEANDRA DEVONIANA. 
(duke of Devonshire's galeandra.) 
class. okdrr. 
GYNANDRIA. * MONANDRIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ORCHIDACE^. 
Generic Character. — Perianth spreading, petals and sepals nearly equal, ascending. Lahellum fiinnel- 
sbaped, undivided, or obsoletely three-lobed, spurred, having four elevated lamellae in the inside. 
Column erect, membranaceously winged, the clinandrium bending downwards. Pollen-masses two. 
Specific Character. — P/gji^ epiphytal, caulescent. Stems erect, simple, terete, many-leaved. Leaves 
lanceolate, three-nerved. Racemes sessile, erect, many-flowered. Lahellum ovate, obtuse, crenu- 
lated. Anthers crested, fleshy, roundishj pubescent. 
Till very recently, the genus Galeandra was known to cultivators solely 
through the interesting, but by no means handsome, G. gracilis^ which once, also, 
bore the name of Eulojohia gracilis. The beautiful G. Baueri, which flowered last 
year in several collections, opened up quite a new feature in the group ; and the 
noble plant now figured, developed about the same time in Messrs- Loddiges' 
establishment, adds a yet finer species. 
G. devoniana has a habit somewhat intermediate between the caulescent 
Epidendra and Cyrtopodimn. It produces large round stems, terminated by 
elegant half-drooping foliage, from amongst which the lovely flowers are protruded 
in upright racemes. They are especially remarkable for the size and elegant mark- 
ings of their lahellum. 
M. Schomburgk, who has introduced several splendid epiphytes from British 
Guiana, was the discoverer of this very ornamental plant ; and from a communica- 
tion of this gentleman's inserted in the admirable " Sertum Orchidaceum " of Dr. 
Lindley, we extract the following particulars concerning our present subject. 
" During our peregrinations we have seen this plant nowhere else but at the 
banks of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon ; where, in the neighbourhood 
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