GALEANDRA DEVONIANA. 
(duke of Devonshire’s galeandra.) 
. \ , Order. 
MONANDRIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ORCHID ACEiE 
Generic Character. — Perianth spreading, petals and sepals nearly equal, ascending. Labellum funnel- 
shaped, 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. — Plant epiphytal, caulescent. Stems erect, simple, terete, many-leaved. Leaves 
lanceolate, three-nerved. Racemes sessile, erect, many-flowered. Labellum ovate, obtuse, crenu- 
lated. Anthers crested, fleshy, roundish, 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 Eulophia 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 Cgrtopodium. 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 labellum. 
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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CLASS. 
GYNANDRIA. 
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