TAB. XIX.
GALEANDRxV BAUERl
MR. BAVER' S GAJLEANDRA.
TRIBUS: VANDEÍ E . — L I N D L E Y .
GALE A N DR A . — l ì l m . Orchid. PL 1. 8.—Ge/i. et Spc. cxii.
P E R I A N T H I U M patens, vel connivens, sepalis pctalisque asecnclentibus, liberis.
L a b e l h i m infundibuUforrae, cak-aratum, sessile intus lieve, margine mine iimbriato.
C o U i m n a erecta, uiembranaceo-alata, cSinandrio declivi. Anthera galea'formis,
c r i s t â recurvâ cum dorso elinandrii cardinatà. Pollinia 2 , posticè excavata, eaud
i c i i l à brevi, cum glanduh'i elongatâ basi divergenti-bilobà, articulatâ.— Herba*
t e r r e s t r e s vel epiphytoe, Ibliis plicatis scapi s radical ibus vel raeemis tenninalibus.
GALEANDHA Baiierì: pseiulo-bulbis attenuatìs vel fusiforniibus foliis lanceolatis aciitis, racemo terminali
pauci-vel-multitìoro foliis superante, scpalts petiilisque suba?qimlibus obovatis acutiusculis, labello
máximo antico convoluto emarginato apiculato indiviso miu-gine crenato, calcare ovario longiore.
Galeandra Baueri. Lindi. Iltus. Gè«, et Spe. l. c.
Habitat in Mexico.—Ross. In Guatenialà.—SKINNEH. In Guianà.—MARTIN.
O c s c r i i i i i m i .
PSEUDO-BULBS, cariahie in form, attenuated, orfmìj'orm, four or five inches long, bearing secentl
lanceolate, sharp-pointed plicated LEA VES, of about afoot in length. RACEME insuing from the apex
of the 2)seudo-bulbs, nodding, clothed at the baMmlh .weral imbricated striated BIIACTS, vian>j-flowered.
SEPALS and PETALS nearly equal, obovate, acute; all directed (as in Eulopkia) toioardn the uppciside
of the flower,—near hj m indi long, yclhwuh green, tinged with dull red at the hase. La-, nmch
larger than the other parts, concolnte, obtuse, emarginate, undivided, but crenated along all the border ;
white at the base outside, yellow on the inside, but, at the end, cf a deep and bright rose-colour :—near the
base, in the inside, are two derated lines. COLUMN, almost eoncealed hy the lip, dwarfish, erect, with a
membranous margin. AxTHElt, helmet-shaped.
T i n s rare Orclikkceoiis plant lins bfcn long known to English boUmists, altliougli, prior to t i t year
1S3S, it had never been imported in a living state. It was first diseovereil by MAIITIS, in Guiana; and
from specimens then collected, l lr. BAOEII prepared die admirable drawings which appear in Professor
Lindlcv's " TlkstratLons of flie Genera and Species of Orchideotls Plants." The species would appear to
be extremely rare in tlie scat of its original discovery, since none ol' the many botimical collectors who
have recentty visited that country have succeeded in obtaining even a solitars- specimen of it. Mr. COLLEY,
Mr. ILNXCUMAN, Mr. ScnoMEURGK, and othei-s, have ;dl successively sought it, but in vain; and when,
at length, Mr. P<AIIKEH was so fortunate as to obtain possession of a single plant, he was indebted for his
good fortune to the exertions of his collector, Mr. Boss, who rc-discovered the species in Uie neighbourhood
of Oaxaca, a distance of some thousand miles from tlie spot where it was formerly found!
• So calali liy Professor Liiidley, froin gnira, " a tiplmcr," arid a 111," in nlluaion to llie Wmer-Uke forni of Uro antW.
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