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Galeandra (To the species and varieties)

To the species and varieties described on pp. 41-2, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

G. d'Escagnolleana (Baron d'Escagnolle's). fl., sepals and petals brownish-ochre; lip white and sulphur, the median lobe marked with dark purple; spur funnel-shaped. l. narrow-lanceolate, acuminate. 1887. Allied to G. Baueri lutea. (I. H. ser. v. 22.) G. Devoniana Delphina. fl., sepals and petals reddish-brown, margined yellowish, lanceolate, acute; lip white, veined purple, large. Venezuela, 1887. A distinct variety, slenderer in all its parts than the type. (L. 80.) G. flaveola (yellowish). fl., sepals and petals yellowish, tinted sepia, lanceolate, acuminate; lip yellow, dotted hyaline-purple; apiculus of the anther having a black, anchor-like, terminal process; raceme eight-flowered. l. cuneate, linear, acuminate, 1/2in. broad, the uppermost ones smaller. Stem more than 9in. long. 1887.