1953 
* PERISTÉRIA cerina. 
Waxen Dove-flower. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ VANDEA. 
PERISTERIA, Hooker. Perianthium globosum. Sepala. basi sub» 
connata, concava, basi labello connata. Petala conformia, paulò minora. Las 
bellum erectum, medio articulatum ; dimidio superiore obovato, truncato, medio 
pulvinato, inferiore bilobo columnà continuo. Columna erecta, semiteres, basi 
magnà dilatatà. Anthera ecristata, bilocularis. Pollinia 2, postieċ fissa, 
glandulà sessili nudà rostellum involvente. Herba subterrestris, pseudo-bul- 
‘ bosa. Folia plura, plicata. Scapi vaginati, radicales, multiflori. Flores 
speciosi. Lindl. gen. et sp. Orch. p. 160. 
P. cerina; scapo brevi pendulo, racemo denso, labelli lobo medio margine 
crispo, columnä apterä. 
Pseudobulbus oblongus, vel ovatus, atro-viridis, 3-pollicaris, apice folia 
3-4 gerens, oblongo-lanceolata, plicata, basi vaginantia, pedalia et ultrà. 
Scapus brevis, vaginatus, pendulus, rigidus, racemo denso, 9-10-floro, secundo 
onustus. Sepala et petala colore et texturd cera lutescentis, immaculata, 
obtusa. Labellum trilobum, cum basi productá columne articulatum, ejusque 
faciei appressum ; lobis lateralibus ovatis, acutis, planis, intermedio abruptè 
inflexo, ovato, emarginato, margine crispo et croceo, ceterum colore sepalo- 
rum. Columna crassa, ovata, semiteres, aptera. Pollinia 2, biloba, in glan- 
dulam triangularem sessilia. Flores juniperum spirant. 
A new species of the curious genus Peristeria, imported 
from the Spanish Main by Mr. Knight of the King’s Road, 
in whose Nursery the accompanying figure was made in 
June last. 
It is allied to the P. pendula of the Botanical Magazine, 
from which it differs in its spotless, smaller flowers, in the 
crisped border of the middle lobe of the labellum, and espe- 
cially in the absence of wings from the column. This latter 
* From reprorepa a dove: the column in the original species, P. elata, 
resembles a dove hovering with expanded ee 
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