Masdevallia Peristeria is a native of New Grenada, whence 
it was imported by Messrs. Veitch, to whom I am indebted 
for the plant here figured, which flowered in April. 
Descr. Stems tufted. Leaves erect, four to six inches 
long, by one to one and a quarter inches broad, linear- 
oblong, or oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, deep green, keeled at 
the back, very coriaceous, hardly contracted into a petiole 
above the sheaths. Scapes two to three inches long, stout, 
strict, erect, clothed with rather ventricose bracts. Ovary 
one-third of an inch long. Perianth four to five inches from 
tip to tip of the sepals, which are connate into a tube two- 
thirds of an inch long, and as much in diameter, nearly 
cylindric, but gibbous at the base, with six stout ribs, dirty 
yellowish white externally ; free portion of the sepals spread- 
ing, broadly triangular ovate, glabrous, suddenly contracted 
into stout, subulate yellow tails one and a half inches long, 
honey-yellow, spotted closely with red, margins slightly re- 
curved. Petals white, linear-oblong, clawed, oblique at the 
base, tip truncate and notched, Lip with a linear claw and 
oblong subacute limb, which is dilated in the middle and 
suddenly contracted beyond it, upper surface studded with 
amethystine papillx, tip recurved. Column white apiculate. 
Di. 
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Fig. 1, Side view of ovary, lip, petals and column; 2, front view of the 
satue; 3, limb of lip seen in front; 4, pollen :—all magnified. 
