MaspevaLiia PerisTenia. 
his much like this, but, since no specimen was added, I, of course, never named it. The 
tails of the perigone, however, are represented as green, and the flower is much smaller.” 
This description agrees well with the appearance of a small variety now in cultivation in 
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, Dublin, a specimen of which has been kindly 
sent to me by Mr. F. W. Moore for examination, with the information that the plant 
had been named for him by Professor Reichenbach Masdevallia Peristeria vay. minor. 
The locality first mentioned by Consul Lehmann in the following note is, he informs 
me, the habitat whence plants of AZ. Peristeria were first imported to Europe. The 
second locality mentioned is the habitat of the plant now known in cultivation, to which 
he refers as “ A peculiar variety.” 
Masdevallia Peristeria Rehb. f. grows on trees in park-like woods near Caldas, near 
Medellin, and also about Carolina in the department of Antioquia, at an elevation of 
1,800 to 2,200 métres (5,850 to 7,150 feet). A peculiar variety grows about Pususquar, 
on the road from Tuquerres to Barbacoas, in the southern part of the department of the 
Cauca, at an elevation of 1,600 métres (5,200 feet). 
The plant grows most commonly near the ground on the trunks of trees, chiefly oaks, 
in open woods or by the river-sides, where a free circulation of air takes place. It 
attains its largest development when growing on the decayed trunks of oak-trees lying 
on the ground. Its appearance is confined to small areas, but wherever it is to be 
found it grows in great abundance. In some localities, favourable to the requirements 
of the plants, fully one half of the flowers produce seed-pods, while in less congenial 
localities seed-pods are very rarely to be met with. 
In Antioquia AZ. Peristeria flowers from October to December, and in the Cauea in 
January and February. 
F. C. Lenmany. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petals, lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—3, 
lip ;—3a, apex of lip ; all enlarged ;—3b, base of lip showing nectaries, much enlarged ;—4, column ;— 
4a, apex of column ; enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
