512 oechid-geower's manuax^. 



accl a column which is dilated and bears two large fleshy 

 wings. There are three or four species found in the Andes 

 of Colombia, and Central America. 



Culture. — These fine and stately plants will succeed in 

 either the East Indian or the Cattleya house, and, should be 

 potted in loam and leaf mould ; a good quantity of water is 

 necessary during their period of growth, after which they 

 mast have a good season of rest, and be kept nearly dry at 

 the roots, for if allowed to get wet during their resting season 

 they are apt to rot. They are propagated by dividing the 

 plants. 



P. CSrina, Lindley. — A fine species, having strong tfblong- 

 ovate dark green pseudobulbs three inches high, supporting 

 a pair of large coriaceous plicate leaves of the same colour. 

 The flower scape is short, pendulous, bearing a dense raceme 

 of nine or ten unspotted yellow flowers, which have the smell 

 of bruised juniper leaves, only more aromatic. It blooms in 

 June or July. — Central America. 



YlG.—Boi. Reg., t. 1953. 



P. elata, Hook. — A noble free-grow- 

 ing plant, with large broadly ovate 

 pseudobulbs, surmounted by three to 

 five light green plaited lance-shaped 

 leaves three to four feet high. The 

 flower scapes are erect, three to five 

 feet in height, bearing a long raceme 

 of white waxy almost globose flowers. 

 The central parts of each flower pre- 

 sent a very striking resemblance to the 

 figure of a dove, whence it is called in 

 the vernacular, JEl Spirito Santo. This 

 plant usually flowers in July, August, 

 and September, and continues bloom- 

 ing for two months when the growths 

 PERisTERiA ELATA. are stroug. — Panama. 



Tig.— Bot. Mag., t. 3116 ; Jennings, Orcli., t. 44. 



P. guttata, Knoxdes and Westc. — A curious species which 

 produces short pendent scapes bearing dense racemes of dull 



