PL. CCCXXVIII. 
PERISTERIA LINDENI rotres. 
MESSRS LINDEN’S PERISTERIA. 
PERISTERIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. rr. 
Peristeria Lindeni. Dense caespi Pseudobulbi ovoideo-oblongi, 
magni. Folia lanceolata. Racemi penduli, 
concavae, 1.3 cm. longae. Pedicelli 5 cm. 
longi. Sepala elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, 2.5 cm. longa, 1.5 cm. lata, lateralia basi breviter connata. Petala similia, 
paullo minora. Labellum breviter unguiculatum, trilobum, 
breves, subsecundi, circa 7-flori. Bracteae lanceolato-oblongae, subobtusae, 
lobis lateralibus erectis subobliquis submembranaceis late 
oblongis subobtusis, mesochilio obovato-oblongo, epichilio articulato basi quadrato deinde subcordato-reniformi obtuso, 
apice reflexo, disco bicarinato. Columna brevis, bicruris, cruribus deflexis linearibus. 
Peristeria Lindeni ROLFE, supra. 
| Senus Peristeria, upon the well-known Dove Orchid, the El Espirito 
8 a Santo of the Spaniards, upon a specimen which had been sent to him 
from Liverpool, by Mrs Arnotp Harrison. Five years later came P. pendula 
Hoox., with its pendulous raceme, so different from the habit of the original 
species. In 1837 Dr Linptey described his P. cerina, and the following year came 
P. guttata Know.es and Wesrcorr, a species which no one appears to have 
collected again to the present day. Then came a great gap of over forty years 
during which no new Peristeria was described, but in 1883 P. ephippium Renz. r., 
appeared with Messrs F. Sanper and C°, of St. Albans. In 1887 P. laeta Reus. r., 
appeared in the Hamburgh Botanic Garden, from no one knows where, and in 
the following year P. Rossiana Reus. F., was described, from a specimen in the 
celebrated Italian collection of Signor H. J. Ross. Of these two, the origin seems 
to be unknown. Upwards of a year ago, P. aspersa Rotre was described and 
figured in the Lindenia (t. 267), from specimens collected by Bunceroru on the 
declivities of the Sierra de Marawaca, one of the most elevated mountains of 
the Parama chain, in Venezuela, and now Messrs Linpen have introduced and 
flowered yet another novelty, bringing the total number up to nine species. It is 
a native of Tropical America, and is dedicated to its introducers. 
P. Lindeni has a pair of strong linear decurved arms to the column, which 
at once fixes it as an ally of P. pendula Hoox., and P. ephippium Reus. ¥F. The 
former is a native of British Guiana, and is figured in the Botanical Magazine, 
t. 3479, a glance at which will show how distinct is the present species. The 
latter, which is a native of western South America, is only known from REIcHEN- 
BAcH’s description, from which, however, we learn that the shape of the epichile 
is altogether novel in the genus, being rhomboid and broader at its anterior 
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