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has the sepals and petals yellowish with few brown spots, and the lip white 

 spotted with purple, should be regarded as the type of the species.— JVetu 

 Orenada. 



Fig. — EeicJu'iibaahia, 2ud ser., 1. 1. 11. 



Stn. — P. Siindcrlana, 



P. SANDERIANA.— See Paphinia uugosa. 

 P. TIQRINA — See Houlletia tigrina. 



PERISTERIA, Hooker. 

 ( Tribe Vandeae, subtrihe Stanhopieae.) 

 A genus of remarkable species, one of whicli, F. elata, the Dove 

 plant, is a noble object, and one wMch ought to be in every collection. 

 These plants produce their flower scapes from the side of their large 

 pseudobiilbs, near the base, and have broad plicately venose leaves 

 contracted into a petiole below. The flowers are showy, with thick broad 

 sepals connivent into a globular form, a three-lobed lip with the lateral 

 lobes erect and the middle lobe concave and inflexed, and 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. 



Gulture. — 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 must 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. ASPERSA, Rolfe. — Another of the many discoveries of Mr. Bungeroth. 

 It has oblong-ovoid pseudobulbs, which measure about 4| inches in height, and 

 more than 7 inches in diameter ; scape short and dense, produced from the base 

 of the bulbs, semi-pendent, carrying ten or twelve flowers of a clear yellowish- 

 brown, densely freckled with reddish-brown; anterior lobe of the lip darker 

 bordered with maroon. — Vener.uela. 



Fig.— Zi.iideiiia, vi. t. 267. 



P. BARKERl — See Acineta Bakkeri. 



P. CERINA, Lindl. — A fine species, having strong oblong-ovate dark green 

 pseudobulbs 3 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 hare the smell of bruised juniper 

 leaves, but more aromatic. It blooms in June or July. — Central America. 



Fig.— Soti Beg;, tj 1953i 



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