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PERISTERIA Humboldti. 
Humboldt’s Peristeria. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orchidace/e, § Yandex. Div. Maxillaridas. 
PERISTERIA. Botanical Register, vol. 23. fol. 1953. 
P. Humboldti ; racemo elongato pendulo multifloro, calyce patulo, sepalis 
oblongis concavis obtusis, petalis rhombeis obtusis planis minoribus, 
labelli inflexi hypochilio carnoso oblongo concavo, metachilio bilobo 
laciniis erectis cuneatis carnosis margine inferiore valde incrassato medio 
appendice biloba carnosa divaricata utrinque bidentata aucto, epicbilio 
unguiculato canaliculato apice dilatato truncato, columna utrinque in 
marginem rotundatum alatum producta, stigmate et columnae dorso 
villosis, caudicula lineari, glandula lunata. 
Anguloa superba. Humboldt, Bonpland fy Kunth, nov. gen . fy sp. pi. 1. 343. 
t. 93. Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orch. p. 160. 
For this noble plant, which has a pendulous raceme a 
couple of feet long, we are indebted to John Wilmore, Esq., 
of Oldford, near Birmingham, who imported it from Porto 
Cabullo, in the province of Venezuela, about three years 
since. It flowered for the first time in March, 1842, and in 
April was exhibited to the Horticultural Society where it was 
distinguished by a silver medal. In many respects it has the 
habit of Peristeria Barkeri, but the leaves have longer foot- 
stalks. 
When the genus Peristeria was founded nobody suspected 
that the long sought Anguloa superba of Humboldt could 
belong to it ; still less did we imagine, when this noble spe- 
cies was sent from Birmingham, that it could be the very 
same. Nevertheless, upon attentively considering Hum- 
boldt’s figure, no doubt can be entertained of the fact; or that 
Anguloa superba is nothing more than this Peristeria with 
the raceme made to grow erect instead of pendulous. The 
plant of that great traveller is described as an inhabitant of 
April, 1843. 
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