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£ xl&sr ntegerrimis> inflorescentia “ mari ■*— 
There is a little Mexican shrub in our gardens, with the 
appearance of an Olive, the flowers of a Verbena, and the 
name of Daphne. Mr Hartweg found it in fruit only, and 
sent it to the Horticultural Garden, where it has flowered- 
and has proved to be a new genus of the Verhenaceous order! 
or which Mr. Bentham has framed the preceding technical 
character. Its nearest affinity seems to be with ^Egiphila. 
It hafnTbeX:” ’ greeDiSh ^ “ 1Me ^ 
99. PERISTERIA. 
Upon reconsidering the generic character of this genus 
and carefully studying its species, we find that it has not yet 
been defined with sufficient exactness, and that we ourselves 1 
atcly deedved by habit and a loose definition, have admitted 
into it a species which ought to have been excluded. The 
n y ama° n fi ?e h US '« ^ ° 0Te Plant ’ or Spirito Santo, of Pa^ 
nama, in which we find an erect scape; globose fleshy flowers- 
equal and regular sepals united at the base, but proiectin<’ 
foi wards with the chin usual in the Maxillaridous section • t 
lip continuous with the column, fleshy, arrow-headed at the 
base, distinctly articulated in the middle, and having its* epi 
fco"short A""!? be, V° Wn , 0V er *e face of the § colum P „: 
a column short, fleshy, and wingless ; and finally a pair of 
furrowed pollen-masses, sessile on a narrow gland P With 
these peculiarities, most of the Peristerias afterwards publilhed 
erect! exce P tthatthelr sca pes are pendulous, instead of being 
But I find that Peristeria Humboldti, figured at t 18 of 
sepaistands IT' res P ects di#ere " ‘ 1 ‘{ upper 
sepal stands a little apart, so as to give the flower somewhat 
themiddfe Us labellum has articulation in 
c middle and its pollen-masses are placed at the end of q 
XeZo wVfi\ term “ a -escent-sha^d gtnd 
broad winds' A HI, C mn 18 furnished with a pair of Ycry 
broad wings.^ All these circumstances induce us now to sena* 
te Penstena Humboldti under the name of Acineta in 
allusion to the immoveable jointless condition of the lin 
Peristeria Barken is a second species of this genus. 1 ’ 
