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I t / R . J i A H K E K S P E R I S T E I I T A .
T n t B u s : VANDE^.—LINDLEV.
P E R I S T E R I A . — / I O F I A ^ , - in Boi. Mm/. 3116. Lindi. Gai. et Sp. Orch. IGO. Bof. Reg. 1953.
P C R I A X T H I I M T globosum, Siupe semi-cluusuni. Sopala bas\ sub-connata,
c o n c a v a , basi laboilo c o n n a t a . Potala conformia, paul o minora. Labellnni crectiini,
m e d i o a r t iculatum ; dimidi o super ior e obovato, truncate, medi o ¡lulvinato, inferiore
b i l o b o columna continuo. Colunma erecla seiniteres, basi dilalatà. Antliera
e c r i s t a t a , bilocnlaris. Pollinia 2, postico fissa, gianduia sessiU imdà rostellum
i n v o l v e n t e . — H e r b a - Americana?, snbterrestrcs, pseudo-bulbosa-, inter maximas
o r d i n i s . Folia plnra, plicata. Scapi vaginati, radicale«, multiilori, sàjpiu.s pendidi.
F l o r e s speciosi.
Pcristeria Barkcri ; pseudo-bui bis oralis, profundi: sidcalis, 3-1 phyllis, scapis pendulis iiuiititioris
foliis subitqualibus ; tìoribus caraosis ferò clausis -, sepalis petalisque subariualibus concavis obtusis, labelii
M-ilobi lobis latendibus intcgris erectìs, intermedio angiistiore basi calloso : coluninà apterii Icvitcr pubescente.
Habitat in Mexico, prop e Xalapnm. Ross.
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PSBVDO-BULBS eenj large, ovate, deeply furrowed, bearing from two to four lauceoUite, avute,
renj much jdica ted, slightlg coriaceous. LEAVES, which are from afoot and a half to two feet or
more in length. From the ba.<ie of the. pmido-hul.i»t issue one or more stout SCAPES, which are
pendulous, from one to two feet hug. near I¡/ covered with the »lenibranoceons scales for about
one-fourth of their length, and then changing into a manij-Jiowcred RACESIE, on which the flowers
arc. loose!g scattered. FLO WEIIS sub-globose, fleshy, rather shorter than their FED UNCLES. SUP A LS
and PETALS nearly equal, concave, obtuse, of an uniform yellowish-orange colour, so slightly
e.i^panded as almost to conceal the lip. LIP deeply three-lobed, articulated with the elongated base
of the column, of a rich orange colour on its inner side, spotted with red; its two lateral lobes are
of a broadly ovate form, with tlunr margin entire, and are separated at their base by an almost
square callosity ; the intermediate lobe is longer and narrower than the lateral one.^, obscurely twolobed,
convex on its outer face, but with its margins turned inward, so as to give it a somewhat
irucullate appearance. COLUHN about the length of the upper sepal, slightly hairy, destitute of
Wiycs.
T i n s fine Peristeria was discovered in one of those diirk ravines, with wliicli the neighbourhood of
Xalapa abounds, by a Mr. JOHN Ross, who has lately been ransacking the Mexican Flora, in the service
of G. BAIIKEII of Birmingham, to whose noble collection of Orchidaceai he has succeeded in adding
many new and valuable species:—among which that now represented is not the least striking. It was
• So called from «piorifju " n rfo«," to which bird the ci
a close rcscmhtinco.
n of Uic original spccics, with it ct wings and bcak-iikc antlier, U
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