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Peristeria (Supplement)

To the species described on p. 79, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

P. laeta (pleasing). fl. bright yellow, somewhat resembling those of P. cerina; sepals and petals spotted dark purple, the former oblong, the latter cuneate-rhomboid; lip with smaller spots than those on the sepals and petals; bracts ovate, triangular; raceme porrect, several-flowered. l. two or three, plicate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. Pseudo-bulbs pyriform. Origin unknown. 1887.

P. selligera (stool-bearing). fl. the same colour as those of P. pendula, the epichil being perhaps yellower; column armless; callus saddle-like, with deep, argute margins, covering the whole disk. Demerara, 1887. This is closely related to P. pendula.