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CLOWESIA rosea. 

 Pink-flowered Clowesia. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 

 Nat. ord. Orchidace^e, § Vande^e. 



CLOWESIA. Supra misc. 39. Flos subglobosus, patulus. Sepala 

 subaequalia ; lateralia paulo obliqua, in mentum breve producta, basibus con- 

 natis. Petala conformia, latiora, fimbriata. Labellum concavum, carnosum, 

 cum labello continuum nee articulatum, obsolete trilobum, margine in fim- 

 briam glandulosam laceram solutum, disco lseve. Columna semiteres, clavata, 

 Utrinque apice obtusa cornuta ; clinandrio alto carnoso serrato. Stigma : 

 sinus trans versalis. Pollinia 2, linearia, dorso sulcata, glandula subrotunda, 

 caudicula membranacea clepsydraeformi ! Caulis carnosus, foliosus. Sea- 

 pus radicalis, mvltiflorus, erectus. 



Clowesia rosea. 



A short time since we gave some account of this beautiful 

 plant, which we then knew only from some flowers and a de- 

 scription furnished by a correspondent. Since then we have 

 had better means of examining it. 



It is a native of Brazil, and first flowered at Broughton 

 Hall, near Manchester, with the Rev. Mr. Clowes, a zealous 

 cultivator of Orchidacese, after whom it is named. At a later 

 period (March last) we received it from Sion Gardens, by 

 permission of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, and 

 from that plant the accompanying figure was taken. Up to 

 the present time we have heard of it nowhere else. 



It is very like a Catasetum in habit. The stems are from 

 2£ to 4 inches long, ovate, clothed with the remains of the 

 bases of leaves. The leaves, which I have not seen, are said 

 to be three, lanceolate, ovate, acuminate, and at the point 

 twisting a little to one side. The inflorescence proceeds from 

 the base of the stems (not apex as was formerly stated on the 

 authority of Mr. Clowes's gardener, who thought apex signi- 

 fied the bottom), and consists of five or six, probably more, 

 erect delicate white flowers tinged with pink. They are 



