remarkable for having their petals and the end of the lip 

 broken up at the margin into numerous delicate glandular 

 fringes, which give them a very rich and beautiful appearance. 



As a genus Clowesia is perfectly distinct from every thing 

 previously described. Its flowers being extended a little into 

 a chin in front, suggest its belonging to the Maxillaridous 

 division ; but its whole habit and the singular apparatus of its 

 pollen-masses oppose such an arrangement. The latter 

 organs rest on a broad viscid gland like that of a Catasetum, 

 but the caudicula, or part that connects the gland and pollen- 

 masses, is broad, thin, and contracted in the middle so as to 

 resemble an hour-glass ; but whether that is the usual struc- 

 ture, or as we suspect merely consequent upon the separation 

 of the caudicula from the anther-bed, we have not had an 

 opportunity of ascertaining. Upon the whole it is probable 

 that Clowesia must stand in the same division as Catasetum. 



Fig. 1. represents the lip seen from above; 2. the column; 

 3. the pollen apparatus seen in front, and 4. the same behind. 



