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ANGULOA Clowesii. 
Mr. Clowes's Anguloa. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcurpACEX. $ VANDER—MAXILLARIDE. 
ANGULOA, Supra t. 63. hujus voluminis. 
A. Clowesii (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844. misc. 29.) ; pedunculo unifloro radi- 
cali laxé squamato, flore carnoso resupinato, sepalis petalisque ovatis 
convexis conniventibus, labelli trilobi lobo medio piloso infundibulari 
bilabiato : labio altero emarginato altero tridentato, columná integrä. 
Among a lot of plants collected in Columbia by Linden 
in 1842, this fine thing was received by the Rev. J. Clowes of 
Broughton Hall near Manchester, with whom it flowered for 
the first time in Europe in March, 1844. The old plants 
had as many as five flower-scapes to a pseudo-bulb. Thus, 
by the enterprise of a few English gentlemen, who had the 
spirit to defray the cost of a collector in the rich country 
once known as the kingdom of New Granada, has one of the 
greatest botanical puzzles been at last obtained. Mr. Barker's 
species was figured last number, that before us is from Mr. 
Clowes, and a third species, with spotted flowers, still 
undescribed, has blossomed with Mr. Rucker, all of whom 
were the supporters of Mr. Linden's expedition. 
The two characters upon which the authors of the Flora 
Peruviana must be considered as having most relied for the 
distinction of their genus Anguloa, were the ‘‘ chrysalis- 
shaped" lip, and the two-horned column. 
But that rolled up form of the lip, to which the name 
chrysaloid was applied, is in reality common to the greater 
part of the Maxillaridous division; and the two horn-like 
processes which distinguish the column of the original 
Anguloa are altogether of too doubtful a nature to be relied 
on for generic distinction ; for they have no relation to such 
organs-as the wings of Oncidium, and it is by no means 
