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ANGULOA Clowesii. 

 Mr. Clowes s Anguloa. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDBIA. 

 Nat. Ord. OrCHIDACE^. § VaNDE^ MAXILLARIDiE. 



ANGULOA, Supra t. 63. hujus voluminis. 



A. Clowesii (Lindl. in Bot, Reg. 1844. misc. 29.); peduncnlo unifloro radi- 

 cali lax^ squamato, flore carnoso resupinato, sepalis petalisque ovatis 

 convexis conniventibus, labelli trilobi lobo medio piloso infundibulari 

 bilabiate : labio altero emarginato altero tridentato, columna integra. 



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 

 pari 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 



