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CLOWESIA rosea. 
Pink* flowered Clowesia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orchidace^e, § Vande^e. 
CLOWESIA. Supra miso. 39. Flos subglobosus, patulus. Sepala 
subsequalia ; lateraba paulo obliqua, in mention breve producta, basibus con- 
natis. Petala conformia, latiora, fimbriata. Labellum concavum, carnosum, 
cum labello continuum nec articulatum, obsolete trilobum, margine in fim- 
briam glandulosam laceram solutum, disco laeve. Columna semiteres, clavata, 
utrinque apice obtusa cornuta ; clinandrio alto carnoso serrato. Stigma : 
sinus transversalis. Pollinia 2, linearia, dorso sulcata, glandula subrotunda, 
caudicula membranacea clcpsydreeformi ! Caulis carnosus, foliosus. Sca- 
pus radicalis, multifiorus , 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) wc received it from Sion Gardens, bv 
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 
2J 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 
