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. 
