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37. LISSOCHILUS roseus. 
(Dendrobium roseum, Swartz, in Persoon synops. p. 523.) 
L. roseus ; foliis lato-lanceolatis erectis plicatis, scapo squamis lanceolatis 
acutis membranaceis distantibus vaginato, racemo denso oblongo, brac- 
teis ovatis acuminatis ovario brevioribus, sepalis spathulatis acutis con- 
cavis reflexis, petalis oblongis apiculatis, labelli trilobi lobis rotundatis 
intermedio emarginato cum mucrone, disco lamellis tribus undulatis 
serrulatis tuberculo parvo utrinque. 
A very remarkable terrestrial Orchidaceous plant, im- 
ported by Sigismund Rucker, Esq. from Sierra Leone. It 
has large plaited leaves, and rich rose-coloured flowers in a 
close raceme at the end of a scape between three and four feet 
high. . Although the other species of the genus have flowers 
in which yellow is the predominant colour, this has scarcely 
any trace of it except in the middle of the lip. We shall take 
an early opportunity of figuring it. 
38. DENDROBIUM Ruckeri. 
D. Ruckeri ; caulibus teretibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis planis, flo- 
ribus gemellis, sepalis patulis obtusiusculis convexis margine reflexis. 
lateralibus subtriangularibus, labelli trilobi lobis rotundatis intermedio 
undulato axi elevata villosa. 
A Manilla (?) plant, which has lately flowered with Mr. 
Rucker. It is sweet-scented, handsome, and distinguished 
by its clear yellow nankin-coloured flowers, the lip of which 
is a little stained with rose-colour. 
39. CLOWESIA rosea. 
We have lately received from the Rev. John Clowes, a 
most zealous cultivator of Orchidaceous plants, specimens of 
a Brazilian species w r ith the habit of a Catasetum, but with a 
structure quite different from that of any genus yet described. 
Its flowers have the chin of the Maxillaridous division, but 
they differ entirely from all the genera belonging to it in the 
peculiar structure of the pollen-masses and of the petals. 
To these points, however, we do not now advert more particu- 
larly, because we hope soon to have the opportunity of pub- 
lishing a figure of the plant. The technical characters by 
which it is to be recognized by Botanists are the following. 
Clowesia. Flos subglobosus, patulus. Sepala sub-aequalia ; lateralia paulo 
D . — 1843: e 
