While we are writing on this subject, we would also men- 
tion another most noble plant, specimens of which might cer- 
tainly be procured by any of our African merchants. "When 
Mr. Ansell was ill from the effects of the Niger expedition, 
at Fernando Po, he found in Clarence Cove, growing on the 
stems of the Oil Palm (Elais guineensis), an epiphyte with a 
slender jointed stem about two feet long, having at the upper 
end many stiff, plaited, lanceolate, 5-ribbed leaves, and a 
terminal panicle of flowers as large as those of Vanda Rox- 
burghii, with dark purple spots on a pale ground. Of that 
plant we possess a dried specimen, with one of the lower 
branches of the panicle in good preservation, and as it proves 
to be a new genus we take this opportunity of naming it after 
its discoverer 
ANSELLIA. 
Sepala oblonga, carnosa, «equi-patentiá, libera. Petala 
conformia, recta, patula, dupló latiora. Zabellum sessile, 
patulum, trilobum, bilamellatum, lobo medio. minore 
verrucoso. Columna elongata, marginata, basi utrinque 
auriculata. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, sessilia, 
basi contigua, duobus dorsalibus multo minoribus; glan- 
dula angusta utrinque acuminata. Caulis elongatus, 
teres, apice tantum foliosus. Folia plicata, coriacea. 
Panicula terminalis. 
Sp. 1. Ansellia africana. 
It appears that this genus must be referred to that set of 
Vandez of which Cymbidium must be taken as the type. In 
fact, it is very near that genus in technical characters, though 
extremely different in its manner of growth. The auricles 
at the base of the column, the four pollen-masses, and the 
very narrow gland fining away to each side will serve to dis- 
tinguish it. 
