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ANSELLIA africana. 
African Ansellia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEEZ—$ VANDEA-BRASSIDE. (OrcHIDS, Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 173.) 
ANSELLIA, Lindl.—Sepala oblonga, carnosa, sequi-patentia, libera. 
Petala conformia, recta, patula, duplò latiora. Labellum sessile, patulum, 
trilobum, bilamellatum, lobo medio minore verrucoso. Columna elongata, 
marginata, basi utrinque auriculata. ,Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, ses- 
silia, basi contigua, duobus dorsalibus multo minoribus; glandula angusta 
utrinque acuminata, ——Caulis elongatus, teres, apice tantum foliosus. Folia 
plicata, coriacea.  Panicula terminalis.—Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, sub t. 12. 
A. africana, Lindl. 1. c. 
The noble plant now figured was spoken of by us in 1844 
in the following terms: 
* While we are writing on this subject, we would also 
mention another most noble plant, specimens of which might 
certainly 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.” 
This notice produced the desired effect, living specimens 
baving been received by the Rev. John Clowes, and by 
Messrs. Loddiges, from the latter of whom the specimen 
which supplied the accompanying drawing was exhibited to the 
Horticultural Society, in Regent Street, in February last. 
June, 1846. M 
