Tan. O19. 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Exnuistt. 
Mr. Ellis’s Grammatophyllum. 
Nat. Ord. Orncurpacem.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5157.) 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM JZilisii; pseudobulbis angulatis clavato-fusiformibus poly- 
phyliis, foliis lato-loratis recurvis basi canaliculatis, racemo multifloro re- 
curvo, sepalis patentibus acutis lateralibus gibbosis, petalis duplo breviori- 
bus oblongis obtusis erectis apice revolutis, labello petalis aequali mobili 
basi sacculato trilobo jugo medio elevato ultra isthmum 3-lamellato lineis- 
que 3 elevatis arcuatis utrinque, lobo medio ovato acuto lateralibus brevibus 
subfalcatis, anthera tuberculo pedicellato cristata. Lindl. 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Ellisii. Lindl. MS. 
The Rev. William Ellis, in a letter addressed to Dr. Lindley, 
from Hoddesdon, dated August 23rd, 1859, writes :—‘* Among 
the plants which I brought from Madagascar was a large-bulbed 
plant, something like Anguloa Clowesiana, only the bulbs are 
square instead of being round. I found it growing on a branch 
of a tree about the size of a man’s leg, and stretching over a 
river at about twenty-five feet above the water. The roots were 
abundant, but short, white, fleshy, and matted together, a little 
larger than the roots of Anselia Africana. The bulbs were 
seven or eight inches long, and one and a quarter inch square, 
but last year it made a bulb eleven inches long and nearly two 
inches wide on each of the four sides. The leaves are one and 
a half to two feet long, about the size, but not so curved as 
those of Angrecum sesquipedale, and less fleshy than the A. ebur- 
neum, but, like all the Angreecums, growing on opposite sides of 
the crown of the bulb: each bulb has five or six leaves. The 
flower-spike, as in the case of the Anguloa, comes up with the 
young growth, and this year two young bulbs were accompanied 
by a flower-spike ; each one damped off, but the other reached 
about two feet in length, and at the end furthest from the bulb 
bore between thirty and forty flowers. The flowers began to | 
open three weeks ago, and as they opened slowly, I thought it 
would last longer, but on my return on Saturday from the coun- 
try I found the flowers fading rapidly. I have therefore cut the 
MAY Ist, 1860. 
