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- 

 bur^rhii, 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, sequi-patentia, libera. Petala 

 conformia, recta, patula, duplo latiora. Lahelluyn 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 elongatusy 



tereSf apice tantum foliosus. Folia plicata, coriacea. 

 Panicula termiualis. 



Sp. 1. Ansellia africana. 



It appears that this genus must be referred to that set of 

 Vandeaj 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. 



