62 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). [ Ansellia. 
VII. ANSELLIA, Lindl. 
Sepals and petals subequal, free, spreading. Lip articulated to 
the foot of the column, 3-lobed ; side lobes erect, parallel ; front 
lobe oblong or rounded ; disc with 2 or 3 parallel keels. Column 
erect, equalling the side lobes of the lip, slightly curved, semiterete, 
with acute margins ; base produced into a very short broad concave 
or slightly 2-lobed foot ; anther-bed entire, scarcely prominent. 
Anther Eesical, operculate, incumbent, c Age nvex or crowned with an 
obtuse conical appendage, imperfectly 2-celled; pollinia 2 or 4, 
confluent in pairs, waxy, ovate, rounded, attached to a short broad 
stipes and gland. a e enh without bea 
Epiphytic herbs ; s tall, thickened or wi fusiform, leafy ; Bese 
distichous, elongate, sree te ed ; panicles terminal, more leas bra: hed ; 
: rs rather large, yellow, more or less blotched with, brown, pedicelled ; “laaae 
al An African genus of about 6 species, only one of which occurs within 
our lim 
1. A. gigantea an f. in Linnea, xx, wei psig once terete 
or somewhat sulcate, 1-1 ft. long, with 6 to many leaves on the 
upper part or nea r the apex and ‘numerous imbricate cnahewnous 
sheaths below ; cot es distichous, aR ER se elliptic-lanceolate, 
subacute, 4-1 ft. lo ong, $-1} in. broad, with 3-5 prominent veins ; 
panicle terminal, }—1 ft. long, usually with ieee branches, rarely 
reduced to a simple raceme, ‘with a few short sheaths below ; bracts 
triangular-ovate, subacute, 4 in. long ; pedicels slender, iE 1} in. 
blotched with light dusky brown ; sepals and petals spreading, 
oblong or elliptic-oblong a about $ in. long ; lip 3-lobed, rather 
shorter than the sepals ; si de lobes erect, oblong, obtuse ; front 
prominent cre keels; column clavate, } in. long. Reichb. f. 
i ; Bolus in Journ. Lin oc 185 ar 
citrina, Reichb. f. Xen. Orch. ii. 18 ; Saund. Ref. Bot. ii. t. 136. 
africana, var., Bolus, Ice. Orch. Austr -Afr iil. ¢. 29; Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 32. A. africana, var. natalensis, Hook. 
Bot. Mag. t. 4965, fig. 3. Cymbidium Sandersoni, Harv. Gen. S. 
Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 36 
Kananart Recion: Transvaal; Waterval Boven, in sipeieni, ated 
Wilms, 1387! near Barberton, 1800 it., Galpin, 1004; Avoca, 
Culver, 55. 
EasTERN REGI en aay and eager aig ft. 
Sanderson, 474! ke Tock 134 2 Delagoa Bay, Junod, 281! Stirrat, 2088 | 
near Lorenzo Marques, Bolus, 9786, and without ped locality, Mrs. id Saund 
and in Herb. Bolus, 6060. 
