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GRAMMANGIS. 



spotted with brown-purple; lip tliree-lobed, the side lobes coloured like 



the sepals and petals, the front lobe bright yellow with two keels on 



the disk, and the marginal area verrucose, 



Ansellia confusa. N. E. Br. in Lindenia, II. sub. t. 64. A. africana, Lindl. in 

 Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 30. Paxt. Mag. Bot. XIII. p. 241. Eegel's Gartenfl. III. t. 95. 

 Williams' Orch. Alb. Fill. t. 367. 



A. congoensis. 



Stems shorter and stouter than in An.^pllia africana. Leaves linear, 



acuminate, 12 — 15 inches long with three pale nerves. Racemes 



simple, many - floAvered. Flowers 1^ inch in diameter; sepals and 



petals similar and sub-equal, pale yellow spotted with chocolate-brown, 



the apical spots the larger, oval-oblong, acute ; the sepals keeled behind, 



the petals a little broader and not keeled ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes 



oblong, erect, light yellow heavily striped with red-brown on the inner 



side ; the intermediate lobe narrower than in A. africana, obovate with 



two longitudinal keels, bright yellow. Column clavate, yellowish. 



Ansellia congoensis, Eodigas in Illus. hort. XXXIII. p. 143 (1886). Lindenia, 

 IT. ])1. 64. 



A. gigantea. 



Stems, leaves and inflorescence as in AnseUia africana. Flowers 



smaller with narrower segments ; sepals and petals oblong, obtuse, pale 



yellow, or yellowish green with small red-brown spots on the basal half 



only ; lip three-lobed, deeper yellow than the other segments, the disk 



with three keels and not crisped at the margin. 



Ansellia gigantea, Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 627. Id. in Gard. Chron. IX. 

 (1878), p. 398. Saunders' Bef. Bot. II. t. 136. N. E. Brown in Lindenia, II. sub. 

 t. 64. A. africana natalensis. Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4965, fig. 3. 



A. nilotica. 



Stems, leaves and inflorescence as in Ansellia africana ; sepals and 

 petals narrowly oblong, canary-yellow heavily blotched with chocolate- 

 brown ; lip nearly as in A. gigantea, bright canary-yellow with three 

 keels on the disk and verrucose in front of them. 



Ansellia nilotica, N. E. Brown in Lindenia, II. sub. t. 64. A. africana nilotica, 

 Baker. 



GRAMMANGIS. 



Rchb. in Xen. Orcli. II. p. 17 (1862). Benth. ct Hook. Gen. Plant. III. p. 537. (excl. 

 sp. javanica). 



Among the orchids allied to Cymbidiura is the remarkable one 

 discovered and introduced many years ago by the Ilev. W. Ellis^ 

 from Madagascar, and v^hich Lindley referred to the Malayan genus 



