Plate 176. 



GRAMMATOPHYLLUM ELLISII 



Mr. Ellis's Orammatophjllum. 



Ocn. Char. Sejmla explanata, lanceolata, aequalia. Petala majora, paulo difformia, caruosa 



ex 



planata. Lahollinn posticum, 3-partitum, lamellatum, circa columnara convolutmn. Cuiiunna 

 tera, carnosa, antice caualiculata. PolUnia 8, caudiculis 4 elasticis. HerlDae epqjhjtce, rhizomate 



apter 



pseudobulbifero. Lindl. 



GRAMMATOPHYLLUM ElUsU ; psGudobulbis aiigulatis clavato-fusiformibus polyphyllis, foliis lato 



loratis 



■acemo 



bus gibbosis, petalis duplo brevioribus oblongis obtusis erectis apice revolutis, Libol o pclaiis 



medio 



med 



n 



tuberculo pedicellato cristata. Lindl. 



GiiAMMATOPHYLLCJM Ellisii. Lindl. ms. Bot. Mag. t. 5179 



This fine plant blossomed for tlie first time in the stove of its introducer tlie Lcn. 

 AVilliam Ellis, who, in a letter addressed to Dr. Lindley, from Hoddesdon ((lated Augusr 

 23rd, 1859), wrote as follows :-" Among the plants which I brought from ^^^ 

 was a large square-bulbed plant, which I found growing on a branch of a lee a^ ^^^^^ 

 the size of a man's leg, and stretching over a river at about twenty-five feet a o^ 

 water. The roots were abundant, but short, white, fleshy, and «i^^tted togctlici, a ^^^^^^^ 

 larger than the roots of AnselUa Africana. The bulbs 



aii uie roots oi Jiimeuia Jijrwuiut,. aiav. ^-^ — - . , 



- and a quarter inches sqnare, but last year it made a bulb ^^"^''^''/Jl'^j^^^.^ ^^ 



and nearly two inches wide on each of the four sides. The leaves, of w ic i < ^ 





bulb 



^^ o.. .. , ,u.u, are one and a half to two feet long, about the size^ "^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 - ed as those of Angmcum sesquipedale, and less fleshy than ^'^^^^ ^.^^ '^^ ,^ ^^^,1 

 The flower-spike comes up with the young growth, is about two tee in ^^^^b^_^,^ ^^ 

 bears between thirty and forty flowers. Mrs. Ellis has made a colome .^ .^ 



some of the flowers, and a sketch of the whole plant. i he spec i ^^^jp^vini: 



^Ir. Kllis' stove w^ere communicated to Dr. Lindley, and drew from mm 



emarks 



a 



two luay 



n^u ^ . ^^• A f^ r.mihklhnn that the tvio n 



Ihe genus Grammatophyllum is so nearly allied to o^wfc/ ^^^^^ 



\uu. 1.. .,„... . . / ^ rr.. ■.•^.„ i,.„....ov first, in the presence oi ^ 



possibly be united hereafter. They differ, however, fii 



