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PL. CCCXXXVIII. 
GRAMMANGIS BECISI- ReHs on 
REV. W. ELLIS’ GRAMMANGIS. 
GRAMMANGIS. Sepala subaequalia, posticum subfornicatum, lateralia patentia, libera v. basi brevissime 
in gibbum didymum connata, omnia carnosula. Petala multo breviora tenuioraque, lata, obliqua. Labellum basi 
columnae affixum, erectum, sepalis multo brevius; lobi laterales lati, erecti, medius brevis, subpatens; discus lamel- 
latus v. cristatus. Columna erecta, leviter incurva, bialata, apoda; clinandrium obliquum, incurvum. Anthera termi- 
nalis, opercularis, incumbens, valde convexa, dorso appendiculata, imperfecte bilocularis; pollinia 2, late subglobosa, 
sulcata, in anthera collateraliter contigua, anthera dehiscente glandulae latae squamiformi affixa. 
Herbae epiphyticae, validae, caule brevi in pseudobulbum oblongum v. fusiformem carnosum incrassato. Folia 
pauca, longa, coriacea, parum venosa. Scapi ad basin pseudobulbi longi, simplices. Racemus laxus, floribundus, 
floribus speciosis longe pedicellatis. Bracteae magnae. 
Species 2, Madagascarienses. 
Grammangis Rew. F. Xen. Orch., I, p. 17. — BENTH. et HooK. F., Gen. Plant., II], p. 537 (excl. sp. 
Javanica). 
Grammangis Ellisii, Pseudobulbi fusiformi-oblongi, angulati, polyphylli. Folia lorato-linearia, obtusa v. biden- 
tata, basi canaliculata. Scapi ad basin pseudobulbi laterales, recurvi; racemi multiflori. Bracteae ovato-v. oblongo- 
lanceolatae, acutae, 1 1/2-2 1/4 poll. longae. Sepala oblonga, subacuta, 1 1/2 poll. longa. Petala oblonga, subobtusa, 
g-I0 lin. longa, apice revoluta. Labellum petalis aequale, trilobum, lobis lateralibus erectis latis obtusis, lobo medio 
late triangulo apice revoluto, jugo medio elevato ultra isthmum subito dilatato dein obtuse tricuspidato, disco utrinque 
et fronte lamellato. Columna 1/2 poll. longa, anthera cristata. 
Grammangis Ellisii Rous. F. in Hamb. Gartenz., XVI (1860), p. 520. — Id. Xen. Orch., Il, p. 17. 
Grammatophyllum Ellisii LinpL., ex Hoox., Bot. Mag., LXXXVI (1860), t. 5179. — Fl. des Serres, 
t. 1488-9. — Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, IV, t. 147. — Orchidophile, 1886, p. 352, cum ic. — Reus. F. in 
Gard, Chron., 1878, pt. I, p. 333. — Id., 1880, pt. Il, p. 326 (var. Dayana RcuB. F.). 
he handsome Orchid figured in the annexed plate was originally intro- 
duced from Madagascar by the Rev. Witu1am Exuis, who made three 
visits to that island during the years 1853, 1854, and 1856, and 
sGsanndls embodied the results of his observations in a very interesting work, 
which was published in 1858. The traveller met with it growing on the branch 
of a tree which stretched over a river, and about 25 feet above the water. 
On his arrival home he placed it in his Orchid house, at Hoddesdon, where 
it flowered in April, 1859. A coloured drawing of the entire plant was sent 
to Dr. Linney, together with some of the flowers, and the former was soon 
afterwards published in the Botanical Magazine, as Grammatophyllum Ellisii 
LinpL., the author remarking that in some respects the plant corresponded 
with Grammatophyllum, while in others it approached Cymbidium, which genera 
might possibly be hereafter united. 
REICHENBACH at once separated the plant as a distinct genus, under the 
name of Grammangis, which afterwards he appears to have abandoned, as he 
twice reverted to the original name, and also described an additional Madagascar 
