SEPTEMBER, 1914.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 273 
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32 AMMANGIS ELLISII. 
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HE annexed figure represents, on a much reduced scale, a plant of this 
striking Madagascar Orchid, which flowered at Kew some time ago. 
The species is one of the introductions of the Rev. W. Ellis, and was 
figured and described in the Botanical Magazine (t. 5179) under the name of 
Grammatophyllum Ellisii, Lindl., in 1860, though Reichenbach afterwards. 
Fig. 32. GRAMMANGIS ELLISII. 
made a new genus of it, as Grammangis Ellisii. It flowered in Mr. Ellis’ 
collection at Hoddesdon in August, 1859, when the discoverer wrote to 
Lindley as follows: ‘‘ Among the plants which I brought from Madagascar 
was a large-bulbed plant exactly like Anguloa Clowesii, only the bulbs were 
quare instead of round. I found it growing on a branch of a tree abont 
