284 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [SEPTEMBER, 1914, 
Sometimes in the angle formed by the junction ‘of an arm: with the trunk of 
a large naked tree, apparently without a fragment of bark adhering to the 
trunk, a bunch of moss, or a cluster of Orchids, or both mingled together, 
‘would be growing, apparently with great vigour, and often in full flower. 
More than one tall bare trunk, twelve or eighteen inches in diameter, and 
thirty feet high, stood surmounted, or surrounded, near its summit bya 
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(For the introduction of the remarkable Orchid, whose habitat is here described, ¥ 
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are indebted to the Rev. W. Ellis, missionary and historian of Madagascar, In who 
garden at Hcddesdon it flowered, for the first time in Europe, in the spring of 1857-) 
cluster of Angrecums, with their long, sword-shaped, fleshy leaves, or, 
what was more beautiful still, a fine specimen of some species of bird’s-nest 
fern. The contrast between the white. shining, barkless trunk, and thes? 
verdant clusters of plants on the top, was sometimes very striking» 
