Refugium Botanicum.| [ November, 1872. 
TAB. 136. 
Tribe VANDEZX. 
Genus Ansexuia, Lindl. 
A. GIGANTEA, Hchb. f., v. Schlechtendal, Linnea, xx. 6738! Cespitosa, 
caulibus fusiformibus usque ultra pedalibus, distiche foliatis, 
foliis cuneato-ligulatis acutis seu obtuse acutis subtus nervis 
tribus validis, superne nitidis omnino planis, vaginis manifeste 
nervosis, pedunculo terminali (racemoso, vulgo) paniculato, 
inferne vaginis scariosis nervosis emaciatis vaginato, imis 
prope contiguis, superioribus distantibus, panicula nutante, 
bracteis squameformibus triangulis ovariis longipedicellatis 
multo brevioribus, sepalis ligulatis obtuse acutis, tepalis sub- 
eequalibus, labelli laciniis lateralibus obtusangulo-rhombeis 
antrorsis, lacinia media cuneato-obovata retusiuscula, carinis 
geminis a basi in discum lacinie antic, carina tertia inter- 
posita antice breviori, verrucis circumstantibus nullis, columna 
trigona incurva basi utrinque buccata, buccis sepius crenulatis, 
anthere processu terminali tumido ligulato obtuso.—A. africana, 
B. natalensis, Hook. Bot. Mag. 4965! A. gigantea, Rehb. f., 
Xenia, U. 18! Walp. Ann. 1. 784! Flores citrini maculis 
pallide brunneis in sepalis tepalisque. Labellum pulchre 
citrinum. 
b, orrrina, Rehb. f., Xenia, l.c. Omnino flaviflora, labio pulchre 
aurantiaco. 
When I named this plant, I suspected it might be the Cym- 
bidium giganteum, Sw. I do not think so now, though the question 
is not settled, since there appears to be now no type of the plant. 
My friend Dr. Theodor Fries informs me that nothing of the 
LInmodorum giganteum is left in Thunberg’s herbarium, and, as 
far as I know, the Cymbidium giganteum is not to be found in 
Swartz’s collection, nor did I see the Satyriwm giganteum, L., in 
the Linnean collection. I feel almost inclined to believe the 
plant described by those botanical patriarchs may have been some 
Issochilus ; but, even if it was rediscovered at Zeekoe-rivier, we 
have already the celebrated Welwitschian Lissochilus giganteus, so 
that the specific name could not be restored. So much for the 
antiquity. 
Our authentic plant was discovered August, 1841, at Port Natal, 
by Gueinzius, the same who was robbed of the discovery of the 
