Stangeria paradoxa. I possess a sketch, in colour, made by him. 
He reported, and sketched too, that the roots stood all upright, 
with their ends looking hke the nest of a bird. (It is very 
remarkable that, in our pots, the Angellias send, as far as I know, 
their roots in the earth, while other plants, as Hriopsis, very 
often turn them upright.) He found the plant on the upper 
branches of a tree ‘“‘ having leaves like an elm,” and says it is 
nearly scentless. Much later the plant was imported, living, to 
England. 
Sir Wiliam Hooker judged it a local variety of the Ansellia 
africana. I gladly admit it is very near it; and yet I believe 
there is a constant difference in the shape of the lateral laciniz 
of the lip, the keels, the surface or coating of warts on it, not 
to speak of the constant difference of colour. 
The genus Ansellia stands between Grammatophyllum and Cym- 
bidiwm. It differs considerably from the first in the pollen 
apparatus; less, and yet it appears sufficiently, from the last in 
the base of the lip. 
Ceespitose. Pseudobulbs fusiform, reaching a foot in length, 
with distichous leaves; leaves cuneate lgulate-acute or bluntly 
acute, with three strong nerves on the under side, quite even 
above; sheaths very nervous. Common flower-stalk terminal, with 
scariose nervous dry sheaths beneath, the under ones close one to 
another, the upper ones distant, racemose or panicled, generally 
nodding when fully developed, when not erect. Bracts triangular, 
exceedingly small, much shorter than the stalked ovaries. Sepals 
ligulate bluntly acute. T'epals nearly equal. Lip with obtuse- 
angled rhomboid lateral lacinta, with an antrorse anterior 
point; middle lacinte cuneate-obovate, nearly retuse; two keels 
from the base to the middle disk of the anterior laciniz, with a 
very short and small third keel between these two; no warts of any 
kind around the anterior part of these keels. Column trigonous, 
hent, with prominent, often crenulate cheeks at its base. Anther 
with a tumid blunt process. 
Materials :—M. Gueinzius’s original sketch, and seven speci- 
mens of his, and two garden specimens; inspection of fresh 
flowers of the normal plant and the variety from Consul Schiller’s 
garden. 
Tab. 186.—A plant. 1, side view of lip and column + ; 2, expanded 
lip +; 8, column, front view +; 4, 5, pollinia. 
