178 VISITS TO MADAGASCAR. CHAP. VII From a photograph by W. Ellis. ANGEiECUM SESQUIPEDADE AND NATIVE FF.RNP. tively soft and green. There were neither flowers nor flower-stalks on any of the plants growing in the rich vege table mould furnished by this old dead tree. The habits of the superbum were quite different. Of these the fleshy roots formed a sort of network at the base of the bulb. Durirjg the journey I occasionally noticed both I found one decayed tree lying on the ground almost over grown with grass and ferns, on the rotten trunk of which the A. sesquipedale was growing most luxuriantly. The roots which had penetrated the soft trunk of this dead tree were white and fleshy, while the leaves were longer and compara-