Tas. 6626. 
GLOBBA atRo-saNGuINEA: 
Native of Borneo. 
Nat. Ord. ScrramInex.—Tribe GLopBex. 
Genus Giroppa, Linn.; (Endl. Gen, Pl. p: 222.) 
GLoBBA atro-sanguirea; vaginis foliis subtus et inflorescentia pubescentibus, foliis 
ovato- v. elliptico-lanceolatis utringue acuminatis saturate viridibus, spica 
simplici erecta, bracteis inferioribus remotis oblongis convolutis superioribus 
coccineis ovatis explanatis patulis v. recurvis, ovario oblongo, calycis cylindracei 
infra medium 3-lobi tubo brevi lobis subulato-lanceolatis, corolle tubo gracili 
glabro calyce triplo longiore, lobis brevibus late ovatis acutis, labello oblongo 
basi 2-lobo Jobis rotundafis, anther alis profunde 2-fidis laciniis triangularibus 
acutis. 
G. atro-sanguinea, Teijsm. et Birnend. Plant. Nov. Hort. Bogor. no, 117. 
G. coccinea, Hort. (Gard: Chron. vol. xvi. p.23, in Report of Scientific Committeé 
of R. H. S.). 
Under G. Schomburgkii (Tab. 6298) will be found some 
remarks on the curious genus Globba, so little known under 
cultivation, though so common in tropical Asia and its 
islands. When it flowered, it was exhibited at the Scientific 
Committee of the Royal Horti¢ultural Society, and_ being 
supposed to be a new species, was named provisionally 
G. coccinea (see Gard. Chron. New Ser. vol. xvi. p. 23) ; itis 
however undoubtedly the G. atro-sanguinea of Messrs. 
Teijsmann and Binnendijk, described in 1863 from Bornean 
Specimens introduced into the noble gardens of Buitenzorg 
in Jaya. 
This beautiful plant was procured by Mr. Burbidge 
during his travels in Borneo (of which he has given us an 
excellent account in his “The Gardens of the Sun”), and 
was raised by his employers, Messrs. Veitch, who forwarded 
it to the Magazine for figuring in July of last year. 
Descr. Stem slender, strict, erect, two to three feet high. 
Leaves three to four inches long, sessile on the sheath, 
elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, dark green 
May lst, 1882. 
