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 Mantisia saltatoria. Opera-Girls. 



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MoNANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Anthera duplex. Filamentum lineare, longiffimum, apice 

 bilobatum, bafi utrinque appendiculatum. 



Obs. Infiorejcentla radkale a Globba praferlim d'lft'mguitur. 



Specific Name. 

 MANTISIA faltatoria*. 



This plant, of which we have thought it right to make a 

 diftincl: genus, has the fame affinity with Globba as Amomum 

 has with Zingiber, and is feparated on the ground of its 

 different infloiefcence. Sufficient generic characters may how- 

 ever be drawn from the flower itfelf ; for the di virion of the 

 Corolla is different from what takes place in the other fpecies of 

 Globba. In the latter the lacinite are nearly equal and 

 firnilar except the iabellum. In our plant the three external 

 lacini<e are diflimilar, the upper one being rounded into a kind 

 °f blmt fpur ; the two lower are fomewhat ear-fhaped. The 

 large yellow petal, the neclarmm of Linn.£us {'abellum ntc- 

 tarn of Swartz, who confiders the filament as the upper lip 

 °f the neclarium) is not, as in Globba marantina and racemofa, 

 bifid at both extremities, unlefs the long filiform appendices 

 aL the bafe of the filament are to be considered as a part of it. 



The fomewhat fimilar appendices in Amomum are regarded 

 by Mr. Brown as rudiments of the internal laciniae, two of 



* We do not know at prefent of any other fpecies which will come under this 

 genus. If our arguments for feparating it from Glob b 4 fhould be thought in- 

 efficient, it may be named and characterized Globba mantifera, filamento 

 a pice bilobo bafx bicornuto, fcapo radicali ramofo, bra&eis petaloideis. 



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