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Globba sessiliflora. Sessile-flowered 



Globba. 



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Cldfs and Order. 



MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character, 



Anlhera duplex. Filamcntum lineare incurvatum, longiffimum, 

 apice appendiculatum. Stylus laxus, filiformis, in medio antherae 

 receptus. Stigma incraffatum. Ncftarium utrinque bifidum. 



Specific Cbaracler, 



GLOBBA fejfilifiora t appendiculo cordato, corollae laciniis 

 lateralibus longioribus, fpica fubverticillata, bra&eis lan- 

 ceolatis marcefcentibus. 



GLOBBA bulbifera. Roxb. in Afiai. Ref. v. 11. ? 



This appears to us to be an undefcribed fpecies of Globba 

 in the form of the flower very nearly refembling Globba 

 orixcnjis of Dr. Roxburgh, defcribed and figured in his 

 paper on the Scitamineze, publifhed in the eleventh volume of 

 the Afiatic Refearches ; from which however it fufficiently 

 differs, in its feflile flowers growing in an interrupted fpike 

 and in the greater length of the lateral laciniae of the corolla, 

 which in orixetijis are fhorter than the reft ; and in many 

 other refpefts. It may be the bulbifera of this author, but we 

 have not fufficient data to determine it to be the fame. It 

 certainly bears bulbs in the axils of the leaves and of the lower 

 bracteae. 



By comparing our prefent figure with that of Mantisia 

 faltatoria (No. 1320) the generic differences of the two plants 

 will be fufficiently evident : not only in the inflorefcencc, 

 which in the one is radical, in the other cauline, but in the 

 form and number of the laciniae of the corolla ; in the re- 

 markable filiform appendages at the bafe of the filament in 

 Mantisia, which are totally wanting in Globba, and in the 



form 



