282 Mr.Roscor’s Remarks on Dr. Rorburgh’s Description, 4c. 
Sir Joseph Banks. The 5th, Globba pendula, is certainly a new. 
species in this country. The 6th, Radicalis, appears to have been 
sent to this country by Dr. Roxburgh, where it has flowered with 
Sir Abraham Hume at Wormleybury, and has been figured in 
Bot. Mag., No. 1320, under the name of Mantissa Saltatoria ; and 
by Andrews, Bot. Rep. 615, under that of Globba purpurea. If to 
these six species we add the Globba racemosa, figured in Exot. 
Bot. tab. 117, we shall, I presume, have all the species yet known 
of this very singular genus. 
One of the plants before mentioned, the Globba radicalis, dif- 
fers from the rest of the genus in the manner of its inflorescence, 
which is radical, and not terminal; a circumstance which has 
induced Dr. Sims to consider it as a distinct genus. This diver- 
sity, however, is found to be supported by others not less deci- 
sive, and which he has also noticed, arising as well from the laci- 
nie of the corolla, as from the large petal-like bractes placed at 
each division of the scape; but the part which appears to me to 
be the most conclusive, is found in the two long filiform appen- 
dages at the base (or, according to Andrews, the middle) of the 
filament, which are not met with as far as my inquiries extend in 
any true species of Globba, and which, upon the principles laid 
down in my former arrangement, must be allowed to be sufficient 
to characterize this as a distinct genus. 
I have thus, perhaps at too great length, endeavoured to lay 
before you, not only the observations suggested to me by the peru- 
sal of Dr. Roxburgh's valuable Paper, but also such remarks as 
have occurred to me on the subject since m ny former communica- 
tion to the Society. 
lam, &c. 
Allerton, W. R. 
6th Jan. 1814. 
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