Monandrian Class usually called Scitaminea. 355 
_ Amomum Curcuma or Curcuma longa; and Jacquin 
(Hort. Vind. tom. 3. 7. ponite it as at least of the 
same genus. 
C. montana. Foliis ovatis acuminatis, bracteis lanceolatis apice 
coloratis. 
Fig. Roxb. Pl. Corom. v. 9. tab. 151. 
C. longa. Foliis ovato-lanceolatis, bracteis spatulatis. 
Amomum Curcuma. Jacq. 
Fig. Jacg. Hort. Vind. v. 3. tab. 4. 
Bot. Gard. Liverpool. 
The cuna rotunda of Willd. referred to the fig., in Hort. 
= Mal. v. 11. tab. 10. is a Kempferia, as above mentioned. 
GLOBBA. 
Anthera duplex. Filamentum lineare, incurvatum, longissi- 
mum, appendiculatum. Stylus laxus, filiformis, in medio an- 
there receptus. — incrassatam. Nectarium utrinque 
bifidum. 
= ae "Tin. xx. die 13. Z 
iie genus. in the whole order is more beautifully distinguished 
by its generic characters than Globba, of which one species only 
has been introduced, and that very recently, into this country. 
Its chief peculiarity consists in its anthera-bearing filament, which 
is of a very uncommon length, and terminates in an appendage 
resembling, in one species at least, two crescents or half-moons 
united to each other with the horns or points in opposite direc- 
tions. At the union of these is placed the double anthera sup- 
Honing the long filiform style, which frequently appears like a 
t. 2.22 loose 
