356 Mr. Roscor's New Arrangement of the Plants of the 
loose thread appended from the top of the anthera-bearing fila- 
ment to the corolla below. The whole flower is of a bright yel- 
low, and the tube and corolla somewhat hirsute. 
G. marantina. Filamenti appendiculo bilunato, spicà foliis bre- 
viore, bracteis latè ellipticis calyce longioribus. 
Linn. Mant. 2. 170. Sm. Exot. Bot. v. 2. 85. t. 103. 
Colebrookea bulbifera. Donn. Hort. Cant. 1. 
Bot. Gard. Liverpool. Flowered in October 1805, 
but not freely. Itis often viviparous, producing 
bulbs instead of flowers. 
ADDITIONAL NOTE. 
Sıxce the foregoing paper was read to the Society it has been 
discovered by Dr. Smith, from a comparison of a living speci- 
men with that preserved in the Linnean Herbarium, that the 
plant lately introduced into this country under the name of Cole- 
brookea bulbifera is in fact the Globba marantina of Linnwus, 
and the only species of the genus which Linnzus professes to 
have seen. How this plant, which is truly scitamineous, with the 
double anthera supported by a single filament and embracing 
the style, could be referred by Linnzus to the class Diandria, 
whilst the rest of its congeners were included under Monandria, 
it is difficult to conceive; as well as to reconcile his description 
in other respects with the appearance of the plant, The most 
probable causes of such a series of errors are stated by Dr. 
Smith, Ezot. Bot. vol. 2. p. 85. tab. 103. In consequence of this 
discovery I have adopted the name of G/obba, which genus should 
be removed from Diandria to M onandria. 
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