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surpassing A. nutans, which I believe the Botanical Repository e co 
siders a ree of Renealmia. 
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$5. A nutans. Roscoe i in Trans. of Linn. Soc. 8. 346. 
Leaves lanceolar, short-petioled, smooth. Racemes compound. 
the lower pedicels being two or three-flowered, drooping. Lip broa 
three-lobed, the lateral incurved into a tube; the exterior curled: and 
bifid. Capsules spherical, opening on ae sides. Seeds few. 
Beng. Poonnag-champa.* 
S elcalsUs nutans. Andr. Bot. Repos. 5. th . 360. 
Globba nutans, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. 1. 15. 8 
This very elegant plant, a native of the Eastern Islands, was in 
duced by the Rev. Dr. Carey, into the Botanic Garden near Calcul 
ta, where it blossoms in April and May. 
Root perennial, tuberous, Sc. as in the other species. Stems m mor 
or less bent to one side, (a direction common to most of the plant 
of this order;) from four to six feet high.— Leaves bifarious, $ 
sessile on their sheaths, occupying the upper half of the stems ,u 
lower are broad lanceolar, the upper much narrower, all are entire, 
and remarkably smooth on both sides; while young the margins vil- 
lous; length from one to three feet..—Sheaths of the leaves smoot 
with a stipulary bearded process, rising above the insertion of 
leaf.— Racemes terminal, compound, variously curved, villous, about 
` a foot long, drooping under the leaves.— Involucre of generally t 
caducous, lanceolate, boat shaped sheaths.— F/oxers numerous, 
large.— Pedicels two or three-flowered.— Bracteslarge, concave, pure 
white, with a pink-coloured apex, smooth ; a common one to thet 
or three flowers, and a proper, meet one to the pde and. hi 
* From this name, which Dr. Baniak mentions as the Ape mni is vati 
to suppose this plant to be the Poonnaga of the Sungskrita Materia Medica. Ifs 
the following Sungskrita Synomina should stand before the Bengalee name, iath, 
Poonnaga, "reus, Pooroosha, sis, Toonga, "mta, Pooman, HB, Patula, Z3 » 
Rukta- -poethpa, satay, Poontiama: uUa. Rukta-renoo, Wt, Uroond. - “It 
however doubtful whether this plant is the Poonvaga. Ed, 2 
