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74  MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gilobba. 
exterior; and interior, one-flowered, green bractes ; besides the interi- 
9r, proper, tubular, thin, colourless bractes or inferior calyx.—Calyy — | 
superior, tubular, length of the tube of the corol; mouth three-tooth- — 
ed, split quite down on one side ; colour from the middle upwards 
deep red.— Corol ; exterior border of three, sub-lanceolate, obtuse, ted 
‘segments. Lip sub-linguiform, the base broad, and axis incurved, 
forming an envelope for the stamen, from thence projecting almost 
horizontally, into a long linear, bifid lamina, with curled margins; co- . 
lour yellow, with a little rea down the centre —Stamen as in the ge- y 
nus.— Germ hairy, three-celled ; ovula many, attached to one fleshy : 
receptacle in the inner angle. Style embraced. at the base by the 
nectarial bodies, which are in this species bidentate. Stigma large, — 
and red. 
GLOBBA. ties iae Plant. N. 54. 
Corolla with the interior porder two-lobed, or none. Filament = 
ng ; base tubular, and winged witha cruciform lip. Anther 
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double, with an appendix, ornaked. Capsule one-celled, three-val- _ 4 
ved. Seeds many attached to three parietal receptacles. Embryo 
ups and furnished with both perisperm and vitellus. — 
1. G. marantina. Willd. Spec. Plant. 1. 153. 
Leaves lauceolar. Spike terminal, sub-sessile, strobiliform, bulbi- — 
ferous. Aniher four-horned. 
¿© G. marantina. Smith's Exot. Bot. 2. p. 85. t. 103. — Roscoe in 
Trans. of Linn. Soc. 8 356.* 
. Lompujum silvestre minus. Rumph. amb. 5. 150. t. 64. $ 2. 
A native of the Moluccas, and from thence introduced intothe Bo- 
tanic Garden near Calcutta by bits of the root found amongst the — 
earth in which nutmeg and other plants were brought ma = ; : 
na. Flowering time, in Bengal, the rainy reason. -= — E. 
Root perennial, consisting of many, small, oblong, dur fibers; 
united to the base of the stems.— Stems annual, about twelve or 
eighteen inches high, somewhat recurved, inveloped in the sheaths of — 
the leaves, the whole as thick as a rattan, and a little compressed. — A 
© Ceratanthera amomoides. Hornem: Hort. "Hafn- P- 5.—N- wW. 
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