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Giobba. MONANDRIA MONOGXNIA. | 75: 
Leaves bifarious, sessile on their half stem-clasping sheaths, broad- 
lanceolate, acute, smooth above, soinewhat villous and whitish under- 
= margins waved; length from one to six itches, the lower being 
very small, and cordate.—Sheaths half stem-clasping, smooth, with 
semi-lunate, projecting, bearded mouths, rising above the insertion of 
the leaves.— —Spikes terminal, sessile, solitary, strobiliform, oblong.— - 
Bractes numerous, ovate-cordate, the lower half, or more, and some- _ 
times even the whole, have each a single, small, brownish, sessile, 
pointed, ‘ovate bulb in the axil; the superior are smaller and general- 
ly embrace a single - flower ‘each. —Flowers nn; bright-yellow, 
and fragrant—-Calys’ supe TTE i 
rior three-parted, tiédrly equal, oblong, concave, si etext diner 
of two lobes, which are longer by one third than those of the exte- 
xior border, cuneate, and of a deeper yellow, reflected over the ante- 
rior two divisions of the outer border. Lip elevated on a continuation 
of the tube, a little above the former, consisting of two cuneate, re- 
flected segments, united at the middle only. - The upper end conti- 
nued into a very long, slender, incurved, grooved filament. Anther 
double, with two horns from each side. —Germ beneath, round, tuber- 
cled, oue-celled, ovuda parietal. Style slender, as long as the tube 
of the corol and filament, and lodged in a groove therein. - Stigma 
funnel-shaped:—Pericarp ; I have not found it come to matt 
The little bulbs found in the axills of the lower bractes of the ‘spike, 
readily — and thus the plant is abundantly psu. 
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2. G. bulbi era. R- fouticust zs Pun 
Stems bulbiferous. Leaves oblong. cenas tini e "in shor 
er than the leaves, bulbiferous. ~- BS IERES 
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3. G. orixensis. ie ug E w 
Hates opionn, Panicle terminal.  Anther naked. a 
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