76 . - MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Globba. 
_ Isa native of the moist vallies in the northern Circars, and flowers 
during the rainy season. 
Roots biennial.— Stems annual, bending obliquely to one side, as 
in the case with most plants of the natural order, about two or three 
feet long; lower part eivolved in a few simple sheaths, above with 
the atthing petioles of the leaves.— Leaves alternate, bifarious, 
very short-petioled, oblong, ending in a tapering filiform point, entire, 
smooth, finely veined; from eight to ten inches long, and from two to 
four broad.— Petioles short. Sheaths opening on the side opposite to 
the leaf.— Panicles terminal, erect, oblong, thin, rigid.— Flowers ses- 
sile, small, deep orange yellow.— Bractes solitary, one-flowered, oval, — 
falling. —Calyx one-leaved, mouth three-toothed.—Corol ; Tube a lit- 
tle curved, widening gradually to the mouth, twice the length of the 
calyx. Border double ; exterior thrée-parted ; upper division largest, 
sub-erect, concave; the other two inferior, and ovate. Interior of — 
two, smaller, opposite, ovate lobes.—Fi lament very long, much curva 
ed, base.tnbular, and ornamented with a large, orange-coloured, 
two-lobed lip, or apron, Anther at the extremity of the filament, — 
naked, double, or two-lobed.—Style embrated at the base by the 
two subulate bodies (nectaries of Konig); above the tube of the co- 
rol, it takes a curved direction like the filament, but is shorter, so 
that the curve is less; its end passes between the lobes of the anther. 
Stigma clubbed, half immersed between the lobes of the auther.— - 
Capsule sub-globular, watery, fleshy, one-celled.—Seeds many. 
4. G. Hura. R. 
Leaves ovate-oblong. Racemes terminal, erect; pedicels tern, 
three-flowered. Anther with a membranaceous crest. 
Hura siamensium. Kön. in Retz. obs. 3. 49.* 
Nat. of the peninsula of Malacca. 
5. G. pendulà. R. 
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Leaves lanceolate. Racemes terminal, a much ges Y 
than the leaves, pendulous. Anther bicalcarate. ; 
* G. versicolar, Smith Exot Bot, ii. 116, tab, 117. a, 5 c, —N. W. 
