Giobba. MONANBRIA MOMÓGYNIA. 77 
Found by Mr. William Roxburgh, on the Island of Pulu-Pinang. 
Flowering time the rainy season. 
Root fibrous.— Leaves lanceolate, smooth, fine-pointed. Sheaths — 
` a little hairy on the outside.— Racemes terminal, solitary, compound, 
very long, pendulous.— Pedicels remote, diverging, generally three- 
flowered.—Bractes caducous; those of the pedicels solitary, oblong, 
ciliate ; those of the flowers oval, ciliate.—Ca/yz campanulate, three- 
toothed.— Corol ; Tube ascending, long and slender ; Border double. 
Exterior three-parted, of these the upper one is concave; the other two 
obliquely obovate, expanding, and flat. Interior border of two, oppo- 
site, lanceolate, expanding lobes.— Filament very long, curved ; base 
tubular and winged, with a bifid, cuneiform, yellow lip or apron, above. 
it is grooved for the reception of the style. Anther two-lebed ; each 
lobe bending in a long curved spur.—Germ beneath, oval. Style fili- 
form. Stigma funnel-shaped, mouth ciliate.—I have not seen the 
fruit. 
6. G. Careyana. R. ap 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, villous underneath. ^ Racemes terminal, 
compound, bulbiferous.—Corol with the two segments of the inner 
border as long as the lip. Anther naked, suborbicular. 
From Pegue this pretty Intle plant was introduced by Mr. F. Ca- 
rey intothe Botanic Garden near Calcutta, where it flowers in August. 
Root tuberous, about biennial, perishing at one end, and shooting 
forth at the other. This may be considered the general habit of all the — 
species.—Stems numerous, oblong, as thick as a slender ratag, about 
eighteen inches high, and invested i in the sheaths ofthe leaves. — Leaves ; 
sessile on their sheaths, alternate, bifarious, from broad-lanceolate 
to ovate-oblong, very finely acuminate, villous underneath ; about 
six inches long, by two broad.—Sheaths villous on the outside, | 
scarcely ending in any ligula, but rising a little on each side.—Ra- 
«emes terminal, erect, composed of little, alternate fascicles, of 
about three flowers each, supported on very short, common pedice 
each of the lowermost of them pde a sia. opes bulb, and 
