66 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Alpiniay 
drooping. Lip broad, three-lobed, the lateral incurved into 
a tube; the exterior curled and bifid. re oe 
yin 2 on the sides. Seeds few. - 
Beng. Poonnag-champa. 
~ Renealmia nutans. Andr. Bot. Repos. 5. t. 360. 
 Globba nutans. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 15.3. 
This very elegant plant, a native of the Eastern Islands, 
was introduced by the Rev. Dr. Carey, into the Botanic gar- 
defi: near Caleutta, where it blossoms in April and May.’ ' 
~ Root perennial, tuberous, &c. as in the other species. 
Seams ‘more or less bent to one side, (a direction common to 
most of the plants of this order,) from four to six feet high. 
Leaves bifarious, sub-sessile on their sheaths, occupying the 
upper half of the stems; the lower are broad-lanceolar, the 
upper much narrower, all are entire, and remarkably smooth 
on both sides ; while young the margins villous ; length from 
one to three feet.  Sheaths of the leaves smooth, -witly a stipu- 
lary bearded process, rising above the insertion of the leaf, 
Racemes terminal, compound, variously curved, villous, 
about a foot long, drooping under the leaves, Involucre of 
generally two, ecidncons, lanceolate, boat-shaped sheaths, 
Flowers wamerous, large. Pedicels two or three-flowered. 
Bractes large, concave, pure white, with a pink-coloured 
apex, smooth; a common one to the-txo. La fowenss meet : 
a proper, smaller one to the second 1ird. flo’ 
expand in succession: fee lonig tie afm cho tic Cale 
superior, , colour of the ‘bractes, three-toothed.  Corol with 
a double border; exterior three-parted, pale’ pmk, with 
deeper rosy antiely upper division oval, incumbent} lower . 
two linear-oblong, revolute, with the apices rounded, . Inner 
lip large, ovate-cordate, obscurely three-lobed, lateral lobes 
incurved into a large campanulate’ tube ; apex of the’ inte- 
rior lobe bifid, margins curled; at the base are two spurs 
which embrace the base of the style; colour of the whole a 
PRkountaea orange yellow, with a dark ¢ crimson; 
