76 _ MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Globba:, 
. A native of the interior parts of Bengal, where it blossoms 
during the rains. 
Root perennial, throwing off numerous | auckers, bid run 
both above and under the surface of the earth, by which 
this species is soon multiplied. Stems many, erect, or near- 
ly so, as thick as a man’s forefinger, smooth, from four to six. 
feet high. Leaves bifarious, sessile on their sheaths, lanceo- 
late, smooth on both sides ; from twelve to twenty inches long, |” 
by from four to five broad. Sheaths smooth, rising little 
above the insertion of the leaf. Spikes radical, solitary, the 
apex onlyrising above the soil, laxly imbricated with oblong, 
obtuse, smooth, exterior, and interior, one-flowered, green 
bractes ; besides the interiof, proper, tubular, thin, colourless 
bractes or inferior calyx. Calyx superior, tabular, length of . 
the tube of the corol; mouth three-toothed, split quite down 
on one side; colour from the middle upwards deep red. 
Corol; exterior border of three, sub-lanceolate, obtuse, red 
segments, Lip sub-linguiform, the base broad, and axis in- 
curved, forming an envelope for the stamen, from thence pro- 
jecting almost horizontally, into a long linear, bifid lamina, 
with curled margins; colour yellow, witha little red down 
the centre. Siamen as in the genus. Germ hairy, three~ 
celled ; ovula many, attached to one fleshy receptacle in the — 
inner iin Style embraced at the base by the nectarial 
hodies, which are in this species bidentate. - Beas ete 
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Corolla with the interior border two-lobed, or none. Fila: 
ment very long, base tubular, and winged with a cruciform. 
lip. Anther double, with an appendix, or naked. Capsule 
one-celled, three-valved. Seeds many, attached to three pari- 
: etal, ‘Teceptacles, Embryo ae and furnished with bot 
erisp ped pelts : 
