.Globba. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, vir’ 
1. G. marantina, Willd. spec. plant, 1,153. ~ ws! 
Leaves \anceolar. Spike terminal,,sub-sessile, strobiliform, 
_bulbiferous. Anther four-horned. 
 G, marantina, Smith’s Exot, Bot. 2. pe 85. t. 103. Roscoe 
in Trans, of Linn. Soe. 8. 356. 
Lompujum silvestre minus, Rumph, Amb. 5. 150.¢. 64. f2 2. 
A native of the Moluccas, and from thence introduced into 
the Botanic garden near Calcutta by bits of the root found © 
amongst the earth in which nutmeg and other plants were 
<ategce: from Amboyna. Flowering time, in Bengal, the rainy 
Root perennial, Picisting of many, small, oblong, fleshy 
tubers, united to the base of the stems. Stems annual, about 
twelve or eighteen inches high, somewhat recurved, envelop- 
ed in the sheaths of the leaves, the whole as thick as a rat- 
tan anda little compressed. Leaves bifarious, sessile on their 
half stem-clasping sheaths, broad-lanceolate, acute, smooth 
above, somewhat villous and whitish underneath, margins 
waved; length from one to six inches, 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 sometimes even the whole, have each 
a single, small, brownish, sessile, pointed, ovate bulb in the 
axill ; the superior are smaller and generally embrace a single 
flower each. Flowers slender, bright-yellow, and fragrant. 
Calyx superior, somewhatgibbous, three-toothed. Corol one- 
petalled. Tube long, and very slender. Border double;-ex- 
terior three-parted, nearly equal, oblong, concave, and re- 
flexed ; inner of two lobes, which are longer by one-third 
than. those of the exterior border, pene hia 
