78 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Globba, 
into a very long, slender, incurved, grooved filament. 4n--_ 
- ther double, with two horns from each side. Germ beneath, 
round, tubercled, one-celled, ovula parietal. Style slender, 
as long as the tube of the corol and filament, and lodged ina 
groove therein, Stigma funnel-shaped. Pericarp ; I have 
not found it come to maturity. ©The little bulbs found in the 
axills of the lower bractes of the spike, — or and 
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Stems bulbiferous. ‘Earsen oblong. Racemes terminal —* 
shorter than the leaves, bulbiferous. - ae 
- Teling. Conda pooshpoo. th 
- A native i eros Circars. — 
8. G, orixensis. R. fa es 
Leaves oblong. Panicle cevthinsal Anther naked, Capea 
verrucose, 
Is a native of the moist vallies in the northern — and 
. flowers during: the rainy season. : 
* Roots biennial.- Stems annual, bending sbliqualy to one 
fides as in the case with most plants of the natural order, 
about two or *three feet long; lower part involved in a few — 
simple sheaths, above with the sheathing petioles of the leaves. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, very short-petioled, oblong, end- 
ing 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 
sessile, small, deep orange yellow. Bractes solitary, one-flow- 
ered, oval, falling. ~Calya one-leaved, mouth three-toothed, 
Corol ; tube alittle curved, widening gradually tothe mouth, — 
ee tie length of the calyx. Border double; exterior 
* : ; upper division largest, sub-erect, concave; the 
c ao; and ovate. Interior of ss, smaller, op oppo- 
