80 | MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Globba, 
filiform. Stigma saosin mouth ciliate Lhave not 
seen the fruit. 
6. G. Careyana. R. ~ 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, villous underneath. Racemes ter- 
minal, compound, bulbiferous. Corel with the two seg- 
ments of the inner border as long as the sips Anther naked, 
sub-orbicular, 
From Pegue this pretty little plant was cicaliee by Mr. 
F. Carey into the 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 ratan, about eighteen inches high, and 
invested in the sheaths of the 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 out- 
_ side, scarcely ending in any ligula, but rising a little on each 
side. Racemes terminal, erect, composed of little, alternate 
fascicles, of about three flowers each, supported on very 
short, common pedicels ; each of the lowermost of them pro- 
duces a small, obovate bulb, and two or three more between : 
the racemes and the leaves. Jowers.numerous, small, of a 
deep orange colour. Bractes concave, acute, one to each 
fascicle; and a smaller coloured one to each, flower; all ca- 
pay Calyx superior, tubular, three-toothed, coloured. 
Corol ; exterior border of three, nearly equal, oval lobes; 
Interior of two linear lobes, which are as long as the lip; 
soon after expansion they are reflected back over the exte- 
rior border, but become involute before the flower drops. Lip 
alittle elevated above the five segments of the exterior bor- 
‘dh So at both ends. Filament long, incurved, ke, asin 
