$2 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, . Globba. 
ed. Scapes radical, from three to four inches long, often 
several arise from the same cluster of roots, erect, enveloped 
in three or four, alternate, smooth, short sheaths. Panicle 
erect, about a foot high, including the scape, and expand- 
ing nearly as much, the whole a very lively bluish purple. 
- Ranifications alternate, long, simple, diverging, bearing in 
succession numerous, alternate, sessile, small, lovely purple 
and yellow flowers. Bractes solitary, light purple, smooth ; 
those of the ramifications oblong ; those of the flowers cor- 
date. Flowers solitary, sessile in the axills of their proper 
bractes. Calyx superior, clavate, smooth, light purple; 
- mouth three-toothed, permanent, with the lower half of the 
tube of the corol. Corol; tube long and very slender ; the 
lower half, which is inclosed in the tube of the calyx, pro- 
jecting : horizontally ; the upper half erect; at the angle, 
which those portions of the tube make with each other, and 
which is nearly a right one, the flower drops, leaving the 
lower half to wither. Border single and three-parted ; up- 
per division erect, pressing on the back of the base of 
the filament, oblong, boat-shaped; lower two divisions 
obliquely cordate, and reflexed, all the three are of a light 
purple colour. Lip cuneate, deeply two-parted, much 
larger than the divisions of the exterior border, deep orange | 
yellow, forming a pretty contrast with the lively purple of 
every other part of the panicle, Filament very long, very 
slender, on the first day much incurved, afterwards revolute, 
finely grooved on the underside for the reception of the style ; 
_ near the base are two, very long, slender, flat, subulate, diverg~ 
ing, recurved wings. In my other six species with terminal 
inflorescence, these are entirely wanting, but the mner two- 
lobed border is present, Anther double, and enlarged at 
the sides with two, broad, reniform wings. Germ beneath, 
- oval, with nine longitudinal ridges, a transverse section ex- 
hibits one cell only, with numerous seeds, attixed to three © 
