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1. G. marantina. Willd. spec, plant. 1. 153. 



Leaves lanceolar. Spike terminal, sub-sessile, strobiliform, 

 bulbiferous. Anther four-horned. 



G. marantina. Smith's Exot. Bot. 2. p. 85. t. 103. Roscoe 

 in Trans, of Linn. Soc. 8. 35G. 



Lompujum silvestre minus. Rumph.Amb.5. loO.t. QA.f.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 

 brought from Amboyna. Flowering time, in Bengal, the rainy 

 reason. 



Root perennial, consisting of many, small, oblong, fleshy 

 tubers, united to the base of the steins. 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 and a little compressed. Leaves hilarious, 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, somewhat gibbous, three-toothed. Corolone- 

 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, cuneate, and of a deeper 

 yellow, reflected over the anterior two divisions of the outer 

 border. Lip elevated on a continuation of the tube, a little 

 above the former, consisting of two cuneate, reflected seg- 

 tnente, united at the middle only. The upper end continued 



