76 MONANDHIA MONOGYNIA. Globblt. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal, where it blossoms 

 during- the rains. 



Root perenuial, throwing- oft' numerous suckers, which run 

 both above and under the surface of the earth, by which 

 this species is soon multiplied. Stems many, erect, or near- 

 ly so, as thick as a man's forefinger, smooth, from (our to six 

 ieet high. Leaves hilarious sessile on their sheaths, lanceo- 

 late, smooth on both sides ; from twelve to twenty in< lies long', 

 by from four to I i v * - broad. Sheaths smooth, rising- little 

 above the ins* rtian of the leaf. Spikes radical, solitary, the 

 apex only rising above tin soil, laxly imbricated a\ i 1 1 i oblong, 

 obtuse, smooth. exn rkwr, and interior, one-flowered, green 

 brnctes ; besides the interior, proper, tubular, thin, colourless 

 bractrs or inferior esUjfX, Calyx superior, tubular, length of 

 the tube of me corol; month three-toothed, split quke down 

 on one side; colour from the middle upwards deep red. 

 Corol; exterior herder of three, sub-lanceolate, obtuse, red 

 segments. Lip sub-linguiforni. the base broad, and axis in- 

 « nived, forming an envelope for (he stamen, from thence pro- 

 jecting almost horizontally, into a long linear, bifid lamina, 

 with curled margins; colour yellow, wkh a little red down 

 the centre. Stamen as m the genus. Germ hairy, three- 

 celled ; oviihi many, attached to one fleshy receptacle in the 

 voter angle. Style embraced at the base by the nectarial 

 bodies, which are in litis species bidentate. Stigma large, 

 and red. 



GLOBE A. Schreb. gen. plant. iV.54. 



Corol In with the interior border two-lobed, or none. Fila- 

 ment very long, base tubular, and winged with a cruciform 

 lip. Anther double, with an appendix, or naked. Capsule 

 one-celled, three-valved. Seeds many, attached to three pari- 

 etal receptacles. Embryo simple, and furnished with both 

 pcrisperm and ritellus. 



