G6 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. AlptHtO, 



drooping, tip broad, thxee-lobed, the lateral incurved into 

 a tube; the exterior curled and bifid. Capsules spherical, 

 opening on the sides. Seeds few. 



Bena. Poonnag-champa. 



Renealmia nutans. Andr. Bat. Repos. 5. t. 360. 



Globba in/tans. Linn. sp. pL <'<L Wittd. I. 1"). 3. 



This very elegant plant, a native of the Eastern Islands, 

 was introduced by the Rev. Dr. Carey, into the Botanic gar- 

 den near < ' ricutta, w here it blossoms in \pril and Miv. 



Root perennial, tuberous, &c as in the other species. 



Stems more or Less bent t<> one side (a direction common to 



most of the plants <><" this order.) from four to six feet high. 



Leaves bifarious, sub-sessile on their sheaths, occupying the 



upper half of the stems; the lower are broad-lanceolar, the 



upper much narrower, all arc entire, and remarkably smooth 



on both sides; while young the margins \ illous ; length from 



one to time feet. Sheaths of the leaves smooth, w ten a stipu- 



bearded process, rising above the insertion of the leal. 



Racemes terminal, compound, variously curved, villous, 



about a foot long, drooping under the leaves, fitvo&icreoi 



generally two, caducous, lanceolate, boat-shaped sheaths. 



flowers numerous, large. Pedicels two or three-flowered. 



Bractes large, concave, pure white, with a pink-coloured 



apex, smooth ; a common one to the two or three (lowers, and 

 a proper, smaller one to the second and third flowers, which 

 expand in succession for.a long time after the first. Calyx 

 superior, colour of the bractes, three-toothed. Corol with 

 a doulde border; exterior three-parted, pale pink, with 

 deeper rosy apices; upper division oval, incumbent; lower 

 two linear oblong, revolute, with the apices rounded. Inner 

 lip laryc. ovate-cordate, obscurely threo-lobed, lateral lobes 

 incurved into a large eampanuiate tube-; apex of the inte- 

 rior lobe bifid, margins curled; at the base are two spurs 

 which embrace the base of the style, colour of the whole a 

 mixture of deep or mge yellow, with a dark crimson ground, 

 and veins. Gfennbeneatb, oval, hairy, tbree-celled, with many 



