Globba. MoxAVDRiA :monogtxia. 



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cession of ticnvevs from the extremities of the lengthening branches of 

 the p-.tnicle, for nearly two montlis, \vhich renders this lovely plant 

 one of tlie most cijurining of the whole natural order that I have yet 

 m-t with. The specific nitme is taken from theshape ofl'ae win<Ts of 

 the lihunent. 



livol: perennial, co:i!posed of numerous, diverging, fleshy fibres 

 soaio fusiform, some columnar. -.<?^f;;?, annual, bending a little to one 

 side ; from one to two feet \n'J^^^.—Lmces alternate, bii'arious, ses- 

 sile on their sheaths, lanceolate, with a long, withered, filiform point; 

 vilious on Ijuih skU's ; length from six to nine inches, and about one 

 and a half broad. .^Iieuths smooth, keeled; %«/fl,or stipulary process 

 iium.ated.--6'i7/;;t^6- iadual,from tinvc to four inches long, often several 

 anse from the same cluster of nx.il.s, erect, enveloped in three or four. 

 alieniate, sni-oolh, .short sh( atli>.— r6V</(/c erect, about a foot high, 

 mcludiiig tin; scape, and expanding nearly as much, the \\ hole a very 

 lively blueish purple, liainifications alternate, long, simple, divero-. 

 -ing, bearing in succession numerous, alternate, sessile, small, love- 

 ly {^urpie and ncIIow llowers.— ij/actt?s solitary, light purple, smooth ; 



those of the ramilications oblong ; those of the flowers cordate. 



Fhzcers solitary, sessile in the axils of their proper bractes. — Cali/x 

 superior, clavate, smooth, light purple; mouth three-toothed, perma- 

 nent, with the lower half of the tube of the cowl.— Carol ; Tube lono- 

 and very slender; the lower half, which is inclosed in the tube of the 

 calyx, projecting horizontally; the upper half erect; at the angle, 

 M hich those portions of the tube make with each other, and which is 

 nearly a right one, the flower drops, leaving the louer half to wither. 

 Jhrder single and three-parted ; upper division erect, pressing on 

 the back of the base of the filament, oblong, boat-shaped ; lower 

 two divisions obliquely cordate, and reflexed, all I he three are of a 

 light purple colour. !>?/) cuneate, deeply two-parttd, much larger 

 than the divisions of the exterior border, deep orange \ellow, forming 

 a pretty contrast with the livelv purple of every other part of the pa- 

 nicle. — Filament very long and very slender, on the first day much in- 

 curved, afterwards revolute, finely grooved on the underside for the 

 reception of the style ; near the base are two, very long, slender, flat, 



