Globba. MONANDRIA. MONOSYNIA. 77 



Found by Mr. William Roxburgh, on the Island of Pjift<-Pi;tfl;j^. 

 Flowering time the rainy season. 



Root fibrous — Leaves lanceolate, smooth, fine-pointed. Sheaths 

 a little hairy on the outside. — Racemes terminal, solitary, compound, 

 very long, pendulous.— Pedicels remote, diverging, generally three- 

 nowered.—Bractes caducous ; those of the pedicels solitary, oblongs 

 ciiiate ; those of the flowers oval, ciliate.— Ca/j/j campanulate, three- 



cooihed Corol; Tube ascending, long and slender ; Border double. 



Exterior three-parted, of these the upper one is concave; the other two 

 obliquely obovate, expanding, and flat. Interior border of two, oppo- 

 site, lanceolate, expanding lobes. — Filament very long", curved; base 

 tubular and winged, with a bifid, cuneiform, yellow lip or apron, above 

 it is grooved for the reception of the style. Anther two-lobed ; each 

 lobe bending in a long curved spur. — Germ beneath, oval. Style fili- 

 form. Stigma funnel-shaped, mouth ciiiate. — I have not seen the 

 fruit. 



6. G. Caret/ana. R. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, villous underneath. Racemes terminal, 

 compound, bulbiferous.— Co/o/ with the two segments of the inner 

 border as long as the lip. Anther naked, suborbicular. 



From Pe^ue this pretty little plant was introduced by Mr. F. Ca- 

 rey into the Botanic Garden near Cfl/c«^/a, where itflowers in August. 



Root tuberous, about biennial, perishing at one end, and shooting 

 forth at the other. This may be considered the general habit of all the 

 species.— 5fems,numerous, oblong, as thick as a slender ratan, about 

 eighteen inches high, and invested in the sheaths of the leaves.— Leaws 

 sessile on their sheaths, alternate, bifarious, from broad-lanceolate 

 to ovate-obloug, very finely acuminate, villous underneath ; about 

 «ix inches long, by two ht odd. —Sheaths villous on the outside, 

 scarcely ending in any ligula, but rising a little on each side. — Ra- 

 cemes terminal, erect, composed of little, alternate fascicles, of 

 about three liowers each, supported on very short, common pedicels; 

 each of the lowermost Qi them produces a small, obovate bulb, and 



