76 ilOKTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Globba. 



Is a native of the moist valiies in the northern Circars, and flowers 

 dunng the rainy season. 



Roots biennial. — Stems annnal, bending obliquely to one side, as 

 in the case with most plants of the natural order, aboist two or three 

 feet long ; lower part envolved in a few simple sheaths, above with 

 the sheathing petioles of the leaves. — Leaves alternate, bifarious, 

 very short-petioled, oblong, ending in a tapering filiform point, entire, 

 smooth, finely veined; from eight to ten inches long, and from two to 

 four broad. — Petioles short. Sheaths opening on the side opposite to 

 the leaf. — Panicles terminal, erect, oblong, thin, rigid. — Flozeers ses- 

 sile, small, deep orange yellow. — Bracles solitary, one-flowered, oval, 

 falling. — Calyx one-leaved, mouth three-toothed. — Corol ; Tube a lit- 

 tle curved, widening gradually to the mouth, twice the length of the 

 calyx. Border ^owhie -^ e:it^n"or three-parted ; upper division largest, 

 sub-erect, concave ; the other two inferior, and ovate. Interior of 

 two, smaller, opposite, ovate lobes, — Filament very long, much curv- 

 ed, base tubular, and ornamented wiih a large, orange-coloured, 

 two-lobed lip, or apron. Anther at the extremity of the filament, 

 naked, double, or two-lobed. — Stifle embraced at the base by the 

 two subulate bodies {nectaries of'Konig); above the tube of the co- 

 rol, it takes a curved direction like the filament, but is shorter, so 

 that the curve is less; its end passes between the lobes of the anther. 

 Stidma clubbed, half immersed between the lobes of the anther. — 

 Capsule sub-globular, watery, fleshy, one-celled. — Seeds many. 



4. G. Ilura. R. ^ 



JLeaves ovate-oblong. Racemes terminal, erect ; pedicels tern, 

 three-flowered. Anther with a membranaceous crest. 

 Hura siamensium. Kon. in Retz. obs. 3. 49.* 

 Nat. of the peninsula of Malacca. 



5. G. pendula. R. 



Leaves lanceolate. Racemes terminal, compound, much longer 

 than ihe leaves, pendulous. Anther bicalcarate. 



• G. versicokr, Smith Exoti Bot. ii. 116. tab. 117. a, b, c— N. W. 



