74 MOVAN'DRIA MOXOGYN'IA. Globbct. 



exterior, and interior, one-flowered, green hractes; besides the interi- 

 or, proper, tubular, tliin, colourless bracies or inferior calyx. — Cali/x 

 superior, tubular, leugtli of the tube of the corol ; mouth three. tooth- 

 ed, split quite down on one side ; colour from the middle upwards 

 deep red. — Corol: exterior border of three, sub-lanceolate, obtuse, red 

 segments. Lip sub-!uiguiform, the base broad, and axis incurved, 

 forming an envelope for the stamen, from thence projecting almost 

 horizontally, into a long linear, bitid lamina, with curled margins ; co- 

 lour yellow, v/xlh a little rea down the centre. — S^a/zie;/ as in the ge- 

 nus. — Germ hairy, three-ceiled ; ovnla many, attached to one fleshy 

 receptacle in the inner angle. Slijle embraced at the base by \\ui 

 nectanal bodies. Vvhich are in this species bidentate. Stigma large. 

 .ind red. 



GLOB B A. Schreb. Gen. Plant. N. .54. 



Corolla with the inteiior border lwo-!o])ed, or none. Filanimt 

 very long, base tubular, and winged witli a cruciform lip. Ajithcr 

 double, with an appendix, or naked. Capsule one-celled, three-val- 

 ved. Seeds many attached to three parietal receptacles. Emhrijo 

 simple, and furnished with both perisperm and vitellus. 



1. G.marantina. IVilld. Spec Plant. 1. 153. 



Leaves lanceolar. Spike terminal, sub-sessile, strobiliform, bulbi- 

 ferous. Anther four-horned. 



G. marantina. Smith's Exot. Bot. 2,. p. 85. t. IO.'j. Roscoe in 

 Trans, of Linn. Soc. 8 3.36.* 



Lompujum sUvestre minus. Runiph. amb. 5. 150. t. 64. f. 2. 



A native of the Moluccas, and from thence introduced into the Bo- 

 tanic Garden near Calcutta by bits of the root found amongst the 

 earth in which nutmeg and other plants were brought from Amboy- 

 na. Flowering time, in Bengal, the rainy reason. 



Root perennial, consisting of many, small, oblong, fleshy tubers, 

 united to the base of the stems. — Stems annual, about twelve or 

 eighteen inches high, somewhat recurved, inveloped in the sheaths of 

 the leaves, the whole a* thick as a rattan^ anil a little compressed. — 



• Ceratantheraamoiuoides. Hornem- Ilort- Hafnp-5.S- M 



