64 MovANDRiA monogynAl. A^pinta. 



surpassing -4. nutans, which I believe the Botanicn! Repository cosi- 

 siders a species of Keneabiiia, 



5. A. nutans. Roscoe in Trans, of Linn. 5oc. 8. S^G. 



Leaven lanceolav, short-petioled, smooth. Racemes compound by 

 the lower pedicels being two or three-tiowered, drooping.. ii^ broad, 

 three-lobed, the lateral hicurved mto a tufce; the exterior curled and 

 bifid. Capsules spherical, opening on the sides. Seeds few. 



Beng. Poonnag-champa.* 



Renealmia nutans. And/'. Bot. Repos. 5. t. o50- 



Globba «/i/a;is. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ffil/d. 1. 15. 3. 



This very elegant plant, a native of the Eastern Islands, was intro- 

 duced by the Rev. Dr. Carey, into the Botanic Garden uear Calcut- 

 ta, where it blossoms in April and May. 



Root perennial, tuberous, &c. as in the other s{)ecies. — Stems snort; 

 or less bent to one side, (a direction common to most of the plan'.s 

 of 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 are entire, 

 and remarkably smooth on both sides; while young the margins vil- 

 lous; length from one to three t'ccL— Sheaths of the leaves smootli^ 

 with a stipulary bearded process, rising above the insertloii of the 

 leaf. — Racemes terminal, compound, variously curved, villous, about 

 a foot long, drooping under the leaves. — Involucre o( generally two, 

 caducous, lanceolate, boat shaped sheaths. — Flotcers numerous, 

 large. — Pedicels two or three-llowered. ~ Braf^es large, concave, pure 

 white, with a pink-coloured apex, smooth ; a common one to the two 

 or three flowers, and a proper, smaller one to the second and third 



* From this name, which Dr. Roxburgli mentions as the Bengal naiue, it is natural 

 to suppose this plant to be the Poonua^a of the Sungskrita Materia Meilica- If so 

 the following Sun^jskrita S ynoniina should stand before the Bengalee name, ^^t^t, 

 Poonnaga, ^WS.', Pooroijsha. ;y^s Toonj^a, pfait^, Pooman, «tt^ci;s. Patula, V^^M, 

 Rukta-pooshpa, '^t'll, Poonnama, 5^J<ret, Rnkta-renoo, ^^ejs, (Jrcona. It is 

 htwever doubtful whether this plain is the Poouuaga. Ld. 



