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No. 100. 
GLOBBA MARANTINA. 
Class. Te Order, 
MONANDRIA | MONOGYNTA. 
We raised this several years ago from seeds 
sent us from the East Indies by the late Dr. 
Roxburgh. It requires t the stove heat, and 
is easily cultivated in a small pot in sandy 
loam: the flowers are produced in a ter- 
minal spike; they are curiously formed, and 
singly, do not last long; yet as one spike 
throws. out a ee bloss 
The whole plant ar not sr two feet 
in height: some of the stems produce no 
flowers; instead of which a number of small 
bulbs grow out, which, dropping down, be- 
come plants: this mode of increase is not 
peculiar to this plant alone, many others 
propagate themselves ina similar manner, 
and may truly be called viviparous. So 
diversified are the ways, with which our 
Creator has endued the vegetable kingdom 
with the power of multiplying and replenish- 
ing the earth. His beneficent hand has formed 
