GLOBBA CAREYANA. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. II. SCITAMINER. 
Gey. Cuar.—Anther double, embracing the style; filament long, flexile, with a membranous appendage at the apex. 
Srrc. Cuar.—Inflorescence terminal; flowers in fascicles; leaves ovate-lanceolate ;_ anther broad-ovate, slightly 
projected or winged at the margin ; lip bifid at both ends. 
Globba Careyana, Roxb. Flor. Ind. No. Opes 
Globba Careyana, Loddiges’ Bot. Cab. No. 691. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root tuberous, spreading, fusiform; stems numerous, about two feet high, invested in the sheathing of the 
leaves, which are spotted with red; leaves sessile, alternate, bifarious, broad-lanceolate, finely acuminate, smooth 
on the upper surface, but villous underneath ; racemes terminal, erect, composed of alternate fascicles of about three 
flowers each, on short pedicels, the lowest of them producing a viviparous bulb, as is usual in the genus; general 
bractes one to each fascicle, with a smaller coloured one to each flower; calyx superior, campanulate, trifid, slightly 
hairy at the apex; corolla tubular, slightly villous; exterior limb in three nearly equal, ovate, segments, the two 
lateral ones reflexed, the central one incurved, and somewhat hooded ; the interior limb of three unequal segments, 
the two lateral ones longer than the exterior limb, declined, but recurved at the apex ; lip spatulate, bifid at both 
ends, and elevated on the filament above the other five segments of the corolla; the whole flower of a deep orange 
colour ; filament very long, grocved, incurved; anther broad-ovate, cordate, with a marginal appendice extending 
a little beyond it, but without any other distinguishing character; style filiform, embraced by the groove of the 
filament, but occasionally taking a nearer course, like a suspended thread; stigma funnel-shaped, ciliated; germen 
round, rugose, three-celled; seeds many. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Dr. Wallich remarks, that “ the Globha racemosa of Sir J. E. Smith, Exot. Bot. tab. 117, seems to come 
very near to this species, and to G. orixensis,” Flor. Ind. vol. i. p. 78, in note. “ From Pegue this pretty little plant 
was introduced by Mr. F. Carey, into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it flowers in August.” Roab. Flor. 
Ind. vol. i. p. 77. 
Living plants have been received at the Liverpool Botanic Garden, from both Dr. Wallich at Calcutta, and 
Dr. Carey at Serampore; from one of which the present figure was taken in August 1822. 
REFERENCES. 
1. Intire flower. 
2. Germen and processes, style and stigma. 
3. Anther, and part of filament. 
4, Bracte. 
