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Kempferia.] SCITAMINEZ:. 1037 
A herb very like the preceding, but panicles larger and 
more branched. 
930. Globba Linn. 
Herbs with creeping rhizomes and erect stems; leaves oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate. Flowers in terminal panicles, rarely in 
spikes; bracts usually deciduous; buds often replaced by bulbils. 
Sepals connate in a funnel-shaped, 3-lobed calyx. Petals 3, con- 
nate in a corolla with tube longer than the calyx; lobes ovate, 
subequal. Stamen 1 perfect; filament long, incurved, with 2 
dorsal appendages ; anther oblong; connective simple, winged or 
spurred, produced beyond the cells; lateral staminodes petaloid, 
contiguous to the corolla-segments; lip deflexed. Carpels 3, con- 
Anther not winged :— 
Leaves glabrous beneath orixensis 
Leaves finely pubescent beneath ophioglossa 
Anther winged on each side by a bifid, quadrate membrane......bulbifera 
2130. GLOBBA ORIXENSIS Roxb.; F. I. i. 78; F. B. I. vi. 201. 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; E. Bengal, Mymensingh. 
A herb with perennial rootstock and annual leafy stem 
1-2 feet high, - 
2131. GLoppa oPHIOGLOSSA Wight; F. B. I. vi. 202. 
Chota ur. 
A herb with leafy stems, 2-3 feet high. 
2132. GLoppa BULBIFERA Roxb. ; BLL 7Os.2. BE vise. 
Chota Nagpur. 
herb with leafy stems, 1 foot high; lower bracts 
bulbiferous, 
931. Kempferia Linn. 
Herbs with short stems or stemless ; rootstock often tuberous ; 
leaves few. Flowers spiked, on radical scapes or at the apex of 
the leafy stem. Sepals 3, connate in a short, cylindric calyx, 
which splits Spathaceously. Petals 8, connate in a corolla with a 
long, slender tube; lobes equal, usually spreading. cage 1 
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