NEW HEBRIDES AND LOYALTY ISLANDS. 2r 
the petiole fissured longitudinally, terminated by a semi-ovate firm 
ligula; free portion of the petiole very short. Spike one and a-half 
feet long, proliferous at the base, the offshoots bearing leaves one to 
two inches long. _Bracts red, not crowded, oblong or oval, somewhat 
cuneate, moderately spreading, one to one and a-half inches long, and 
a third to a half inch broad, or the lower ones still larger. Calyces 
very slender, one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, tubular, with 
three short acute teeth, not conspicuously slit downward. Corolla 
half exserted ; its tube gradually widening at the summit, its lobes 
narrow and acute. Labellum roundish, measuring hardly two lines. 
crisp, above bearing two raised lines and some short downs; its length 
hardly exceeding that of the limb of the corolla. Filament linear, 
channelled, on the surface towards the summit finely silky. Anther 
cells contiguous, parallel, about one and a-half line long ; the apex of 
the anther protracted into a minute roundish membrane. Style ca- 
pillary, glabrous. Stigma small, obconic, truncate. Fruit unknown. 
This plant, impressingly beautiful through its long red spikes, is 
placed here provisionally into the genus Guillaina, the identification 
resting ou the examination of the remnants of a few shrivelled flowers. 
Genericly this plant, as well as the original G. purpurata (Veillard, 
Notes sur quelques Plantes interessantes de la Nouvelle Calédonie, p. 4) 
recedes materially from Globba, in the completely three-celled ovary, 
the ovules being attached to the parietal part of the septa. So far as 
observations could be instituted on existing material, the New Cale- 
donian typical plant diverges from that of Santo in thicker leaves and 
bracts, in longer lobes of the flowers, and especially in the presence of 
an accessory tubular bract, which frequently embraces two flowers, 
and is sometimes binerved and bilobed, thus indicating a confluence of 
two bracteoles. The only specimen of Dr. Veillard’s plant, which 
could be compared, was presented with numerous other New Cale- 
donian plants to the Melbourne Phytographic Museum by Madame 
Lénormand, of Vire, Calvados—a lady who for many years has most 
generously and enthusiastically promoted the progress of the scientific 
knowledge of plants, and especially those of the marine Floras. 
Canna Inpica (Linné, spec. p/., 1.) 
Tana. The variety with red flowers. 
ORCHIDEAE. 
SPATHOGLOTTIS PacIFICA (G. Reichenbach in Seemann’s 
Flor. Vitiens., p. 300.) 
EraManca. Only a few flowers occur in Mr. Campbell’s collec- 
tion; these seem not to differ from those of the Fiji-plant above, 
