THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 89 
our forests on rocks, or in damp spots, often in great abundance. 
The genus occurs in the Himalayas and Burma, less commonly 
in other parts of India, anc, except for one possibly introduced 
species, is absent from Ceylon. They are abundant all over the 
Malay Peninsula and Siam, Sumatra and Borneo, becoming 
rarer further east. 
The species, thouzh somewhat variable, are tolerably easily 
distinguished and classified, though if is not always easy to 
identify some of those that have been described on account of 
the authors having often omitted to describe important parts of 
the flower. Thus Miquel rarely described the anther-spurs, the 
best character for classifying the species, while Baker in the 
Flora of British India while paying due attention to this char- 
acter lays some stress on the presence or absence of bulbils, 
which are often produced from the axils of the bracts. This 
character however is absolutely worthless. Any globba grow- 
ing in a sufficiently wet spot especially near a stream will pro- 
duce bulbils sometimes completely replacing the flowers with 
them. In two species G. marantina and G. bulbilifera it is true 
that bulbils are invariably produced in the lower bracts, but all 
the species may at times bear them also. An important charac- 
ter also is the calyx, and as specimens are often met with in 
which the corolla is fallen away, this organ which remains on 
the fruit is very useful in identification. Sometimes it is regu- 
lar and tubular with three equal points, sometimes dilated up- 
wards or again curved with two large and one small tooth or 
there may be no trace of teeth or lobes. 
Those who have not seen globbas in pienty growing wild 
might be puzzled by odd forms which sometimes occur in which 
the inflorescence is borne on leafless stems. Miquel’s G. aphylla 
is probably one of these, perhaps a sport of the very common 
G. panicoides. Plants also with branching stems occur, but are 
much varer. 
§ APLANTHERA. 
Anthers spurless, Flowers yellow, 
Gl. Wallichti Baker. Flor. Brit. Ind. p. 202. 
About 2 feet tall, the lower sheathing leaves dotted with 
purple pubescent or hispid. Leaves lanceolate acuminate rather 
