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discovery of the plants af it. It is tj Dr. Smith, who found the ori- 

 ginal specimen of Glohba marantina in the Linnaan Herbarium, that we 

 are obliged for dete6ling, and correcting this error in his description of 

 the plant, in his Exotic Botany. The same plant, I had, till this discovery 

 was made known, cons^idered to belong to an undescribed genus, which 

 I called Colebrookia , in honour of our President, whose knowledge of 

 botany, and the benefit the science has derived from his help, justly 

 entitle him to this distinction ; which by all true botanists is considered 

 the highest reward, and more lasting than even a monument of marble 

 or brass. And I also take this opportunity of thanking Dr. Smith for 

 having (in consequence of his discovering, that my Colebrookia bulbij era, 

 was Globba marantina of Linnceus,) transferred that name to another 

 new genus of East Indian plantsv 



The individuals of this family a:re all herbaceous; of rather small size, 

 (their stems and inflorescence together rarely exceed three feet in 

 height;) and perish down to the root about the month of November. 

 Their leaves lanceolar, (tapering equally at each end;) or lanceolate, 

 (tapering from or near the base;) nearly smooth, and tapering into longer 

 and finer points than any other of the order. In all the species here 

 noted, the inflorescence is terminal, except in the last. The prevailing 

 colour of the flowers yellow; and the lip, or wing of the filament (as in 

 the whole of the order,) the brightest, and most ornamental part. The 

 filament is particularly long, very slender, and much incurved. Anther 

 double, variously appendaged, or naked. The style uncommonly slender; 

 sometimes it passes along a groove on the inside of the filament to the 

 anther ; sometimes it takes a straight, and more diredl.'poui'se, but always 

 passes between its lobes. The stigma funnel-shaped. The capsule oval, 



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