MONANDROUS PLANTS, 359, 



blossoms during the rainy season. Dr. Buchanan has also found it in 

 the Rungpur distri6l, and sent plants to this garden, where they blossom 

 throughout the rainy season. 



4. Globba Hura. R. 



Leaves ovate-oblong. Raceme terminal, erect ; pedicels tern, three-flowered. 

 Anthers witli a membranaceous coronet. 

 Hura siamcnsiiim. Koenig in Retz. obs. 3. p. 49. 



5. Globea pendula. R. 



Leaves lanceolate. Racemes terminal, compound, greatly longer than the 

 leaves, -pendulous. Anthers bicalcarate. 



Found by Mr, W. Roxburgh, wild in the forests .of Pn'i/r^ o/" /F^/^5 

 Island, 



6. Globba radicalis, R. 



Panicle radical. 



Found by Mr. W.Roxburgh indigeneus in the forests of Chittagong, 

 and from thence introduced into the botanic garden at Calcutta, v.'here it 

 flowers from April, to the end of June. About the same time the herbace- 

 ous stems, and leaves appear. There is a constant succession of the 

 flowers from the extremities of the lengthening branches of the panicle, 

 for nearly two months. The whole panicle, peduncles, both common and 

 partial, bra6tes, and flowers, (except the, deep, but bright yellow lip or 

 lower wing of the filament,) are of a lively blue-purple colour, and un- 

 commonly beautiful. 



