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Staminodes similar but more elliptic. Lip short, oblong, cuneate, widely 
retuse, the terminal points obtuse. Filament fairly stout. Anther-spurs 
4, triangular, acuminate, equal. 
Luzon, Province of Cavite, Mendez Nunez, Bur. Sci. 11)55 Mangubat ; Mara- 
gondong, Merrill 1)168: Province of Rizal, San Mateo, For. Bur. 181)6, 3259 Ahern's 
collector ; Bosoboso, Merrill 281)1): Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat, (Warburg 
11/069, fide Schumann sub G. heterobractea) , Merrill 1)232: Province of Laguna, 
Jalajala, ( Meyen , fide Schumann sub G. ectobolus ) : near Manila, (Barthc, fide 
Gagnepain sub G. Barthei) : Province of Pangasinan, Merrill 28V). Panay, San 
Jose, Yoder 11). 
Amboina, Celebes, Batchian, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago; also 
as a weed of cultivation in Penang, Singapore and Java. 
It is quite impossible to break up this species into the various “species” 
founded by Schumann and Gagnepain. I can not find a reliable character in any 
of the Philippine plants that I have seen, which justifies separating specifically 
any of the forms. G. ectobolus Schum. has for its chief character the production 
of bulbils in the axils of the stem leaves, a character which I have also seen in 
typical G. marantina introduced by Javanese from Java into Penang. G. Barthei 
Gagnepain, which 1 take to be the typical Philippine form, has broader leaves 
and a stouter stem than has the form that occurs occasionally as a weed in 
the Straits Settlements. 
There is a considerable degree of variability in the pubescence of the various 
parts of the specimens. In some, at least, short processes arise on the corolla- 
tube and lobes, hardly long enough to be called pubescence. I have long ago 
pointed out the valueless character of the production or nonproduction of bulbils, 
for I have hardly met with any Globba in any abundance which does not oc- 
casionally produce them. G. marantina, which was for many years a weed in the 
Botanic Gardens in Singapore, and of which Schumann says that he had never 
seen flowers, eventually produced a few flowers, although almost every plant 
produced bulbils only for a number of years. Probably G. strobilifera Zoll. 
(G. Zollingeri Gagnep.) of Java is the same species. 
10. G. ustulata Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France IV 1 (1901) 208, pi. 
7, /. 5-7 j K. Schum. in Pflanzenreich 1. c. 158. 
An herb 40 cm tall, with ciliate sheaths. Leaves lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, petioled, slightly pilose, velvety beneath, ciliolate, 15 cm long, 4 cm 
wide; ligule 1.5 to 2 mm long, the margins villous. Panicle sessile, 
dense, 5 cm long. Bracts orbicular or elliptic, 1.2 cm long, black at the 
tips, bulbiliferous. Flowers two or three together on a short peduncle, 
black or purple. Ovary smooth, glabrous. Calyx 7 mm long, 3-toothed, 
the teeth mucronate. Corolla-tube 1.2 to 1.4 cm long, upper lobe with 
a long muc-ro 1 mm long. Anther .4-spurred, spurs acuminate. 
Busuanga, Calamianes Islands, (Marche 227 B), in Herb. Mus. Paris. 
Indo-China. 
I should reduce this species also to G. marantina L. from the description, for 
I have seen no specimens, were it not for the statement that the flowers are 
black or purple, a most unusual, if not unique character in the genus, and for the 
mucronate upper petal. 
