GLOBBA (native Molucca name). SYN. Sphaerocarpus. ORD. Scitamineae. A genus of about twenty-four species of pretty stove herbaceous perennials, natives of India and the Malayan Archipelago. Flower yellow or pinkish, very curious-looking; calyx three-cleft, tubular; corolla with a slender tube. Globbas are of easy culture in a warm, moist stove; and may be readily increased by dividing the roots. GLOBBA alba (white). fl. disposed in a loose, pendent, terminal panicle; calyx white, tubular; corolla lobes buff, lanceolate, the lip having a red, crescent-shaped blotch; bracts white, oval, obtuse. l. distichous, distant, sessile, horizontal, oval-elliptic, tapering to an acuminate apex, dark green above, dull brown beneath. Stems erect; rhizome horizontal, subterranean. 1885. (B. H. 1885, 20.) GLOBBA albo-bracteata (white-bracted). fl., calyx white; corolla yellow; flower-stem terminating in a lax panicle, of which the axis, branches, bracts, and bracteoles are white. l. seven or eight to a stem, ovate-lanceolate, green, 4in. to 5in. long. Stems brownish-purple, 2 1/2ft. high. Sumatra, 1882. GLOBBA atro-sanguinea (dark red).* fl. yellow, with scarlet bracts, disposed in dense terminal racemes. In blossom the greater part of the year. l. alternate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, deep glossy green. Stems about as thick as a goose quill, much crowded, 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. long, gracefully arching on all sides. Borneo, 1881. An elegant plant. SYN. GLOBBA coccinea. (B. M. 6626.) GLOBBA coccinea (scarlet). A synonym of GLOBBA atro-sanguinea. GLOBBA Schomburgkii (Schomburgk's).* fl. golden-yellow, with a bright orange-red base to the lip; panicle drooping; lip narrowly cuneate, with a broad, retuse, truncate end. August. l. ellipticovate or lanceolate, with slender acuminate tips, contracted into a short petiole above the vagina. Stems tufted, 6in. to 12in. high. Siam, 1864. (B. M. 6298.) GLOBBA sessiliflora (sessile-flowered). fl. yellow; spike whorled; lateral segments of corolla longest; bracts lanceolate, withering. August. l. lanceolate, acuminate. h. 1 1/2ft. Pegu, 1807. (B. M. 1428.)