A new arrangement of the plants of the monandrian class usually called Scitamineae / by William Roscoe.

  • Roscoe, William, 1753-1831.
Date:
1807
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Credit: A new arrangement of the plants of the monandrian class usually called Scitamineae / by William Roscoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This alteration will excite the less regret, as the other Linnaean species of Globba are very different plants, and will proba- bly be referred either to some of the present genera of ilfo- nandriay or will form new genera not yet described. The hete- foireneous assemblao’e of which the Diandrian genus of Globba now consists, cannot in the present rapid progress of the science long remain united. ])ut whilst the Monandrian genus Globba will thus necessarily exclude many of the plants at present erroneously enumerated as species, it will admit several others of which specimens exist in Sir Joseph Banks’s and Dr. Buchanan’s collections; and among the rest the Hiira Siamemium of Retzius; a plant which it has been hitherto found impracticable to reduce to any determinate genus. For this information I am also indebted to Dr. Smith; from whose further researches, aided by the excel- lent figures of Mr. Sowerby in Exotic Botany, Ave may shortly hope for a full elucidation of this very difficult subject; my ac- knoAvledgments are also due to Mr. Dryander, whose intimate acquaintance with this tribe of plants is well knoAvn, and Avho has done me the honour of perusing the preceding arrangement, since it was read before the Society, and of suggesting several valuable remarks. I'nnlal Oy li. Taylor and Co., 3S, Shoe Lane.