The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Globba (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 73, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

G. 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.) G. 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.

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