492 MR. C. H. WRIGHT ON THE GENUS STEMONA. 
2. Folia opposita. 
Pedicelli ad petiolos adnati .. .. 6. S. moluccana. 
” liberi .. a .. @. S. tuberosa. 
3. Folia alterna. 
a. Pedunculi 2-3-flori. 
Perianthii segmenta oblonga, acuta 8. S. Curtisie. 
9 ” lanceolata .. 9. S. minor. 
f. Pedunculi uniflori. 
Folia ovato-cordata _ .. 10. S. javanica. 
», lanceolata vel oblonga. 
Perianthii segmenta angusta .. 11. S. australiana. 
” ” late ovato- 
lanceolata .- . .. 12. S. parviflora. 
1. Stemona Grirritaiana, Kurz, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 
xlii. part 11. p. 109, t. 10; herbacea, erecta, foliis ovatis post 
anthesin productis. 
Herba erecta, glabra. Khizoma crassum. Folia ovata, 3-5. 
poll. longa, breviter acuminata, chartacea, glabra, ‘“sericanter 
nitentia,” nerviis transversalibus pluribus; petiolus 3-5 poll. 
longus. Scapus erectus, corymboso-racemosus, aphyllus, 3-6 
poll. longus; pedicelli 1 poll. longi, stricti; bractea lanceolata, 
acuminata, 3-4 lin. longa. Perianthii segmenta lanceolata, 
viridia vel fusco - purpurea. Staminorum filamenta lata, 
purpurea; anthere lutee, cuspidate. Ovarium uniloculare ; 
ovula 6, lineari- oblonga, erecta. Capsula 6 lin. longa, 
2-valvata, 3-4-sperma ; semina lineari-oblonga, sulcato-carinata, 
subapiculata, basi arillata. 
“ Gen. nov.,” Griff., Journ. of Travels, p. 149. 
Burma: Ava, Martaban, and Pegu, Griffith. 
This species differs from all the others in having its flowers 
produced before the leaves. The ovules are erect, not pendulous 
as stated by Kurz. 
2. S. sessinironia, Franch. et Sav., Enum. Pl. Jap., ii. p. 92; 
herbacea, erecta, foliis verticillatis obovatis vel late ovatis, 
perianthii segmentis late lanceolatis. 
Herba erecta; caulis angularis, subtus nudus. Folia qua- 
ternatim verticillata, sessilia vel subsessilia, obovata vel late 
ovata, apice rotundata, subito brevissimeque apiculata, 1}-2 poll. 
longa. Peduncali axillares vel ex axillis bractearam lancev- 
latarum locum folioram tenentes. Perianthii segmenta late 
lanceolata, 9-nervia, poll. longa, Intescentia nisi basi purpurea. 
