298 CLV. ROXBURGHIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 
Stichoneuron). Seeds oblong, testa coriaceous; embryo long, in the axis 
of hard albumen.—Genera 3, species about 8. 
Flowers large; ovula erect . . . . . 1. STEMONA. 
Flowers minute; ovules pendulous . . . . 92. STICHONEURON. 
1. STEMONA, Lour. 
Root of fleshy tubers. Leaves opposite, alternate or whorled, ovate 
3-9-costate. Flowers solitary, or few and subracemose. Perianth seg- 
ments 4, lanceolate, many-nerved. Stamens subhypogynous, filaments 
very short, more or less connate in a ring; anthers linear, erect, con 
nective produced in a very long linear-lanceolate erect appendage. Ovary 
free, compressed; stigma small, sessile, pointed; ovules 2 or more, erect, 
funicles long or short. Capsule ovoid or oblong, compressed, few-se 
Seeds erect, ovoid or oblong, terete, grooved, beaked; funicle bearded ; 
testa thick.—Species 4 or 5, Malayan and Australian. 
1. S. tuberosa, Lour. Fl. Coch. 490; stem twining leafing and 
flowering at the same time, leaves opposite or whorled rarely alternate 
perianth 13-2 in. long. _ S. gloriosoides, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 650. 
Roxburghia gloriosoides, Jones in Roxb. Cor. Pl. 1, 26, t. 32; Fl. Ind. 3. 
234; Wall. Cat. 5156; Fl. des Serres, ii. t. 92. R. Gloriosa, Peers. Syt- 
1.412. Bot. Mag. t. 1500. R. Stemona, Steud. Nom. ii. 475. R. viridi- 
flora, Smith Ezot. Bot. i. 111, t. 57 ; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 49, t. 282; Grif. 
Notul. i. 29, 31; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 12-16, 62, f. 2. 
a BENGAL, SILHET, CHITTAGONG, ASSAM, and the NORTHERN CIRCARS.— DISTRIB. 
aina. 
Root of cylindric tubers 6-12 in.; stem woody below, branches terete. Deme 
4-10 in., broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate membranous, shining; petiole 1-3 ai 
Peduncle 1-2 in., usually 2-fld.; bracts small, lanceolate; flowers erect, € 
Perianth spreading and revolute ; segments lanceolate, acuminate, greenish with er) 
purplish nerves. Stamens very large, erect ; filaments stout, red, deeply grO0** ir 
front with crenulate margins; connective linear-lanceolate, green ; anthers lina’ 
adnate to the face of the connective at its base; endothecium becoming free and PF 
duced beyond the cells into a subulate point, pollen between waxy and flowery: 
Capsule 13 in., ovoid-oblong, 5-8-seeded. 
2. S. minor, Hook. f.; stem twining leafing and flowering at e 
same time, leaves 15-3 in. alternate, perianth j-1 in. long. Roxbuig Ie 
gloriosoides var. minor; Thwaites Enum. 432. R. gloriosoides, Wight ^^ 
ai MALABAR; on the Policat Hills (?Paulghat) Wight. CEYLON; at Trincomalee, 
ene. 
Smaller in all its parts than S. tuberosa, the leaves 11-3 in. long, and muc 
broader at the base ; capsule } in. long. 
3. S. Curtisii, Hook. f.; stem twining leafing and flowering at Kei 
same time, leaves 4-5 in. alternate, flowers unisexual P perianth abo 
ł in. long. 
PENANG; near the Waterfall, Curtis. te 
In habit and forms of leaf this resembles S. tuberosa, but the leaves are altero 
the petiole very long and slender, and the small flowers appear to be unisex?" 
