Stemona.] CLV. ROXBURGHIACEX, (J. D. Hooker.) 299 
Of these I have exami i 
short ined three; one is male with the four sta i 
narrow androphore, the other female, with apparently imperfect. stamens mt 
4. S. Griffithiana, K i 
109, t. 10: » Kurz in Journ. As. Koc. Beng. xlii. pt. ii. 
10; stem erect flowering before leafing. Gen. no. eub ZER PA 
Rer Am Martaban and Peru s Gril, Kur 
in, Stem 3-6 in. pi ipa Leaves (of R. tuberosa), 3-5 in., ovate ; petiole 3-5 
pedicels 1 in., strict: owers greenish or dull purple; bracts 4-4 in., lanceolate; 
filaments broad ; Perianth-segments 1 in., linear-lanceolate, acute. Stamens 4, 
Capsule 3 in., Select A gathers yellow, cuspidate. Ovary 1-celled, ovules 6. 
bur flowers only. ; 3-4-seeded, seeds furrowed, aril small white.—1 have seen 
2. STICHONEURON, Hook. f. 
Àn er 101 . . 
rons; eet rigid glabrous or minutely hairy herb; rootstock creeping ; roots 
distichous linear. 2 Angular, sparingly branched. Leaves subsessile, sub- 
rigid, lying clos ~oblong, pinnately 3—5-nerved. Peduneles axillary, filiform, 
of very minute e on: the midrib of the leaf, bearing a subracemose cluster 
campanulate na celled greenish flowers, bracts setaceous. Perianth- 
the bases of the 1 i lobes ovate, subequal, valvate. Stamens 4, united to 
Op convex ; ovule es; anther-cells short, diverging. Ovary half inferior, 
very short, ; Ewe SS namerous, pendulous from the top of the cell, funicles 
S. memb 
Wall, mbranaceum, Hook. f. in Herb. Ind. Or. Colpopod 
mss. in Herb. Griffith.—Indeterminata, Wall. Cat. 9110. papse 
Kaastra : 
"mess, HE Hp ft.  WaALLIOH, GmirFiTH, &c. Bengal, at 
m l- D 
hervules trans ee Leaves 3-6 by 14-24 in., membranous, caudate-acuminate ; 
pedicels 2 in. . flow; parallel ; petiole of flower 4 in. Peduncles 3-1 in. stiff; 
Plant in Rogbur pwers Ae in., yellow.—I follow Bentham in placing this curious 
ts fruit is known st, @, from which it differs in the nervation of the leaves. Until 
na and Croom, position is doubtful. The order itself is heterogeneous, 
ia being sectionally different, and both might well rank as 
Section, 
s of the composite Order Liliacec. 
Orver CLVI. LILIACEJIE. 
with fibrous roots, or creep- 
Flowers bisexual, rarely 
ous in 2 series, rarely 
Herb 
Ing tootstocbs, J, shrubby or subarboreous, 
Wisexnal, Dy "ulbs, or corms. Leaves various. 
or l0-merouge ath herbaceous or petaloid, 6-mer 
Jee, filaments 4 imbricate rarely valvate in bud. Stamens 6, rarely 3 or 
. "dry 3-celled style or connate; ‘anthers oblong or linear, often versatile. 
at angles of thy e l often long, rarely 0 or 3; ovules 2 or more in the 
e cells, anatropous, rarely orthotropous. Fruit a 3-rarely 
“celled l-o 
vations 7 peded capsule or berry. Seeds globose or flattened ; 
; embryo small, terete, surrounded by the horny or fleshy 
d countries. 
albumen 
—(. 1 
enera 187, species about 2500; iu all climates an 
Muscari 
b . 
* 280 ; (B ootanense, Griff. Itin. Notes, 242 ; Notul. iii. 242; & Ic. Pl. Asiat. 
as stated in the 
eri . 
m Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 414), is an Affghan plant, 
