Tab. 5409. 

 STAURANTHERA grandifolia. 



Large-leaved Stauranthera. 



Nat. Ord. Cyrtandrace^e. — Didynamia Angiospebmia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx subrotundo-campanulatus, 5-plicatus, latissime subdecem- 

 fidus, sinubus nempe in dentes productis. Corolla tubo brevissimo ampla, ob- 

 liqua, basi calcarata, apice subquinquefida. Stamina fertilia 4, antheris cordi- 

 formibus cruciatim cohaerentibus. Capsula circurascissa. — Herba Indicu, rami- 

 ficatione caulis et foliorum obliquiiate Glossanthum referens. Eacemi bi-trichotome 

 paniculati, 8-20-Jlori. Benth. in Be Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 278. 



Stauranthera grandifolia. 



Stauranthera grandifolia. Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 57. Br. in Horsf. PL Jav. 

 p. 121, excl. secunda sp. Be Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 278. 



Glossanthus (?) grandiiblius. Benth. in Wall, Cat. n. 6395. 



For the possession of this charming Cyrtanclraceoiis plant the 

 Royal Gardens are indebted to the Rev. C. S. P. Parish, who 

 sent seeds of it in 1862, from plants detected by him on Zwaka- 

 bin, Moulmein, a limestone rock of the country, at an altitude of 

 two thousand feet above the sea-level, in August of that year. 

 In August of 1863 our plants were in perfection both as to 

 foliage and flowers. It proves identical with a plant gathered 

 by Dr. Wallich in Pen an g, and preserved in Mr. Bent ham's 

 Herbarium, and first named by the latter gentleman Glossanthus? , 

 afterwards Stauranthera grandifolia. Mr. Parish also forwarded 

 accurate sketches of the flower. It promises to increase readily 

 from cuttings ; but at present our flowers have afforded no seeds. 



Descr. An herbaceous branching plant, everywhere nearly 

 glabrous, having succulent green terete stems and branches ; the 

 whole about a foot in height. Leaves remarkably large in pro- 

 portion to the size of the plant, often ten inches long, sub- 

 succulent, glabrous and subglossy above, paler beneath, four 

 inches broad, oblong, singularly inequilateral, one side only at 

 the base distended into a large rounded lobe or auricle, and 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1863. 



