TAB 7264. 
‘ STEMONA Cortisi. 
Native of Penang. 
Nat. Ord. RoxpurGcHiaces, 
Genus Stemona, Lour.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 747.) 
Stemona Curtisii; caule gracili volubili, foliis alternis ovatis caudato- 
acuminatis profunde cordatis 9-1l-nerviis, pedunculis axillaribus pauci- 
floris, perianthii foliolis 1 poll. longis roseis, antheris flavis, appendice 
loculis subeequilongo obtuso intus lamellato. 
8. Curtisii, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 298. 
A very interesting plant, as belonging to a most peculiar 
group of petaloid monocotyledons that has been regarded 
as an Order distinct from Liliacex, but the genera of which 
may more properly be regarded as forming two distinct 
sections of that great family, so much do its members differ 
from one another, whilst agreeing in most others with the 
Liliacee. Of this order, Roxburghiacer, the type is 
Stemona tuberosa, Lour., better known as the Koxburghia 
gloriosoides of Sir W. Jones (in Roxburgh’s Coromandel 
Plants, t. 32), and well figured on Plate 1500 of this 
magazine as Roxburghia Gloriosa, Pers. It is a widely 
distributed species in Eastern Bengal, Assam, the Khasia 
Hills, and the Deccan Peninsula, extending into Siam and 
China. It differs conspicuously from S. Curtisii in its 
much larger always opposite leaves, greenish flowers one 
and a half to two inches long, and in the appendages of 
the anthers being yellow-green, elongate-subulate, and 
almost twice as long as the scarlet cells. No other species 
of the genus was known till the late Mr. Kurz, an Assistant 
in the Calcutta Botanical Garden, published his S. Grif- 
jithiana, a Burmese species, with an erect stem, flowering 
before leafing. ‘To these has within the last few weeks 
been added in the recently published Part xviii. of the 
Flora of British India, two other species, S. mnor, 
Hook. f., a native of Malabar and Ceylon, resembling a 
small state of S. tuberosa, but with alternate leaves, and 
Srrrember Ist, 1892. 
