622 STANLEY A 



Stanleya Nutt. Cruciferae (i). 5 W. U.S. 



Stanleyella Kydherg (Thelyfodium p.p.). Cruciferae (i). i N.Am. 



Stapelia L. Asclepiadaceae (n. 3). 100 S. and trop. Afr., carrion- 

 flowers. Like the Cacti and the fleshy Euphorbias they inhabit arid 

 regions, and exhibit similar swollen stems, the 1. reduced to thorns or 

 scales, standing in 4 ranks corresponding to the usual 1. arrangement 

 in the fam. The green tissue occupies the periphery of the stem, and 

 the centre is full of water storage cells. Fls. large with dull red colour 

 and carrion smell, attracting flies. Corona double. 



Stapfiella Gilg. Euphorbiaceae (A. n. 2). i C. Afr. 



Stapflola O. Ktze. = Demostachya Stapf (Gram.). 



Staphidiastrum Naud. = Sagraea DC. (Melast.). 



Staphidium Naud. =Clidemia D. Don p.p. (Melast.). 



Staphylea L. Staphyleaceae. 7 N. temp. Cult. orn. shrub. 



Staphyleaceae (EP. ; Sapindaceae p.p. BH.). Dicots. (Archichl. Sa- 

 pindales). 6 gen., 20 sp., chiefly N. hemisph. Shrubs or trees with 

 alt. or opp. L, usu. unequally pinnate, slip. Fls. in panicles, reg., 

 5-merous, with the axis forming a cupule and intra-staminal disc. K 5 ; 

 C 5; AS; G (3 or 2), 3-loc. with oo anatr. ov., usu. ascending, with 

 ventral raphe. Capsule. Embryo straight, in rich endosp. Chief 

 genera: Staphylea, Turpinia. 



Staphylorhodos Turcz. Rosaceae (inc. sed.). Gen. dubium. i New 

 Zeal. 



Staphysora Pierre. Euphorbiaceae (A. I. i). 3 W. trop. Afr. 



Star anise, Illidum; -apple, Chrysophyllum; -cucumber (Am.), 

 Sicyos; -grass (Am.), Hypoxis, Aletris; - of Bethlehem, Ornitho- 

 galum; - of night (W.I.), Clusia rosea Jacq.; -thistle, Centaitrea; 

 -wort (Am.), Stellaria, Aster; water-wort, C alii trie he. 



Starch, one of the chief carbohydrates of reserves; if. Edible Products. 



Starr grass, Ammophila arundinacea Host. 



Stasium (Cl.), a stagnant pool formation. 



Stathmostelma K. Schum. Asclepiadaceae (n. i). 8 trop. Am. 



Statice Tourn. ex L. (excl. Goniolimon Boiss.). Plumbaginaceae. 130 

 cosmop., chiefly in steppes and salt marshes. S. Limonium L. (sea- 

 lavender and 2 others, on the coast of Brit. Infl. cpd., mixed, the 

 total infl. a spike, the partial a drepanium. Fls. many, e.g. S. Limo- 

 nium, heterostyled like Primula. 



Staudtia Warb. Myristicaceae. 2 W. Afr. 



Stauntonia DC. Lardizabalaceae. 6 China, Japan. 



Stauranthera Benth. Gesneriaceae (i). 4 Indomal. 



Stauranthus Liebm. Rutaceae (iv). i S. Mexico. 



Staurochilus Ridl. (Trichoglottis p.p.). Orchidaceae (n. 20). i Malay 

 Peninsala. 



Staurochlamys Baker. Compositae (5). i N. Brazil. 



Staurogyne Wall. (Ebermaiera BH.}. Acanth. (i). 45 trop. exc. 

 Afr. 



Staurophragma Fisch. et Mey. Scrophulariaceae (i. i). i As. Min. 



Stauropsis Reichb. f. Orchidaceae (n. 20). 5 S.E. As., Malaya. 



Staurostigma Scheidw. (Asterostigma EP.). Araceae (vn). 5 Braz. 



Stawellia F. Muell. Liliaceae (in), i S.W. Austr. 



Stearine, Cocos. 



