ROXBURGHIACEAE wall. (Rqxburghia.) 287 



strata, I>asi abrapte attenuato-stipitata ; stipite basi truncata 

 multisquamuloso ; squamulis byaliao-crassiusculis, stipitem 

 ct basim seiniais imbricatim obtegentibus *). Tcsta crassius- 

 calo-coriacea, apicc in rostrum, basi in stipitem incrassataia 

 coatiauata ; meaibraaa iaterna tcnuis, testae adnata. Albu- 

 men clliptico oblongum, utrinque rotundatum, carnosum. Em- 

 bryo tenuitcr subclavulatus, rectus, iaclusus, basilaris, albu- 

 miae quadraplo brevior. S/rffrutices scaudentcs, volubilcs, 

 incrmes, radice e tuberibus carnosis fusiformibus. Folia 

 opposita vel verticillata, rarissime sparsa, petiolata, multi- 

 nervia, nervis venulis transversis conjunctis (inde folia 

 frausvcrse striatula), mcmbranacca. Pedunculi axillares 

 (axillares, petiolares et foliures Hlume), \-pauciflori. Flo- 

 res mag/ii. 



1. R. GLORIOSOIDES Jones in Roxb. Corom. 1. 26. t. 32. 

 Willd. Spec. 2. 321. Poir. Encycl. 6. 389. Suppl. 4. 722. Roxb. 

 Flor. lnd. 2. '234. (Rumph.5. I. 129.) Spreng. Syst. 2. 214. Rlume, 

 Enum. 1.9. Wall. Cat. no. 5156. Kunlh in Ollo et Dielr. Garienz. 

 1839. no. 29. Foliis sparsis, rarissime suboppositis, ovato-ob- 

 longis, leviter cordalis, acuminato- siibmucronatis, 7-9-nerviis; 

 pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis , racemoso-l-3-floris ; perigonii 

 foliolis exterioribus 13-, inlcrioribus 15-nerviis. R. viridiflora 

 Smilh. Exot, Rot. 1. p. 111. /. 57. Wall. Flani. rar. 3. 29. /.282. 

 R. gloriosa Pers. Syn. 412. Roi. Mag. t. 1500. Stcmona tubc- 

 rosa Lour. Coch. 2. 402. (fide Wall.) -— India orientalis (Silbct, 

 Cbittagong, Circar mountains, ad littora sinns Siamcnsis). ^j — 

 Radix c tubcribus pluribus cylindraceo - fusiforniibus carnosis 

 6-12-|)oIlicaribus laevibus composila. (Roxb.) Caulcs pcrennes, 

 scandentes, laeves ; ramis teretibus, gracilibus, laevibus. Folia 

 sparsa, rarissime subopposita, petiolata, ovato-oblonga, levitcr 

 cordala, acuminata, submucronata, integerrima, 9-11-nervia, ner- 

 vis subtus valdc prominentibus, venulis transversis simplicibus 

 subparallelis anastomosaiitibus, membranacea, cpunctala, glabra, 

 nitida, 5^-poIlicaria, infernc 2| poll. lata (4-6-pollicaria, 3-4 

 poll. lata Roxb.). Pctioli 2-2^-pollicares, semiteretcs, inferne 

 canaliculati, basim versus incrassali, glabri. Pedunculi axillares, 

 solitarii, racemoso-2-3-flori, longitudine petioli; floribus pedicel- 

 latis, subsecundis, cernuis, bipollicaribus et longioribus; brac- 

 teolis pedicellos stipantibus lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 4 lin. 

 et longioribus. Perigoninm 4-phyllum, campanulatum, glabrum; 

 foliola crucialim opposila (duo exteriora, duo iuteriora), subac- 

 qualia, ovato-lanceolata, angustato-acuminata, apicc acutata, sub- 

 canaliculato-concava, berbacea, viridia, intus albida i.bique picla 



) Fuuiculus elongatus, apice in arillum stupposum solutus. Endl. 



