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FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS. 
Orper CXXVI. ROXBURGHIACEJE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Perianth inferior, ve 4 Penis seg- 
ments, all nearly equal and similar, imbricate in 2 r tamens 4, 
almost hypogynous; filaments very short, free or akid in i ing ; 
anthers erect, with 2 cells opening laterally or inwards in pe Naa 
8 Ovary free, 1-celled ; ovules several, either erect from the base or 
suspended from the apex of the cavity ; stigma terminal, sessile. Fruit 
a capsule, opening in 2 valves. Seeds several, the funicle bearing as a 
veins and transverse veinlets. Flowers s 2 or more rae on eer 
sedie d in axillary clusters or short racemes. 
Besides the typical genus, the order contains one other one from Japan. 
1. ROXBURGHIA, Jones. 
Perianth-segments several- nerved, lanceolate, acuminate. Filaments 
more or less united in a ring; anthers long-linear, the thickened connec- 
vie produced into a long linear erect aiperdüge. Ovules erect from the 
se of the ovary. Tall twiners, woody at the base. Flowers large or 
xiódóraio-his ed. 
Th genus p . very few species, extending from Australia to Japan. 
1. R. javanica, Kunth, Enum. v. 288, var. ? Australiana.—a glabrous 
axils, on filiform pedicels of 6 to 9 lines articulate above the middle, 
with a small lanceolate bract at their base. Perianth- pam narrow- 
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