2 CXXVI. ROXBURGHIACE E. [ Roxburghia. 
as the perianth, the connective thickened and rugose both at the back 
nd in front between the narrow linear lateral cells, and produced 
beyond them into a long smooth linear appendage. Ovary ovoid, con- 
tracted at the end, with a very obtuse sessile stigma.  Ovules not 
numerous. Fruit not seen. 
N. Australia, Port Essington, Armstrong. : 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander (if correctly determined). 
The Port Essington specimens agree with P. javanica in their alternate leaves and 
small flowers with narrow segments, and their segments are 5-nerved as described by 
Kunth, whilst in Teijsmann’s Ja specimens they are at least 7-nerved, and the 
owers are only two together instead of several in ¢ er leaves are not 
cordate, whilst Kunth describes them as deeply cordate, but in Teijsmann’s specime 
nt 7 9 
the remarkable venation of Roxburghia, and is probably a form of R 
leaves (only the lower ones shown on the specimen) are broad, somewhat cordate, 
an erved. 
es rà 
or occasionally broader and thinner than the 3 outer. Stamens usually 
| gments or almost, rarely quite, 
hypogynous, or rarely slightly perigynous, the 8 opposite the outer seg- 
smaller, and in a few genera reduced to staminodia or 
l scent or a capsule loculicidally or in a few genera 
septicidally opening in 8 membranous coriaceous or slightly fleshy valves, 
: base, or j 
into a woody eaudex, or the stems elongated branching shrubby or even 
arborescent or occasionally climbing. Leaves most frequently in radical 
Se 
