298 CLV. ROXBUBGHIACEJI. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Stichoneuron). Seeds oblong, testa coriaceous ; embryo long, in the axis 

 of hard albumen. G-enera 3, species about 8. 



Flowers large ; ovula erect 1. STEMONA. 



Flowers minute ; ovules pendulous . . . .2. STICHONEUEON. 



1. STEMONA, Lour. 



Root of fleshy tubers. Leaves opposite, alternate or whorled, ovate 

 3-9-costate. Flowers solitary, or few and subracemose. Perianth seg- 

 ments 4, lanceolate, many-nerved. Stamens subhypogynous, filaments 

 very short, more or less connate in a ring; anthers linear, erect, con- 

 nective produced in a very long linear-lanceolate erect appendage. Ovary 

 free, compressed ; stigma small, sessile, pointed ; ovules 2 or more, erect, 

 funicles long or short. Capsule ovoid or oblong, compressed, few-seeded. 

 Seeds erect, ovoid or oblong, terete, grooved, beaked ; f unicle bearded ; 

 testa thick. Species 4 or 5, Malayan and Australian. 



1. S. tuberosa* Lour. Fl. Coch. 490; stem twining leafing and 

 flowering at the same time, leaves opposite or whorled rarely alternate, 

 perianth 1^-2 in. long. S. gloriosoides, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 650. 

 Eoxburghia gloriosoides, Jones in Roxb. Cor. PI. 1, 26, t. 32 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 

 234 ; Wall. Cat. 5156 ; Fl. des Serres, ii. t. 22. R. Gloriosa, Peers. Syn. 

 1. 412. Bot. Mag. t. 1500. R. Stemona, Steud. Nom. ii. 475. R. viridi- 

 flora, Smith Exot. Sot. i. Ill, t. 57 ; Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 49, t^282 ; Griff. 

 Notul. i. 29, 31 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 12-16, 62, f. 2. 



BENGAL, SILHET, CHITTAGONG, ASSAM, and the NORTHERN CIRCARS. DISTRIB. 

 China. 



Root of cylindric tubers 6-12 in.; stem woody below, branches terete. Leaves 

 4-10 in., broadly ovate- cordate, acuminate membranous, shining ; petiole l|-2 in. 

 Peduncle 1-2 in., usually 2-fld. ; bracts small, lanceolate ; flowers erect, fetid. 

 Perianth spreading and revolute ; segments lanceolate, acuminate, greenish with many 

 purplish nerves. Stamens very large, erect ; filaments stout, red, deeply grooved in 

 front with crenulate margins ; connective linear-lanceolate, green ; anthers linear, 

 aclnate to the face of the connective at its b ase ; endotheciura becoming free and pro- 

 duced beyond the cells into a subulate point, pollen between waxy and flowery. 

 Capsule 1^ in., ovoid-oblong, 5-8-seeded. 



2. S. minor. Hook. f. stem twining leafing and flowering at the 

 same time, leaves l|-3 in. alternate, perianth f-1 in. long. Roxburghia 

 gloriosoides vw. minor ; Thwaites Enum. 432. R. gloriosoides, Wight Ic. 

 t. 2061. 



MALABAR; on the Pulicat Hills (PPaulghat) Wight. CEYLON; at Trincomalee, 

 Glenie. 



Smaller in all its parts than S. tuberosa, the leaves 1-a 3 in. long, and much 

 broader at the base ; capsule in. long. 



3. S. Curtisii, Hook. f. ; stem twining leafing and flowering at the 

 same time, leaves 4-5 in. alternate, flowers unisexual? perianth about 

 t in. long. 



PENANG ; near the Waterfall, Curtis. 



In habit and forms of leaf this resembles S. tuberosa, but the leaves are alternate, 

 the petiole very long and slender, and the small flowers appear to be unisexual. 



