STAUNTONIA 



STEIRONEMA 



3233 



berry globose, finally splitting open. About 10 species, 

 China and Japan. 



The stauntonias are beautiful evergreen climbers 

 and well adapted to the soil and climate of the South 

 Atlantic and Gulf regions. Both S. hexaphylla and the 

 related Holbcellia latifolia (known also as Stauntonia 

 latifolid) grow well in the writer's Florida garden, 

 although they are not such very luxuriant climbers as 

 are the allamandas, thunbergias, and bignonias. It 

 requires a few years before they are fully established. 

 They are excellent subjects to be planted on old stumps 

 and on small trees, such as catalpa and mulberry trees, 

 which they perfectly cover in the course of time with 

 their pretty evergreen leaves and their rather insig- 

 nificant but powerfully fragrant flowers. They will 

 not flourish in dry hot sandy soil, demanding for their 

 welfare rather moist shady spots containing a profu- 

 sion of humus. A little commercial fertilizer containing 

 a fair amount of nitrogen and potash will also prove 

 very beneficial. The need of some kind of a stimulant 

 is shown by the plant itself, which assumes a rather 

 yellowish cast in the green color of the foliage. A few 



3685. Stauntonia hexaphylla. 



days after it has received some plant-food the foliage 

 shows a very beautiful dark green color. These two 

 species and the beautiful Kadsura japonica are valuable 

 additions to the garden flora of the southern states. 

 (H. Xehrling.) 



hexaphylla, Decne. Fig. 3685. A handsome vine 

 becoming 40 ft. high : Ifts. oval, about 2 in. long, stalked: 

 fls. in axillary clusters, white, fragrant in spring: berry 

 about 4 in. long, splashed with scarlet. Japan. A.G. 

 12:139. F. W. BAKCLAY. 



STAUROPSIS (Greek, cross and appearance, allud- 

 ing to the shape of the flower). Syn., Fieldia. Orchida- 

 cesf. Epiphytic herbs with leafy stems and without 

 pseudobulbs, grown in the warmhouse. 



Leaves distichous, spreading, leathery, and flat: fls. 

 borne on lateral peduncles in a raceme which is some- 

 times short, simple and rather large- and few-fld., some- 

 times long, lax-branched and quite numerous, small-fid. ; 

 sepals about equal, free, spreading; petals similar to the 

 sepals; labellum affixed to the base of the column, 

 spreading, concave, not spurred, narrow, the lateral 



lobes short, the midlobe rather long-concave and bent 

 in at the tip; column short, thick, not winged and foot- 

 less; pollinia 2: caps, oblong-clavate, not beaked. 

 About 10 species, India and China, Malaya and the 

 Philippines. Treatment similar to vanda. 



lissochiloides, Pfitz. (S.Batemannii, Nichols. Fieldia 

 lissochilmdes, Gaudich. Vdnda lissochilrides, Lindl. V. 

 Bdtemannii, Lindl.). Sts. stout, 1-5 ft. high or more: 

 Ivs. 18-24 in. long, broad, coriaceous: scapes 12-20-fld.: 

 fls. about 3 in. across; sepals and petals yellow, densely 

 spotted with red-purple, purplish crimson beneath; 

 labellum 3-lobed, saccate at base, the side lobes erect, 

 buff-yellow or purple-crimson, the midlobe boat-shaped, 

 purple-crimson. Philippines. B.R. 32:59. J.H. III. 

 52:471. Described also under Vanda. 



luchuensis, Rolfe. Scandent herb with sts. 1 ft. long: 

 Ivs. oblong, very shortly 2-lobed, 4-6 in. long: scapes 

 suberect, 6-16 in. long, bearing a many-fld. raceme: fls. 

 showy, yellow with brown spots; sepals oblong; petals 

 somewhat narrower; labellum fleshy, slightly 3-lobed, 

 saccate at base. Liukiu Isls. j\ TRACY HUBBARD. 



STAUROSTfGMA (Greek, cross and stigma, in 

 allusion to the cross or star-shaped stigmas). Aracex. 

 Tuberous stoloniferous herbs, adapted to the warm- 

 house: Ivs. long-petioled, hastate-cordate in outline, 

 pinnately cut or 1-2-pinnately parted, the pinnae ses- 

 sile, acute : peduncles solitary or several, as long as the 

 Ivs. ; spathe erect, lanceolate, base convolute, gaping or 

 open above; spadix cylindrical: fls. monoecious, all 

 perfect, the male and female contiguous; perianth want- 

 ing: berries subglobose, deeply 2-5-sulcate, 2-5-celled, 

 the cells 1-seeded. About 7 species, Trop. Amer. The 

 oldest name for this genus is Asterostigma. S. con- 

 cinnum, Koch. About 1 % ft- high: young Ivs. reniform, 

 pedately cut, the segms. obovate-lanceolate, the older 

 3-parted, the middle part pinnately cut, elongated- 

 oblong, the lateral parts cymosely bisected or trisected; 

 the petioles marked with pale violet and dark purple: 

 ppathe narrow-lanceolate, very acute; spadix white and 

 purple, the male part dense-fid. ; peduncle livid purple, 

 shorter than the petioles. Brazil. L.B.C. 16:1590 (as 

 Caladium luridum}. Variable. S. Luschnathidnum, 

 Koch (Asterostigma Luschnathidnum, Schott). Lvs. 

 1-2 ft. long, deep green, pinnatifid, broadly ovate, the 

 2 lower segms. deflexed, deeply cut into 3-5 lobes, the 

 remaining segms. 4-6 pairs, sessile, remote; the petioles 

 6-12 in. long, whitish with black-purple streaks: 

 spathe deep green within and speckled with brow\n, 

 reticulated externally, 2-4 in. long, erect, cylindric, 

 acute; spadix cylindric; anthers scarlet; ovaries white; 

 scape similar to the petiole. Brazil. B.M. 5972. S. 

 Rifdelidnum, Engl. About 2 ft. high: Ivs., the adults, 

 3-parted, the middle one pinnately cut, the segms. 

 linear-oblong, sessile, abruptly and rather long-cuspi- 

 date at the apex; the lower parts short-decurrent: 

 peduncles spotted and variegated: spathe yellowish, 

 greenish outside; spadix slender; peduncles many, 

 variegated. Brazil. jr TRACY HUBBARD. 



STEIRONEMA (Greek, sterile threads, referring to 

 the staminodia). Primuldcese. LOOSESTRIFE. Erect gla- 

 brous herbs useful for borders in damp soil. 



Leaves opposite, or rarely whorled, entire: fls. 

 rather large (6-12 lines broad), yellow, axillary, soli- 

 tary or clustered: peduncles slender: corolla rotate, 

 5-parted; lobes erose and often cuspidate, each sepa- 

 rately involute around its stamen; stamens 5, opposite 

 the lobes, with 5 alternating subulate staminodia; 

 filaments distinct, or nearly so; ovary superior, 1 -celled 

 with free central placenta, becoming capsular in fr.; 

 seeds many; style and stigma 1. Differs from Lysi- 

 machia in the presence of the sterile stamens, and in the 

 aestivation of the corolla. About 5 species, N. Amer. 

 All perennials. Offered by collectors of native plants, 

 for colonizing, borders and wild-gardens. 



