1068 BENGAL PLANTS. [Stemona. 
Order CXXXY. ROXBURGHIACEA, 
Herbs with twining, rarely erect stems from a perennial root- 
stock. Leaves alternate or opposite, petioled, 3-more-nerved; 
cross veins parallel. Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, on axillary, 
filiform, 1-flowered or few- and lax-flowered peduncles. Perianth 
inferior or half-s a petaloid; segments or lobes 4, 2-seriate, 
Pe 1. Stamens 4, at the base of the perianth or almost hypo- 
; filaments rather thick, free or connate below ; anthers 
dorsifixed ; cells 2, parallel or divergent ; dehiscence longitudinal, 
introrse. Carpels 2, connate in a superior or half-inferior, 1- 
locular ovary; ovules 2 or more, erect or pendulous; stigma 
terminal, sessile, small, entire or didymous. Frwit a capsule, at 
length separating into 2 valves. Seeds oblong; testa coriaceous ; 
embryo long, in the axis of the hard albumen. 
959. Stemona Lour. 
Herbs with twining stems; root of fleshy tubers; leaves oppo- 
site, alternate, or whorled, ees 3-9-costate. Flowers solitary, 
or few and subracemose. Perianth segments 4, lanceolate, many- 
nerved, inferior. Stamens 4, at pogynous, more or less connate 
in a ring; anthers linear, erect; connective produced in a very 
long, linear-lanceolate, erect appendage. Carpels 2, connate in a 
ee, compressed, l-locular ovary; ovules 2 or more, erect; 
funicles long or short; stigma small, sessile, pointed. Fruit an 
ovoid or oblong, compressed, few-seeded, 2-valved capsule. Seed 
erect, ovoid or oblong, terete, grooved, beaked ; funicle bearded ; 
testa thick ; embryo rather long; radicle close to the hilum 
S211. aie TUBEROSA Lour.; F. B. Lo vr 298. Roxburghia 
sot 
A considerable climber. 
Order CXXXVI. LILIACEZ. 
Herbs, very rarely shrubs or small trees, with fibrous roots or @ 
creeping rootstock, or a bulb or corm. Leaves cauline or radical, 
me ee 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely by abortion 1-sexual, 
» 80 or geminate’ or umbellate, spicate, 
racemose or paniculate or casi: bracts usually small, scarious; 
