42 D. Prain — Notes on the Moxhurghiacese, [No. 2, 



5. Stemona javanica, Engl, Natiirlich. Pflanzenfam. ii. v. 8, 

 (1888). 



Eoxhurghia gloriosoides Zoll. Plant. Jav. n. 2441 (1850) ; Hassk. 

 Neuer Schluess. Herb. Amboin. 275 (1864) ; not of Jonea. 

 B. javanica Kuntb. Eunm. v. 288 (1850). 

 Java : Malang ; in woods near tbe sea, Zollinger ! 



There is no doubt as to the validity of thia species, which was proposed by 

 Kunth and has been since accepted by Engler. Besides having thinner, smaller, and 

 fewer- veined leaves than 8. tuberosa, its flowers, which are noted by Zollinger in his 

 field-note as dark-red, are about one-fifth the size of those of that species. 



6. Stemona Curtisii Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. vi. 298 (1892). 

 Malay Peninsula : Penang ; Waterfall, Curtis ! Perak ; Batu Gaja, 



Scortechini ! Lumut, Ridley ! 



7. Stemona sp., ? nov. 



Rooehurghia gloriosoides Kurz in Herb. Calcutta, bardly of Jones, 



Burma : Pegu j Laelo Cboung, Kurz ! 



Leaves all alternate, oblong, 7-10 in. long, 3 in. wide, base truncate. 



This has narrower and firmer leaves than is usual in 8. tuherosa, though some of 

 our examples of that plant have leaves very like those of the present one. In texture 

 and also in shape its leaves accord best with those of 8. minor, but they aie much 

 larger and the stem is much stouter than in that plant. But for the fact that the 

 leaves on a stout main -stem are alternate, a character never met with in true 

 Stemona tuherosa, the identification of Kurz might almost have been accepted. 

 Meanwhile, however, this is one of the oases where it is safer to doubt the determina- 

 tion, and when fuller material is available it may be necessary to recognise this as a 

 distinct species, 8, Kurzii. For the present it must be accepted as, at least, a dis- 

 tinct variety of 8. tuherosa, 



8. Stemona minor Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. vi. 298 (1892). 

 Boxburghia gloriosoides Wigbt, Icon. t. 2061 (1853), not of Jones. 

 B. gloriosoides var. minor Tbw. Eunm. PI. Zeyl. 432 (1864). 

 S.India: Malabar, Wight \ Ceylon: Trincomali, Glenie. 



The relationship of this to 8. tuherosa is much the same as that of the prece- 

 ding form ; the most salient character being again that here all the leaves are alternate . 

 This plant, however, further differs in being distinctly smaller in all its parts, and 

 there is no doubt that Sir Joseph Hooker is amply justified in considering it a 

 distinct species. 



9. Stemona Griffithiana Kurz in Journ. As* Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 

 109 t. 10 (1873) ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. vi. 299. 



{Gen. Nov. near Boxhurghia'] Griff. Journ. Trav. 149 (1847). 

 Indo-China : Burma ; valley of tbe Irrawaddy from Ava to Pegu. 



The description given by Kurz, which, so far as reference to coloration goes, has 

 been followed in the Flora of British India, deviates somewhat from the original 

 account written by Grijffilth in tbe field. Most of the specimens- which Kurz had 



