Stemona.] clv. roxburqhuoeje. (J. D. Hooker.) 299 



Of these I have examined three j one is male with the four stamens sessile on a 

 short narrow androphore, the other female, with apparently imperfect stamens. 



4. S. Crriffitlllana, Kurz m Journ. As. Soc. Seng. xlii. pt. ii. (1873), 

 109, 1. 10 ; stem erect flowering before leafing. Gen. Nov. Griff. Journ. 149. 



Btjema ; Ava, Martaban and Pegu ; QriffitA. Kurz. 



Bootsiock stout, hypogaeous. Leaves (of M. tuberosa), 3-5 in., ovate j petiole 3-5 

 in. Stem 3-6 in. Flowers greenish or dull purple; bracts i-^ in., lanceolate; 

 pedicels 1 in., strict; perlanth-segments 1 in., linear-lanceolate, acute. Stamens 4, 

 filaments broad, purple; anthers yellow, cuspidate. Ovary 1-celled, ovules 6. 

 Capsule i in., 2-valved, 3-4-3eeded, seeds furrowed, aril small white.' — I have seen 

 four flowers only. 



2. STICZZONEUXtON, Boole, f. 



An erect rigid glabrous or minutely hairy herb ; rootstock creeping ; roots 

 fibrous; stem erect, angular, sparingly branched. Leaves subsessile, sub- 

 distichous, linear-oblong, pinnately 3-5-nerved. Ped/tmcles axillary, filiform, 

 rigid, lying close on the midrib of the leaf, bearing a subracemose cluster 

 of very minute pedicelled greenish flowers, bracts setaceous. Periamth- 

 campanulate 4-fid ; lobes ovate, subequal, valvate. Stamens 4, united to 

 the bases of the lobes ; anther-cells short, diverging. Ovary half inferior, 

 top convex ; ovules numerous, pendulous from the top of the cell, fnnicles 

 very short. Fruit unknown. 



5. membranaceum, Sooh. f. in Serb. Ind. Or. Colpopodeum, 

 Wall. mss. in Herb. Grrifiith. — Indeterminata, Wall. Cat. 9110. 



Khasia Mts. ; alt. 4-5000 ft. Wallioh, Geiffith, &c. Bengal, at 

 LucKipoEB, J. D. H 4: T. T. 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 3-6 by IJ-ZJ in., membranous, caudate-acuminate ; 

 nervules transverse, parallel ; petiole of flower ^ in. Feduneles f-1 in., stiff'; 

 pedicels 3 in. 5 flowers ^ in., yellow.— I follow Bentham in placing this curious 

 plant in Eoxhurghiaceas, from which it differs in the nervation of the leaves. Until 

 its fruit is known its position is doabtful. The order itself is heterogeneous, 

 Stemona and Croomia being sectionally different, and both might well rank as 

 sections of the composite Order JAliacea. 



OsDEB CLYI. ZiIZiXACES:. 



Herbs rarely shrubby or snbarboreous, with fibrous roots, or creep- 

 ing rootstocks, bulbs, or corms. Leaves various. Flowers bisexual, rarely 

 unisexual. Perianth herbaceous or petaloid, 6-merous in 2 series, rarely 

 4-8 or 10-merous, imbricate rarely valvate in bud. Stamens 6, rarely 3 or 

 fewer, filaments free or connate ; anthers oblong or linear, often versatile. 

 Ovary 3-celled, style 1 often long, rarely or 3 ; ovules 2 or more in the 

 inner angles of the cells, anatropous, rarely orthotropous. Frvdt a 3-rarely 

 1-celled l-or more seeded capsule or berry. Seeds globose or flattened ; 

 testa various ; embryo small, terete, surrounded by the horny or fleshy 

 albumen. — Genera 187, species about 2S00 ; in all climates and countries. 



Mascari lootanense, Griff. Itin. Notes, 242 ; Notul. iii. 242 ; & Ic. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 280; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 414), is an Affghan plant, as stated in the 



