■ Stemona.-] CXXXIV. ROXBURGHIACE^. 1617 



■ovoid or, oblong, terete, grooved, beaked ; funicle bearded, tesla thick. Roots of 

 -fleshy tubers. Leaves opposite, alternate or whorled, ovate, 8 to 9-rostate. 

 Flowers solitary, or few and subracemose. 



1. S. javanica (of Java), Kunth, Enum. v., 288, var. ? Australiana ; Benth. 

 Fl. Aitstr. vii. 1. A glabrous twiner. Leaves alternate, from ovate to lanceolate, 

 ■acutely acuminate, rounded truncate or shortly tapering at the base, mostly 3 to 

 4in. long, on very short petioles, 5-nerved or when very narrow 3-nerved, with 

 very numerous fine parallel voinlets. Flowers 2 together in the axils, on filiform 

 pedicels of 6 to 9 lines articulate above the middle, with a small lanceolate bract 

 at their base. Perianth-segments narrow-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved, about ^in. 

 long. Filaments united in a short cup round the ovary. Anthers including the 

 appendage nearly as long as the perianth, the connective thickened and rugose 

 both at the back and in front between the narrow linear lateral cells, and 

 produced beyond them into a long smooth linear appendage. Ovary ovoid, 

 ■contracted at the end, with a very obtuse sessile stigma. Ovules not numerous. 

 -Fruit not seen. 



Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander (if correctly determined). 



Order CXXXV. LILIACE^. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely more or less dioecious, regular or rarely 

 slightly oblique. Perianth inferior, with or without a distinct tube, the limb or 

 whole perianth of 6 coloured or petal-like lobes or segments, imbricate in 2 series 

 or the outer ones rarely valvate ; all equal and similar, or the 3 inner ones rather 

 larger or smaller or more united or occasionally broader and thinner than the 

 ■S outer. Stamens usually 6, attached to base of the lobes or segments or almost, 

 Tarely quite, hypogynous, or rarely slightly perigynous, the 3 opposite the outer 

 segments often smaller, and in a few genera reduced to staminodia or deficient ; 

 filaments free or shortly united at the base ; anthers erect or versatile, with 

 2 parallel cells opening inwards or laterally or rarely outwards, or by terminal 

 pores. Ovary superior, 3-celled (imperfectly so in Astelia), with several often 

 numerous, rarely only 1 or 2, ovules in each cell, amphitropous anatropous or 

 rarely orthotropous, attached to an axile placenta. Style usually single with a 

 small terminal stigma entire or obscurely 3-lobed, or in a few genera divided to 

 the base or nearly so into 3 oblong or linear diverging or recurved stigmatic 

 branches. Fruit either an indehiscent berry, or a capsule loculicidally or in a 

 few genera septicidally opening in 3 membranous coriaceous or slightly fleshy 

 valves, or rarely dividing into 3 indehiscent 1 -seeded nutlets, in a few species 

 reduced by abortion to 1 cell or nutlet. Seeds various, the testa frequently black, 

 •crustaceous or thin and adnate. Embryo small or linear, variously placed within 

 a fleshy cartilaginous or hard albumen. — Perennial or rarely annual herbs with a 

 short or tuberous creeping rhizome, or (in genera not Australian) a bulbous base, 

 or the stock growing up into a woody caudex, or the stems elongated branching 

 shrubby or even arborescent or occasionally climbing. Leaves most frequently 

 in radical tufts, or crowded at the ends of the caudex or branches, but sometimes 

 spread along the branches, their sheathing bases distichous, or variously imbricated, 

 ■or scattered, and often persistent after the blade has fallen away, the blade or 

 lamina entire or minutely scabrous-denticulate, usually narrow with parallel 

 veins, flat channelled or terete, rarely broad with distant primary veins and 

 "transverse veinlets. Scapes or flowering stsms or peduncles terminal or rarely 

 :axillary, leafless or with 1 or 2 leaves below the infforesence smaller than the 

 lower ones, and passing into the bracts under the branches of the inflorescence 

 -or pedicels, which are nsiifl.llv i-ocluced to small scales, and sometimes entirely 



