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from which it differs in the perianth-seg- 

 ments being united at the base, and there 

 adhering to the ovary. It is a smooth 

 perennial, with a rod-like leafy stem from 

 a somewhat bulbous base ; the leaves are 

 long and grass-like ; and the flowers small 

 white, in a long terminal panicle. [J. T. S.J 

 STENIA. An epiphytal genus of orchids 



I belonging to the tribe Yandece. The only 

 species, S. pallida, is from Demerara, and 

 is a stemless herb without pseudobulbs, 

 having oblong leaves narrowed at the 

 base, recurved at the apex : and solitary 

 radical yellow flowers about two inches in 

 diameter. Inhabit it very much resembles 



| Maxillaria, but it may easily be distin- 

 guished from that genus by the labellum 

 not being articulated with the foot of the 

 column. [W. B. H.] 



STEXOCARPU S. A genus of Proteacece, 

 having a tubular calyx, cleft at the back ; 

 the four sepals bear each a sessile anther;' 

 the style is filiform, with an oblique 

 stigma; and the seed-vessel a linear or cy- 

 lindrical follicle containing several seeds 



Stenocarpus Cunninghami. 



having a wing at their base. They are 

 mostly large shrubs, one species however, 

 S. Cunninghami, being a lofty tree, its flow- 

 ers dark-yellow or orange, in axillary or 

 terminal umbels, and its leaves leathery, 

 entire or sinuate. The species are natives 

 of Xew South "Wales, Tropical Australia, 

 and Xew Caledonia. [R. H.] 



STEXOCHTLTJS. A genus of Myopora- 

 cere, containing several species, natives of 

 Australia. They are shrubs with alternate 

 leaves, and solitary sometimes double 

 axillary pedicels ; the calyx is five-parted, 

 and the lobes are imbricate at the base ; 

 the corolla is irregular and funnel-shaped ; 

 the four didynamous stamens are ex- 

 serted ; the style has a simple apex ; and 

 the two-celled ovary has two pendent 

 ovules in each cell. [W. C] 



STENOCHL.ENA. An acrostichaceous 

 genus of ferns having dimorphous fronds 

 (the sterile ones pinnate, the fertile con- 

 tracted and either pinnate or bipinnate) 

 borne on scandent rhizomes. The pinnse 

 have a marginal gland near the base on 

 the upper edge, and the veins form narrow 

 costal areoles (sometimes hardly distin- 

 guishable), from which parallel forked 

 veins run out to the margin. One tropical 

 species abounds in India arid the Pacific 

 Islands ; another is met with in South 

 Africa raid Madagascar. The costal areoles 

 are often apparent near the apex of the 

 pinna? when they are not evident near the 

 base. [T.M.] 



STENOCORYNE. A genus of orchids 

 belonging to the tribe Vandem. Itisan epi- 

 phytal herb, with elongated quadrangular 

 pseudobulbs, solitary cartilaginous leaves, 

 and the flowers in a close raceme, orange \ 

 I spotted with brown. The scape is pro- 

 duced from below the pseudobulbs. The 

 genus is nearly related to Bifrenaria, but j 

 differs in having two distinct glands at ! 

 the base of the caudicles. The only known 

 species is from Demerara. [W. B. H .] [ 



STENOGASTRA. A small genus of | 

 Gesneracece confined to Tropical America, j 

 of which S. hirsuta (Gloxinia Mrsirta of | 

 the gardens) is the type. The calyx is 

 small and obliquely bell-shaped, the tube 

 of the corolla very narrow and cylindrical, 

 the ovary surrounded by five distinct j 

 glands, and the stigma mouth-shaped. S. j 

 hirsuta is a stemless perennial, with almost 

 radical leaves, several clothed with Ions: | 

 | hairs, ovate or oblong in shape; whilst 

 the pedicels are one-flowered, and bear 

 pale blue flowers. [B. S.] j 



STENOGYNE. The name of a genus of ! 

 Labiata?, in which the calyx has the three 

 upper teeth smaller than the others ; the [ 

 corolla is about as long as the calyx, curved, 

 hairy inside, the upper lip erect and 

 i notched, the lower of three nearly equal 

 and entire divisions : and the style ends in 

 two equal lobes. The species are herba- 

 ceous, natives of the Sandwich Islands, 

 with hard crenate leaves, and flowers in 

 the axils of small awl-shaped bracts. The '■ 

 name, derived from the Greek, alludes to 

 the narrow lobes of the style. [G. D.] 



STENOLOBIUM. A small genus of 

 Bignoviacece, not to be confounded with the 

 Stenolobium of Bentham, a leguminous type 

 noticed below. It is peculiar to Tropical 

 America, but S. stans (Bignonia or Tecoma 

 stans of botanical writers) has become 

 naturalised in many parts of the Old 

 World, and has for many years been an 

 inmate of our hothouses. It is reported to 

 be diuretic. The Stenolobiums are erect 

 bushes, somewhat resembling the ash in 

 foliage. When young the leaves are often 

 unifoliolate, but in older plants tbey are 

 generally pinnate, and the leaflets deeply- 

 serrated at the margin. The flowers are 

 placed in rich clusters at the ends of the 

 branches, and they are invariably yellow, j 

 more or less deep in colour. The calyx is 

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