H. C. Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. 



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ROXBURGHIA. 



Stemona. Loureiro FL Cochin. 404. Ubium polypodi- 

 oides. Rumph. Hb. Amboyn. 5. t. 129. 



letrandria Monogynia, Roxburghiacecc, LindL* 



Char. Gen. — Perianthium biseriatim 4-sepalum. Stamina 

 4, antheras adnatae, connectivis ultra loculos longe productis 

 cuspidatae, mediantibus loculis ad bases cuspidum liberifactis 

 efFetis intus productis cohaerentes. Ovarium 1-loculare; 

 ovula 00, erecta, anatropa, placentis 2 basilaribus lateralibus 

 affixa. Stylus 0. Stigma subpennicillatum. Fructus siccus, 

 1-locularis, bivalvis. Semina funiculata, funiculis vesiculari- 

 bus vel stuposis. Albumen copiosum. Embryo axilis in parte 

 inferiore albuminis, plumula intus rimam recondita. 



Herbae perennes, scandentes. Radices ? tuberoses. Folia 

 scepius opposita, e basi plus minus cordata ovato -acuminata ^ 

 costata venis pluribus primariis, venulisque transversis has 

 connectentibus pulcherrime striata. Flores axillares, soli- 

 tarii, vel bini in pedunculo, magni, striatic foetidi. Fructus 

 2jerianthio persistente siiffultus, margine utroque sulco exara- 

 tus. 



The observations I have made on R. viridiflora regard 

 chiefly the stamina, pistillum and embryo, the first having 

 been entirely misunderstood by many; the last as detailed 

 by Dr. Lindley, tending in my opinion to disturb the na- 

 tural relations of the genus. 



I have ascertained from observation at all periods, that 

 the real structure of the stamina is what I have attempted 

 to describe in the generic character. And indeed, this is 



* The practice of permitting a Botanist's name to be attached to a 

 family, of the definition appended to which he is not the author, 

 appearing to me to be very objectionable, I have substituted Lindley, 

 the name of the author of the definition, for Wallich. 



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