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Subsequently in his Nixus, he associated Roxburghiacese 

 with his Retose class, in which it will be found in his Introd. 

 Nat. Orders, ed. p. 360, Somewhat later it is to be found 

 similarly associated in his class Dictyogens.* 



M. Endlicher,f places it among the " genera Smilaceis 

 affinia," still however retaining the family name Roxburghi- 

 aceae. SprengelJ refers it to the Smilacese of Mr. Brown. 



The genus appears to me to belong to the class of which 

 Aroidese are the type. It consequently appears to me sin- 

 gular, that no allusion is made to this genus by Schott and 

 Endlicher, in their Meletemata, in which the class Aroideae 

 is considered, or by Blume in his Rumphia, in which the 

 family is noticed in detail. 



There are two British Indian species of the genus, which 

 may be thus characterised. 



Roxburghia gloriosoides, foliis aiternis vel oppositis basi 

 cordatis, fructibus obovatis, seminum exapiculatorum funi- 

 culis celluloso-vesicularibus. 



R. gloriosoides. Dry. in Corom. PI. 129. t. S2. Icon. Roxb. 

 7. t. 67.§ Hort. Kew. v. 2. 348. Roxb. Fl. Indica. 2. 234. 

 Lam. Enc. Meth. 6, 319. R. gloriosa. Pers. Syn. 1. 412. 



Flores straminei venis ochroleucis striati. Sepala acumi- 

 natiora. Filamenta purpurascentia. Loculi antherarum lutei ; 

 connectivorum processus curvati. 



Habt. in Mont. Circars dictis. Roxburgh. 



Roxburghia viridiflora, foliis oppositis basi cordato-ovatis, 

 fructibus oblongis compressis, seminum apiculatorum funiculis 

 apicem versus stuposis. 



R. viridiflora, Sm. Exot. Bot. 111. t. 57. Rees' Cyclop, 

 in loco. Lindl. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. 3. 49. t. 282. R. 

 Gloriosa. Bot. Mag. t. 1500. 



* Elements, p. 236. f Gen. PI. loc. cit. % Gen. Plant. 2. 815. No. 1586. 



§ The drawing in the Cor. PI. differs remarkably from the original 

 one, of which otherwise it appears to be a copy, in the shape of the 

 leaves which are reniform cordate, and not, as in the original, ovate from 

 a subdeltoid base. 



