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A 5; G (2 — 5), 2 — 5-loc., with 1 erect anatropous ovule in each loc. ; 
raphe ventral. Schizocarp. Seed with endosperm. Genera : Stack - 
housia, Macgregoria. Closely allied to Celastraceae. Placed in 
Celastrales by Benth.-Hooker. 
Stackhousieae (Benth.-Hooker) = Stackhousiaceae. 
Stangeria T. Moore. Cycadaceae. 1 sp. Port Natal, S. paradoxa 
T. Moore. See order. 
Stankopea Frost. Orchidaceae (19). 20 sp. trop. Am. Epiphytes 
with large pendulous firs. The labellum is of a very complex shape 
(compare its near relative, Coryanthes), forming together with the 
column, a sort of cage. The mechanism of these firs, is probably 
rather complex, and they require careful study in their native districts. 
In S. tigrina Batem., the handsomest of all, whose firs, are 8 inches 
across, the labellum and column form a cage narrowing towards the 
mouth, and of a most extraordinary slipperiness, which leads to the 
supposition that fertilisation is effected by bees sliding down inside it. 
The base of the labellum is a bucket-like organ, covered with juicy 
hairs. Between it and the column are wide openings which enable 
insects to fly into the bucket. When they come out, finding the 
opening too narrow to spread their wings, they attempt to crawl 
out, and reaching the slippery surface where they can get no grip, 
slide down the cage and so out at the mouth. [For details see Linn. 
Soc. Journ. XXX. 1894, p. 286.] 
Stapelia Linn. Asclepiadaceae (II. 4). 80 sp. S. Afr. — the carrion- 
flower. The chief interest of these plants centres in the fleshy stems. 
Like the Cacti and the fleshy Euphorbias they inhabit arid regions, 
and exhibit similar swollen stems, the leaves reduced to thorns or 
scales, standing in 4 ranks corresponding to the usual leaf arrange- 
ment in the order. The green tissue occupies the periphery of the 
stem, and the centre is full of water storage cells (see p. 167, and 
compare other succulents). The firs, are large, with a dull red 
colour and carrion smell, attracting flies to their aid in fertilisation. 
The corona is double. 
Staphylea Linn. Staphyleaceae. 7 sp. N. temp. Often grown in 
shrubberies. The capsule is large and bladdery. 
Staphyleaceae. Dicotyledons (Archichl. Sapindales). 6 gen. with 
20 sp., chiefly N. Hemisph. Shrubs or trees with alt. or opp. leaves, 
usually unequally pinnate, stipulate. Firs, in panicles, regular, 5- 
merous, with the axis forming a cupule and intra-staminal disc. K 5 ; 
C 5; A 5; 0(3), 3-loc. with co anatropous ovules, usually ascending, 
with ventral raphe. Capsule. Embryo straight, in rich endosperm. 
For details see Nat . PJi. Chief genera: Staphylea, Turpinia. 
United to Sapindaceae by Benth.-Hooker, placed in Aesculinae by 
Warming. 
Statice Tourn. ex Linn, (inch Goniolimon Boiss.). Plumbaginaceae. 
130 sp. cosmop., chiefly in steppes and salt marshes (p. 169). S’. 
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