Stauranthera
(from stauros, a cross, and anthera, an anther; the anthers cohere in the form of a cross). SYNS. Anomorhegmia, Cyananthus (of Griffiths), Miquelia, Quintilia. ORD. Gesneraceae. A small genus (two or three species) of stove herbs, inhabiting the East Indies and the Malayan Archipelago. Flowers blue, mediocre or rather large, loosely cymose or unilaterally racemose; calyx broadly campanulate and five-cleft; corolla somewhat rotate-campanulate, with a bilabiate limb, the posterior lip bifid; perfect stamens four. Leaves ample, membranous, solitary in the nodes or opposite and stipuliform. For culture of S. grandifolia, the only species introduced, see Klugia. S. grandifolia (large-leaved). fl. 1in. long; calyx pubescent; corolla tube white, tinged with purple and pale yellow; limb pale purple; throat white, with a deep yellow spot on the lower side; peduncles terminating in many panicles. August. l. often 10in. long, 4in. broad, oblong, inequilateral; petioles stout, 2in. to 4in. long. Stems and branches succulent. h. 1ft. Moulmein, 1862. (B. M. 5409; F. M. 272.)