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Awns of ripe carpels equal to or shorter than the calyx- 

 lobes. 

 Leaves tapering at the base, smooth above, downy 



below • ; 9. S. rhombifolia. 



Leaves roundish ovate-cordate, downy above and below ; 



carpellary awns indexed 10. S. grewioides. 



1. S. linifolia, Cav. Diss. i. 14. n. 23. t. 2./. 11. Annual or biennial, 

 with an erect, terete, pilose stern, branched from near the base, l|-2 ft. high. 

 Leaves scattered, on short stalks ; blades linear-lanceolate, varying much in 

 size, entire or rarely minutely toothed ; stipules half the length of the petiole, 

 linear, foliaceous. Flowers stalked, in lax, terminal, corymbose cymes. 

 Calyx cup-like, 5-cleft ; lobes deltoid, pilose. Petals white or crimson, twice 

 the length of the sepals. Carpels 5 or 6, blackish, scarcely beaked, 3-sided, 

 inner sides reticulate ; back furrowed. — S. linearifolia, Schum. and Thonn. 

 PI. Guin. 303. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Barter ! Cape Coast, T. Vogel! Quorra; Accra; Senegambia, 

 rerrottet I Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Bon ! 

 Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! 

 Occurs also in the West Indies and on the north-eastern coast of S. America. 



. 2 - S. urens, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 465. Perennial, with erect or trail- 

 ■fc hirsute branches ; leafstalks as long as the leaves, which are cordate, 

 0v ate, acute, serrate, more or less densely clothed with stellate hairs on both 

 surfaces. Flowers usualby in dense clusters at the extremity of the branches, 

 j£% _ solitary, axillary. Calyx hispid, angular, cup-shaped, 5-cleft ; segments 

 acuminate. Carpels 5, not reticulated, awnless or with short beaks.— 

 • J debilis, Don, Gen. Syst. i. 499. ? S. sessiliflora, Don, 1. c. i. 499. ? S. den- 

 Wora, Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 66. 



Upper Guinea. West coast, Don ! Senegambia, Heudelot I PerrotM ! 

 ™»le Land. Sennar, Kotschy ! Kordofan, White Nile, Pelherick! 

 Lower Guinea. Congo, Burton ! Smith ! 



A widely distributed plant, occurring in the Cape de Verde Islands, Madagascar, the West 

 In <K p erU( Brazil> et( i 



Judging from the description, Richard's S. densiflora belongs here. 



3. S. triloba, Cav. ; DC. Prod. i. 466 ; Cav. Diss.i. t. 1. / 8 and t. 



[i \- /• 1. Suffruticose, glabrous, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves on long stalks, very 

 Enable in form, cordate, palmately 3-5-lobed; lobes ovate, acuminate, 

 J»te ; the central lobe longer than the rest. Stipules leafy, oval-lanceolate. 

 J. lo wers small, on long axillary stalks. Calyx broadly bell-shaped, deeply 

 aiv ided into 5-pointed lobes, which are at first erect, but afterwards become 

 J at ent. Petals whitish, exceeding the calyx. Carpels 8-10, in a depressed 

 2 n S ; glabrous, with a very short beak, directed inwards.-^, permutata, 

 noc hst. PI. Schimp. Abyss. Pavonia crenata, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. 

 *»le Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Roth ! Billon and Petit ! 

 e plant also occurs in various parts of S. Africa. 



*• S. humilis Cav.; DC. Prod. i. 463. A trailing annual or biennial 

 PH with a cylindrical procumbent stem branched from near the base ; 

 ^nches erect, with a few scattered, stellate or simple hairs. Leaves stalked, 

 |***b, acuminate, crenate-serrate, hairy on both surfaces; stipules linear 



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