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j^^^'^ ^'?^i'^u8. bleeds 10-15, the size of filberts, black, smooth; albumen 0; coty- ' 

 iwlonfi thick, fleshy, 5-nerved, plumule developed.— The seeds are roasted and eaten as 



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i S. versicolor^ WalL PL ^s. Rar. i. 48, t. 59 ; leaves peltate digitate, 

 leanets 5-7 oblong acuminate pubescent beneath, calyx-lobes inflexed conni- 

 ▼WJt at the tips. WalL Cat 1129. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Bar. 227. 



BiRMA on limestone rocks, by the banks of the Irrawaddy, near Segaen, WalUck 

 in 1 ^ rrMwZ; thick, bark grey. Branches spreading. Leaflets 5 -7 by 2-2^ 



Pm-t\^'^^'^^' whitish-pubescent beneath; petiole 6-8 in., dilated at the apex. 

 smaUf ^* ^^^^ ^^ *^® branches, erect, shorter than the petioles. Flowers oo, 

 *?/o ' 7 ^^"*' orange-yellow, pedicelled. Calyx i in., campanulate, segments oblong. . 

 « awaaa^ c(?fe/nn curved. $ fl. : ovary pedicelled, 5-furrowei villous : style short, villous, - 

 st^.^a subpeltate, 5-lobed, lobes obtuse. . ^ . / . , 



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Leaves palmately lobed. 



ig.^^^- ^rens, Boxb, Herri. Beng. 50 ; Cor. PL i. 25, t. 24 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 145 ; 

 iZ^ ^-l*^bed velvety beneath, T>anicles erect, follicles armed with sharp 

 5? OQ 5- "^ ^- ^^^^''^ i- 63 ; WcdL Cat. 1120 in part ; i)a/2. & Gibs, Bomb. 

 h/V ^r^^^^ Enum. 29; Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Bar. 227. Miq. FL 

 JJ- ^^^- ^ Pt. 2, 172. Cavallium urens, ^cAo« dc Endl MeleL 33. 



A*^«IfV^*^^^ IjfDiA, Assam, Behar, Eastern and Western Peninsulas, Ceylon. 

 -BroftcA • ^''^®' ^''^-^ ^^^^® papery outer bark, inner fibrous. Trunk erect. 



^12 j^^f spreatiing, marked with large scars. Leaves about the ends of the branches, 

 fmicUr^^ ^^'^ broad, rounded, base cordate, lobes entire acuminate; petiole 6-9 in. . 

 mixed witK^^^' terminal, oo -flowered, glandular-pubescent. Flowers small, yellow, ? 

 •f^^wfi^ in^^^tT^^' ^^^y^ i ^°* ^^^™M campanulate, S-parted, lobes acute, spreading. 

 intermirV cr ^^^*'^^^* ^' oblong, radiating, yellow pubescent, with stinging hairs 

 and eat t ^^"^ ^~^' oblong, black. Yields a colloid gum, and the seeds are roasted 

 f^^mentATl!? ^^.^^ich's herbarium, under number 1120 D. E, F {S. urens), are 



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^eW" T**^®^*' ^^*^- ^or<. ^m^. 50; FL Ind. iii. 153; leaves 5-^ 

 doWnv nr^'if'^^r ^^^ with spreading villi, panicles pendulous, follicles 

 Fl 22 . ^'^"- ^«^- 1136, 2, 3, D. ; W. <ih A. Frodr. L 63 ; Falz. d' Gibs. Bomb. 



W' ^'^ ^'''"- ^^- •^''^- ^«''- 227. 

 KnimS,""^f ™'','' ^^^^^> Bengal and Malabae, and the tropical Himalaya from 



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'»• eaclf xT*^ ^''','^^ ^^'■'^- Branches few, spreading, with large scars. Z^aye* 12-18 

 *-7-lobed 11 ^'^"'escent or thinly stellate-pilose above, base cordate, deeply palmately 

 ^^fy down V * t^"minate, sometimes 3-fid ; petiole as long as the leaf, expanded and 

 ""uch bran,!, , ^^ *°P = stipules lanceolate, acuminate. Panicle 12-14 in., deflexed, 

 ^er« <^ . ' l^^'^y pubescent. Bracts filiform, caducous. Flower-buds globose, 

 f^^ul'ite i'cL * ™'^^'^> ^l^e former most numerous. CaZ^x 4 i"- ^'a"»> broadly cam- 

 f'^lxwe strl ^ "utside, pinkish within, o-Iobed. lobes spreading. Anthers iO. t^rary 



" '£mea E^-f "'^^'^ ,^^2 in., oblong, spr ' •" " '' "- " 



= "'"en bipartite ; cotyledons thin. 



^eaves simple, not lobed, 1-nerved. 



^^^^'■iohes broad, reading. 



*^e puK**??' ^^^^- ^'''•^- ^^'^^ 50 • ^' 



"' aubcoS^t beneath oblong-ovate -^ ,, 



^ornate, panicles soarin^lv branched. '? JFo//. Cai. 1127, t» ix»r< 



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