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"beneath, base 5-7-nerved ; petiole short, Flovjers numerous, yellow, in terminal and 

 axillary paniclep, which are twice the length of the leaves. Flower-huds glo^; 

 Calyx li in., bell-shaped, stellate-hairy. Sejfuls ultimately reflexed. P^/aZs exceeding 

 the calyx. -infAers concealed in the hood of the petals. Capsule 1 in., oblong, obtuse 

 covered with obtuse black tubercles. 



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Flowers minute, in rex)eatedly branched axillary or terminal urabeUate 

 cymes. Hepak 5, connate at the base. Petals 5, claw concave, limb witna 

 long strap-shaped 2-fid appendage. StaTuens 10, connate below into a mer^ 

 branous tube, bearing above 6 fertile stamens opposite the petals, ana 

 6 staminodes opposite the sepals; anthers 2-lobed, extrorse. ^^^H 

 sessile, 5-celled ; cells opposite the petals, 2-ovuled ; style entire or 5-lia. 

 Capsule globose, spiny, septicidally 5-valved, valves breaking away irom 

 a central column, cells 1-seeded. Seed ascending, exalbuminous ; coty- 

 ledons folded around the superior radicle, plumule lobed, — DisTRiB. ^^^ 

 45 species, mostly natives of tropical America, a few are Asiatic, and on 

 African. 



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1. B. herbacea, Roxh. Cor. PL I t. 29; M. Ind. i. 619 j herbaceons, 

 unarmed, leaves glabrous ovate acuminate toothed paler beneath, c^^^ 

 covered with small subulate prickles. Wall Cat. 1146 ; W. d; ^- rr\ 

 i. 65 ; WigM Ic. t. 488 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 23. Commersonia nei- 

 bacea, G. Don. Gen. Syst. i. 523. 



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Western Peninsula; not uncommon in the Carnatic, Orissa, and Concan... ^ _, 

 5fe7n herbaceous, unarmed. Leaves 14-24 by | in., base cordate or mounded, i^^ 

 nerved, nerves not glandular; petiole i in. Stijmles linear, eoualling the penp • 

 Inflorescence longer than the adjoining leaf. Sepals linear-lanceolate, reflexed. i>^ 

 of petals subulate, as long as the sepals, puberulous. Fertile filaments very sno ; 

 fltaminodes ovate. Fruit the size of a pea, 5-lobed. . , r 





2. S. crenulata, Wall. Cat. 1150; a tree, branches unarmed, leave 

 glabrous elliptic acuminate, capsule globose glabrous covered ^itn w » 

 hnear-lanceolate spines. R polyacantha. Wall. Cat. 1151 1 B. cataipuoi^^ 

 WaU. Cat. 1152 ? B. echinata, Wall. Cat. 1149 ? 



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 Leaves 4-5 by 2-3 in., coriaceous, leaves 5-7-nerved, rounded ; petiole 2 in., tmcK ^^^ 

 at^both ends. Peduncles short, thinly stellate-hairy, pedicels i"? 5"-» J^'"^5 Altoii 

 middle. Bracteoles equalling the pedicels, persistent, lanceolate. Flower-buas at , 

 5-angular, pilose. Flowers 4 in. diam. Petals stalked, limb cordate with two rou" 

 lobes, apex linear. Ovary ovoid, style short. Capsule 4 in. diam.— The above sy no j 

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3. B. Jackiana, Wall, in Moxh. Fl. Ind. {ed. Careu) ii. 386 ; shrabbj 

 unarmed, leaves elliptic acuminate scabrid above, stellate hairy ^^^^J 

 nerves pilose, capsule globose covered with straight-subulate spines. " , 



Penano, JacX;, &c. t. ii-2Jii»t 



A climbing shrub ; herbaceous portions pilose and downy. Leaves 3-6 by 14 5^^^^ 



entire or minutelv serrated, base rounded ; petiole f in. pilose. Panicles ^p^^^^j^ , jj,^ 



. shorter than the leaves, many-flowered; pedicels capillary, stellate-hairy. ^^^ ,?^,^ 



, deltoid acuminate, spreading. Petals shorter than the sepals.::; Cajp«we 1 ifl- *^ 



:.y. iglabroul, 5-lobed. Seeds black. 



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