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parte ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 220, ex parte ; Dah. Sf Gibs. Bomh. FL 03. S. abyssinica, 

 Hochst in Schimp. PL Abyss. 1838. 



Himalayas to Travancore and Eangoon, ascending to 3000 ft. in Khasia. — 

 PiSTEiB. Madagascar, Abyssinia, Java, China. 



^Annual, |~3 ft. high. Stems very slender, much branched, ico/'-rachis bristly, 

 2 V?'/^"^' leaflets ^ in. long, with subparallel edges, bristly mainly on the mi- 

 tobbelow.^^ Flowers 1-G, in close short-peduncled racemes from the axils of the upper 



Qilyx \~^ in, long ; lips acute, entire, with a few- 



leaves ; pedicels short, ascending, 

 short deciduous scattered bristles. 



Joints 4-6, densely papillose on the faces. 



S. greminiflora, Roth; DC, Prod/\ ii. 323; stems not bristly, 

 leaflets small 4-12, flowers in pairs in tbe axils of tbe leaves, calyx-lips equal, 

 coroUa yellow. S. sensitiva, WalL et TF. % A, loc. ett. ex parte, 



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(ascending to 1-3000 ft,) to Ceylon and Tavot.— Disteib. Java, N. 



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. ^^^^^f- J^^^t^it of the last. Leaflets obtuse, with parallel sides, ^-| in, long, the 

 onstles of the edge and midrib more copious and longer. Calyx | in., with a few 

 deciduous bristles ; both lips entire, acute. Corolla about twice the calyx. Joints 

 4-b, very turgid and papilL 



ose, 



h' H ^" c* ^^^^^^^^y upper nodes congested into dense heads, leaves and calyx more 

 wisuj S. conferta, Sni. ; DC. loc. cit. S. capitata, Pcsv. Journ, Bot. i, 121, no7Z 

 ^^^^^ b. hispidissima, Zolling, GenccsJc. Arch, iii. oQ. 



sm 11 ?o P^'P'i^ea, Hook. BoL Mag, t. 4283 ; stems not bristly, leaflets 

 au 12-24, flowers in sublax peduncled axillary racemes, lower calyx-lip 

 «florter, corolla pui'ple. S. laxiflora, Benth. PL Jungh, 211. 



, plains of CoNCAN. 



linea^^i^^' ^^^^^ very slender, \-Jl ft. high. Xea/-rachis 1-2 in. long; leaflets 



rachi^' *~V°v ^°"^' ^\PP^^ ^ith ^ long awn and furnished with a few bristles on tho 



from tlT ^}^^^^ midrib. Flowers 6-12, in copious short-poduncled secund racemes 



ne axils of the upper leaA'es ; pedicels cernuous ; bracteoles acute or obtuse, 



^H«ffi ^^^■S'^ i-f i"- ^ong ; upper lip obtuse, recurved, lower subacute, both with- 



Corolla little exscrted. Jomts of pod 10-12, reticulato-venose, not. 



Ottt bristles, 

 papillose. 



4. S. 



Wp lollop ^*' -^^^^- '^ii-^eioJotim, 111, ^1 

 ^.3iii ,^^ flowers in copioiislv mnicled secund 



yellow. 



Ind. Or. t. 243 



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Plain s of GoNCAN, Stocks, BalzelL ^ , 



festir r ^2^^^^^' 2-4 ft. high, the stems densely clothed throughout with doflexed 

 inidrih p -^^^^ linear, 3_iiin. long, with a few bristles in the edge and subcentnc 

 only tL 1 ^^^^^^ ^-2 in. long; dichotomously forked, forming a long thyrsoid panicle, 

 clothed .,7^^^. ^^^"^^tended by a leaf; pedicels ascending. Calyx % in. long, densely 

 lanceol V ^*™^*^ bristles ; upper lip broad, obtuse, recurved ; lower much smaller, 

 Pillose ' ^^^^®* Corolla twice the calyx. Joi7its 10-12, reticulato-venose, not pa- 



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Calyx membranous, its veins not so close and distinctly anastomosing. 



leaflets 4 flT ™™*' ^«^^ 



echinS . ' ^""^^^ ill short 

 !<=^iiiulate. Lalz. &■ Gibs. 7i 



tely bristly. 



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A£nl!Ii°^ CoNcAN, SiocJcs, Dalsell ; Dekkan, near Poonah, Jacque^nont. 

 ■ iMflAf^^'^ diffuse, -with very slender stems, 1 ft. or less high. im/-rachis 1 in. 

 ' /=4iiois membranous, oblanceolate-oLlong, obtuse, §-* in, long, minutely bristly 



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