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- * Ceylon, alt. 6000 ft. ; . Thwaites, Walker. 



iS^C7?^s 4-12 in. with many spreading branches. Leaves ^~% in., ovate or narrow- 

 oblong, acute, denticulate, with a few scattered hairs above otherwise glabrous ; pe- 

 tiole 0-^ in. Calyx-tuhe glabrous or with a few lax hairs. Petals \ in., purple or 

 white, ovate, acute. Capside about as long as its pedicel." Seeds with minute glan- 

 dular elevated points, raphe excurrent but hardly overtopping the seed. — S. zeylanica 

 IS only separated from 8, rostrata and S. affinis by the anthers, which (as above 

 stated) are usually ^-^--^ in. long in 8. zeylanica while in 8, affiiils they are usually 

 ^ in. In those cases -w-liere the anthers of an authentic example of 8, ceylanica are 

 actually longer than those of some examples of S. affiniSj we endeavour to fall back 

 on the degree and nature of the attenuation of the anthers, which should be acute in 

 & zeylanica^ acuminate in 8, affinis. The rar. pnmila is more distinct from 8. zey- 

 lanica than are 8. rostrata and 8, affinis, Triana has placed Thwaites' numbered 

 specimens of these species under various others. 



yAn, pumila, Thwaites Enum. 109 (sp.); anthers short-oblong very truncate. '■^'■' 

 ' Var. Walier(B; seed without elevated points, excurrent raphe very much over- 

 topping the seed, being exactly over the top of the seed like a cap. — ^Perhaps a species. 

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5. S. tomentella, Thwaites Enum, 109; bmncTies petioles and Cftlyx- 

 ■hi^ rusty-pubescent, anthers ovate very short, capsule short fuuuel-shaped 

 trigonous 6-ribbed bristly. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxviii. 7o. 



Ceylon; SaiFragam, Thwaites. ^ \ • 



Branched, 10 in, high. Leaves ovate and ovate-oblong, minutely denticulate, with 

 a few scattered hairs above, slightly pubescent beneath. Petals -J in., ovate, acute, 

 ^hite or pale rose. Pedicels as long as or longer than the capsule. 



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' 6. S. Brunonis, Tf\ ^ A. Prodr. 321 ; stem a foot high somewhat 

 stout branched nearly glabrous, leaves oblong-lanceolate lon^tudinally 5-7-nerved 

 Jrom near the base with very rarely one or two fainter nerves from the midrib 

 er up. WiffM HI 94, Ic. t. 1069. ^ 



Sooth Deccajc Peninsula: Courtallum; Wight No. 1142. 

 EUiar Thwaites 



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Stems 4-angled. Leaves U-2.^ ._., 



puberulous dots beneath ; petiole ^-H in. Petals ^ in., mauve-purple, ovale 

 ^^te. Capstdes 4 in., nnrrow-fnunftl-fihaned. with SIX thick ribs, longer t' 



elevated 



The^present species is exceedingly like 8. versicolor or 

 s) may always be recognised by the longitudinal 



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^te. Capstdes | in., narrow-funnel-shaped, with six thick ribs, longer than the 

 P^cels, clustered on the shortened racemes. Seed obovoi 



F>mts raphe not excurrent.- 

 «• a^d/aris, but (as Wight ob 

 nervation of the leaves. 



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Pedonculosa, ThicaUes Enum. 109; st«m 3-10 in. weak rootiuff 

 88, peduncles quasi-terminal very long, capsule ^\ m. funnel-shaptHl 



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shorter than the 

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^KATAucoRE, Quilon ; Wight No. 1 1 1 1 . Ceylon ; tropical ; Thwaites. 

 m,-nn 'f* ^"'^ peduncles glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 1-2* m., ovate or oblong, 

 S» y serrulate, sparsely pilose above minutely dotted beneath; petiole i-U «. 

 ^^f uncles 2-6-flowered. Calvx-tube glabrous or with a few scattered hairs. Petals 

 4 'n., ovate, acute, reddish. Seeds with elevated points, raphe much excurrent on the 

 "■ae near the top. 



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