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Stem 6 in.; branches wiry, suLquadrangular. Leaves 1| hj^ in., yith remote 

 shallow crenatures upwards ; petiole I in.— The species is distinguished from JNo. ij) 

 S. rhombifolia Thwaites Ly Triana, and the leaves appear very different. The speci- 

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m, S. tenuifolia, Blume in Flora, 1831, 491; stem attaining a foot 

 glabrous or with a few spreading hairs, leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 strongly seiTate, capsule glabrous with a very wide mouth. Benn, PI Jav. Jutr. 

 211, t. 44 ; Naud. in A7in. Sc. Not. ser. 3. xv. 324 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt.. i. 

 563; Triana in Trans, Linn, Soc. xxviii. 76. .. , .. ?■ 



DisTEiB. Java. 



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 Seeds with raised points, raphe excurrent on one side near the top. 



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 glabrous, leaves linear-spathulate sessile minutely distantly *^?^^® /^^-vijnd 

 entire, capsule ^ in. campauulate naiTOw-cyliudnc glabrous faintly ^^^^ .,^ 

 longer than the pedicel. Xurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 78. ,?; rA" 



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 ^eni 4-8 in., little divided, pubescent or subtomentose upwards. Leaves ^" j^^ 

 nearly glabrous, pubescent on the nerves beneath, usually none of the nerve q 

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 uent. Benn. PL Jav. liar. 216 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. "Oi J^^ 

 in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 78. 



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