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intensely liispid scabrous. Wall Cat. 4089 5 Bhune Mus. Bot i. p. 10 5 Bm. 

 PI. Jav. Bar. 215 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 562 ; Triana in Trans. Ltnn. Soc, 

 xxviii. 77. S. paradoxa, Naud. in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 321. S. "begonise- 

 folia, Blume Mus. Bot. i. p. 11 ; Naud. h c. 322 ; Triana L c. - . 



PiKANG ; Wallwh, Griffith, Maingay. Malacca ; Maingay. Singapoee ; Walllck 



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Lohht — DiSTRiB. Malaya, 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, very unequal at the base, pinnate-nerved, with much rufous 

 or brown hair on both surfaces, ciliate, hardly serrulate. Calyx-tube very shaggy. ■P^'' 

 talsl'm,, elliptic, acute. Capstde less than \ in., broad-campanulate, longer than it 3 

 pedicel. Seeds almost epunctate, raphe very strongly excurrent near the top on one side. 



ttt Stemless or almost stemless species (the stem sometimes elongate in S. 



Griffithii). 



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34. S. Walllchil, Betm. PL Jav. Bar. 215 ; leaves pmnate-nervea ovu^ 

 acute, capsule short subcampanulate elabrous crowned by a prominent wmte 



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towards its top. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxviii. 77. S. Rheedii, Wau. 

 Cfl^. 4096; W. 8r A. JVWr. 321. S. acaxiMs, Beddome in Trans. Linn.,^:, 



XXV. 216. ':'. ' 



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South Malabar Ghats. Cocmx, Johnston ; Anamallays, Beddom ; Baba- 

 BOODTJN Hills, Law* *\ . 



Leaves from i to 5 in. often broad or cordate at the base sometimes acu , 

 minutely denticulate or entire, usually puberulous and also with a few ^^^^.., 

 hairs; petiole 0-2| in. Peduncle 1-8 in.; flowers 3-17, crowded, sul)unibeueu, 

 pedicels glabrous. Petals \ in., elliptic, acute, mauve. Anthers not greatly elongai . 

 Capside ^-^ in. exclusive of the margin, shorter than the pedicel.' ' , r 



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ipanulate 



35. S. scapig'era, Dak. in Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot. vii. 673, t. 26 y 

 leaves nerved from near the base ovate or ovate-oblong, capsule ca ^ 

 glabrous crowned by a very nan-ow margin, seeds without raised points o^^^.. 

 rent raphe. Dalz.^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 93: Triana in Trans. Ltnn. Soc-'^^ 



77 



Bombay Ghats, Balzell; Concan and Bababoodun Hills, iaw; Mysore, ^^^^^ 

 Leaves commonly ^-U in., broad or cordate at the base, minutely ^^f^^^'^j^^^l^ 

 glabrous, sometimes glandular puberulous dotted above; petiole often 2 in. ^^^^jg 

 1-3 in. ; flowers 4-10, crowded, subumbellate ; pedicels glabrous or n.ea^^y^^' ^^n 

 ^1 in., elliptic, acute, mauve. Anthers much elongate. Capstde ^-^in., ^^^^\. ^nd 

 the pedicel— The peduncle pedicels and petioles frequently become succttien ^ ^^ 

 much thickened. Generally resembling S. Wallichii and closely allied to it. - j^ 



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36. S. rotundifolla, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 216 ; le^^^^^fS 

 lar or ovate nerved from near the base, peduncles 1-4-flowered, raceme S^- 

 "or nearly so, capsule short hemispheric glahrous crowned hy a narrow ^c .^ 

 seeds with raised large subtubercular points raphe not excurrent. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvVu. 77 ■ n^^rl To VI r«/^ Dr- t. 169. 



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South Deccak 



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minutely puberulous. dotted on both surfaces'; petiole ^-1* in. P^i'f'l^^%L^^i^ 

 Petals I in., orbicular-obovate, mauve. Anthers short for tfie genus, ^1^.^ 



truncate. Capsule ^-^ in., shorter than the pedicel. 







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