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. Stemless. Leaves less than 1 in., ovate, often acute, entire, ciliate but scarcely 

 Berrate, 5-nerved from the base or the two upper nerves from the midrib ; petiole 

 l-lj in. Peduncle \-2\ in., 1 -4-flo vered. Petals I in., mauve, elliptic, acute. An- 

 thers long, narrowed upwards but scarcely acuminate. — Near 8, nwltsfoUa, and 



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42. S. heterostemon, Naud, in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 326, xvi, 

 t. 18, f. 4 ; glabrous or nearly so, leaves unequal, stamens 3 with longer fila- 

 ments and purple anthers somewhat produced at base 3 with yellow anthers not 

 produced^ capsule broadly funnel-shaped sessile. 



Malacca; Griffith, Lobb, Cuming, Singapoee; Mainffai/. ^Distuib, Malaya. 



StcTns attaining 18 in., much branched, with many lateral racemes. Leaves 2~ii ^^-i 

 elliptic, acuminate or acute, broad often unequal at the base, entire, with 5-7 main 

 longitudinal nerves; petiole |-1J in. Eacemes on short peduncles, elongate in iruit, 

 10-20-flowered. Seeds with raised points, raphe excurreut the whole length ofthe seea. 

 —The sessile broad funnel-shaped capsules readily distinguish this species. Theleaves 

 are sometimes puberulous subpuLescent on the nerves, and sometimes show spots on 

 the upper surface. This species is reduced to S, obliqica, KoriL Ferh. Nat. (xescn- 

 Bot, p. 250 by Triana and probably correctly : but S, obliqua Korth. is classed as tn- 

 androus by all who quote it : cf. Miq. FL Ind. Bat, i. pt. i. 563. 



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43. S. Bensoni, Ilooh.f. in. Bot. Mag. t. 6049; glabrous Mow, pe^ 

 uncle upwai-ds and raceme hairy, stamens equal, anthers all yellow not proaucea 

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Raised in London from seed sent from the Malabar Ghats by Col. ^^"?^^°' - .-4 

 .This plant seems exactly S. speciosa (No. 20). The change of habitat ^ 

 forcing in rich soil in an English stove may have developed the three stamens usua j 

 suppressed in the genus (?). . *,*. ^ 



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S. bullata. Griff. Nottd. iv. 675, from Malacca, is not i^l^^^^fi^^.^^'/^S 

 'ans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 77) thinks it may be a Driessenia, but the terminal pan 



liiLiiur lu AlloTnorpnia, "^ «1 in 



glaberkima, Am. in Hook. Bot, Maq, ii. 307. The specimen thus nam.,, 

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We have seen no other. uncrVnt 



leaves | in. elliptic acute entire 3-nerved 



racemes 



from the base rusty shortly P^^^*:^ iggg 

 mes lateral 2-4-flowered on peduncles 



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weet teeth.— Texasserim or Andamans, Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 2295). 

 S. MACXJLATA ; Bheede's plant (Hort. Mai. ix. t. U) usually referred 

 lata is certainly not that plant; it may bo No. 20 S. speciosa, Zenk. 



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An erect glabrous herb ; stem quadrangular. Leaves V^^^'^^^i.^T' ^r neax\j 

 ceolate, serrulate, 3-nerved. Flowers in small clusters, pedicelled "^,^^. 

 fiessile, axillary and terminal, small, rose-purple. Calyx-tvhe gla'"'°"^ " ^< 8, 

 midal, 4-winged ; limb very short, 4-toothed. Petah 4, ovate. -^^"^ j,t 

 •equal ; anthers oblong, scarcely produced at the base, connective ^PP.^gjg'ona ; 

 the base with a spur. Ovary half-adnate to the caljTC, 4- celled ; styie ^^^ 

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