182 /  TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ; Sonerilt. 
3. S. angustifolia. Roxb. 
Leaves opposite, unequally oblong-lanceolar, serrulate, hairy. 
A native of the mountains on the North-East border of Bengal, 
and like the two former species in habit, but the shape of the leaves — 
widely different, and only a little hairy. E 
4. S. moluccana. R. 
Sub-caulescent. Leaves in pairs, entire, bay: one minute and ) 
nearly round, the other unequally cordate. Racemes umbelled. 
A native of the Molucca Islands. | : 
5. S. squarrosa. Wall. 
Steins short, cylindric, marked with numerous stipulary inoffen- 
sive prickles which are deciduous, together with the sub-sessile crowd- 
€d, sub-verticilled, cuneate-lanceolate, serrulate, smooth leaves. 
Growing among ferns on the Khassee mountains, where it is cal- 
led Tearanga. It blossoms during the rains. a 
This little perennial plant rises to the height of from four to six in- 
ches.— Root consisting of capillary fibres.— Stem ash-coloured, about 
the thickness of a crow-quill, erect, marked with large elevated tu- - 
bercles to which the leaves were attached, and innumerable small, 
subulate, axillary sub-erect prickles which together with the leaves ; 
are deciduous leaving the lower portion of the plant naked. They - 
are about two lines long and interspersed with small elevated dots. 
—Branches few, simple.— Leaves of a dark green colour, sometimes 
2 verging towards brown, crowded near the top of the plant, spread- 
ing, somewhat fleshy, slightly dotted, Veinless, scarcely above half 
an inch long , acute, with adpressed, bristly, purplish serratures, en- 
tire toward their base and tapering into a very short flat petiol which 
articulates with the corresponding tubercle of the stem or branch. 
—Stipules, two axillary, opposite, prickles.— Raceme terminal oF 
axillary on a filiform peduncle, two or three times longer than the 
leaves.— Flowers unilateral on short pedicels, large in comparison 
Yih the size of the pe rose-coloured, imbricated — es 
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