Sida. MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, 473 
7. S. polyandra, Roxb, 
Annual, or biennial, erect, ramous, pubescent, rps cor- 
date, repand-dentate, cuspidate. Stipules _bristle-shaped. 
Flowers solitary, drooping, sub-polyandrous; petals reflex. 
Cupsules five, two-valved, from three to four-seeded, — 
A native of Coromandel, from thence introduced into the 
Botanic garden by Dr, Berry, where it blossoms during the 
cool season. It is in general annual, though sometimes the 
root, and lower part of the stem remains alive, and throws out 
-hew branches the second year. ‘ 
Root often biennial, or more. Stem erect, sith ‘numerous, 
somewhat expanding, nearly straight, round branches, from 
the base to the top; all the tender parts clothed with much 
_yery soft pubescence; height of the whole plant, in a good 
soil, about six or seven feet ; the whole decays annually down 
to the root, or nearly so, Leaves alternate, long-petioled, cor- 
date; margins repand-dentate ; apex long, ne slender, with 
a sashes obtuse point; from two to eight inches long, and 
from one to seven broad. Siipules subulate, and generally 
coloured. Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, near 
the apex jointed, and then so much recurved, as to make 
the flowers droop while expanded, general length two or 
three inches. Flowers large, yellow, remaining expanded 
through the day, Petals reflex. Filaments. about fifty, 
very straight, united at the very base only, and there the 
_ short tube is hairy on the outside. Authers reniform. Germ 
five-sided, hairy. Styles five, rather longer than the stamina. 
Stigmas headed, but small and smooth, Capsules five,much 
_ longer than) the calyx, each terminating ina sharp, single, 
conic horn, until ripe, when it splits.in two on both: sides, 
from the apex to the base, in fact, completely two-valved, 
and one-celled. Seedgthree or four in each capsule, ob- 
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