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DC. prod. 1. p. 464; Spr. syst. 3. p. 113.—Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 54; Pluk. t. 131. 
Jf. 2. and t. 356. f. 1 (bad). 
A very variable species in the shape of the leaves, but easily recognised by 
the long beaks to the carpels. Like most others of the genus, its duration is 
perennial, although flowering the first year, and therefore sometimes errone- 
ously described as annual. : 
* 220. (11) S. radicans (Cav. :) suffrutescent, prostrate: leaves roundish 
cordate, acute, hairy, serrated : pedicels axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, longer 
than the petiole: carpels 5, not rostrate-—Cav. diss. 1. p. 8; DC. prod. 1. 
p. 463 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 120.—Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 69. Malabar. 
An extremely doubtful species, known yet only by Rheede's bad figure ; 
the serratures of the leaves are represented each tipped with a hair, which 
often happens in other species with hairy leaves. On the whole, it is closely 
allied to the following. 
221. (12) S. Mysorensis (Herb. Madr. :) herbaceous, covered all over with 
glutinous hairs: leaves cordate-ovate, acuminated, coarsely toothed ; under 
side more or less velvety or tomentose: pedicels jointed below the flower, : 
axillary, scarcely so long as the petioles, accompanied by an axillary almost 
leafless raceme, usually shorter than the leaves: carpels 5, bicuspidate, some- 
what thickened and tuberculated at the margins, slightly carinate on the 
back.— Wight ! cat. n. 183.—S. hirta, Wall.! L. n. 1855 (not Lam.)—8. glu- 
tinosa, Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 97; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 347 (not Cav.)—8. 
olens, Ham. ! in Wall. L. n. 1874.—8. tenax, Ham. ! Coromandel; Rox- 
burgh. Mysore; Heyne. 
222. (13) S. urticefolia (W. & A.:) suffrutescent, erect, covered all over 
with a short glutinous pubescence, mixed with other longer and more rigid 
hairs: leaves on long petioles, cordate, roundish or ovate, acuminated, ser- 
rated ; serratures rounded and again serrated: pedicels arranged in an axil- 
lary almost leafless corymb, usually much shorter than the petiole, or rarely 
about as long: calyx hairy: carpels 5, bicuspidate.— Wight ! cat. n. 182.—8. 
nervosa, Wall. ! L. n. 1853. e. Trichinopoly. 
_ We can scarcely believe that it is only a variety of S. Mysorensis, but that 
is the only species with which it can be confounded. It is allied also to S. 
urens and S. verticillata, both from the New World. S. nervosa, DC., and 
Wallich’s L. n. 1853. a. and c. (only), is from St Domingo, although culti- 
vated in the Calcutta garden. 
. 223. (14) S. humilis (Willd. :) herbaceous, slender, diffuse: leaves round- 
ish, cordate, acute or shortly acuminated, serrated, sprinkled with stellate 
longish hairs: pedicels jointed above the middle, clothed with horizontal ri- 
gid hairs, slender, axillary, solitary, and rather shorter than the leaves; or 
arranged in longish lax axillary racemes, with small leaves shorter than the 
pedicels : calyx hairy : carpels 5, not beaked, obtuse or sometimes slightly bi- 
cuspidate.— DC. prod. 1. p. 463 (æ and 6) ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 120 ; Wall.! L. n. 
1854 ; Wight ! cat. n. 186.—S. pilosa, Retz ; Raxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 345. 
—S. unilocularis, L’ Her. st. p. 117. t. 56. (bis ).—8. multicaulis, Cav. diss. 1. 
t. 1. f. 6; DC. prod. 1. p. 463; Spr. syst. 3. p. 120.—S. nervosa, Wall.! L. 
n. 1853. b. (not DC.)—Pluk. t. 132. f. 3.— Common. 
We have not seen any specimens eing with the var. y. of Willdenow 
and De Candolle, or S veronicefolia, Lam. ; so that we suspect either some 
mistake in the description, or that it is a species not found in India. We do 
not, however, know Wallich's No. 1853. d, so that it may p be the 
plant in question, although we rather suppose it is a state of the present spe-, 
cies. Plukenet's figure represents pretty accurately the axillary leafy raceme 
of S. humilis, As to S. multicaulis, Cavanilles and Lamarck only say that 
it is tomentose, but De Candolle adds that “ the whole plant is hispid with 
long hairs," so that it is not a distinct species. 
