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root, al! are nearly round and bristly ; height of the whole plant from 

 six tot\vel\eincijes. — ^Xeare* opposite, long- petioled, more or less un= 

 equally broad ovate-cordate, nerved, bristle-serrulate, pointed, surface 

 bullate, and marked wiih numerous small white specks, from the 

 centre of each rises a slender, subulate, bristle ; veins and nerves brist- 

 ly, length from two to six inches, by from one to three broad.— i?fl- 

 cemes a?dllary, spiral, their peduncles as long as the petioles, deeply 

 coloured and hairy. — Flowers springing from the upper convex side of ' 

 the raceme, sliort-pediceiled, red, bristly. -^-Bractes subulate, mi- 

 nute.— Co /j/j; superior, three-sided, and tubular ; mouth three-tooth- 

 ed, permanent. — Petals three, lanceolar, inserted into the mouth of 

 the calyx, alternate with its segments, smooth on the inside, on the 

 outside are frequently found some slender bristles. Sectary of three, 

 laciniated scales round the base of the style.^Filaments three, alter- 

 nate with ihe petals, and about their length. Anthers sagittate, one- 

 dr.rdas long as the filaments, until the fiower has been expanded some 

 time they are inverted within the tube of the c-alyx, afterwards erect. 

 --Germ clavate, three-sided, three-celled; of«/a numerous, attach- 

 ed to their respective receptacles, rising from the axis, exactly as in 

 Osbeckiachinensis. G&rt. Carp.2. 1. 1 26. Si2/le length ofthe stamens. 

 Stigma simple. — Capsules erect, three-sided, clavate; pedicel includ- 

 ed, about half an inch long, three-celled, opening at the apex. — 

 Seeds very numerous, and too minute to admit of my ascertaining 

 iheir internal structure. 



2. S. emaculata. lioxb. 



Ideates opposite, unequally narrow-cordate, acute, bristly, but 

 void of spots, serrulate, ciliate. 



A native of the Khassee mountains on the North-lEast border of 

 Bengal, where it flowers in July, and differs from the preceding 

 species, in the leaves being destitute of the little round white spots, 

 nito which the bristles are inserted, (viz. one in the centre of each 

 spot.) It is also less robust than that plant, with longer peduncles to 

 the racemes, which are sometimes leaflet-bracted at the middle. 



The flowers^ and seed vessels are alike. 



