132 TRiANDRiA MONOGTNiA. Soncrita* 



3. S. angustifolia. Roxh. 



Leaves opposite, unequally oblong-lancoolar, serrulate, hairy. 



A native of the mountains on ihe 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. 



4. S. mohiccana. R. 



Sub-caulescent. Leaves in pairs, entire, hairy, one minute and 

 nearly round, the other unequally cordate. Racemes umbelled. 

 A native of the Molucca Islands. 



5. S. sq'iarrosa. Wall. 



Steins short, c>Iindric, marked with nnmeions stipulary inoffen- 

 sive prickles whic'.i are deciduous, together with the sub-sessile crowd- 

 ed, sub-verticilled, cuieate-lanceolate, serrulate, smooth leaves. 



Growing among ferns on the Khassee mountains, where it u cal- 

 led Tearans,a. It blossoms during the rains. 



This little perennial plant rises to the height of from four to six in- 

 ches. — RooL cjnsisiing of capillary fibres. — 67ew 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 viith the leaves 

 are deciduous leaving the lower portion of the plant naked. They 

 are about two lines lung and interspersed with small elevated dots. 

 — Branches few, simple. — heaves of a dark green colour, sometimes 

 verging towards brown, crowded near the lop 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 peliol which 

 articulates with the corresponding tubercle of the stem or branch. 

 • — Stipules, two axillary, opposite, prickles. — Raceme terminal or 

 axillary on a filiform peduncle, two or three times longer than the 

 leaves. — Flowers unilateral on short pedicels, large in comparison 

 with the size of the plant, rose-coloured, imbricated during their aes- 



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