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1. S. liastata. R, 



Leaves opposite, hastate, doArny. 



A large shrub or small tree, a native of Silhet, where it is 

 called Hattee-kana (Elephant's ear,) from the shape of the 

 leaves. Flowers \n April and May, and the seed ripens in 

 June and July. 



Young shoots villous, somewhat four-cornered. Leaves 

 opposite, petioled, hastate, lobate, downy, particularly un- 

 derneath, about six inches long. Petioles nearly as long as 

 the leaves, downy and channelled. Stipules none. Panicles 

 terminal, coryuibiform, decussate, villous. Bractes like the 

 leaves, but small, and diminishing- fast toward the top, or 

 extreme divisions of the panicle. Calyx campanulate, five- 

 cleft. Segments sub-lanceolate, permanent and remaining 

 coloured. Corol with a long, slender, recurved tube. 

 Border of five, nearly equal, spreading, oblong segments. 

 Filaments ; two pairs, inserted into the tube of the corol a lit- 

 tle within its mouth, long, coloured, smooth, various in their 

 direction accordin"- to the lenoth of time the flower has been 

 open. Anthers incumbent. Germ ovate, four-cornered, seem- 

 ingly four-celled, with one ovulum in each lobe, attached to 

 the concave side of the wings of the parietal fungiform, recep- 

 tacle, meeting in the centre, but not luiiting, hence seem- 

 ingly four-celled. Style the length of the corol. Stigma 

 bifid ; lobes acute, spreading. Berries shorter than the 

 calyx, four-lobed, one, two or three of the lobes abortive, the 

 fertile ones obovate, smooth, glossy, deep purple, and succu- 

 lent, one-celled. Seed solitary. Perhsperm none. Cotyledons 

 obovate, fleshy. Radicle roundish, inferior. 



2. S. indica. Lamarck. Encycl. t. 79. f. 1. 1606. 

 Shrubby, straight. Leaves verticelled, lanceolate. Pani- 



cle<i terminal. 



Brahm»mee, Brahmwn?/y?/shtika, &c. Sanscrit names. 

 Bemj. Brahman-patta, or Bam?m hatlee. 

 Siphonanthus indica. Linn. 



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