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X X Anthers lo»g-acuminate. 

 + Caulescent herbs. 

 f Stem short and very thick, scared. 

 S. Bran'disiana, Kz. Thoung-ycon. 



Quite glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, decurrent, 4-7 inches long. 



f f Stems clonyate, slender and leafed. 

 S. PICTA, Korth. Jfergui. 



S. MACULATA, lloxb. Tenusseiim, between 3000 and 5000 feet. 



5. angustifoUa, Roxb. 



Herb, 1-1. J foot liigh, sparingly luiiry. Leaves 3—1 inclies long, more or less 

 cordate at the base, decussately opposite. Capsules glabrous. 



var. a genuina. All parts spiiukled •with hairs. Leaves bristly serrulate, 

 usually ovate and equilateral, above elegantly white-blotched. 



var. /3 cinaculata, Roxb. As preceding, but the leaves uniformly green. 



var. 7 anguslifolia, Roxb. Leaves usually acute or acuminate at the very 

 unequal base, not blotched, but often purplish coloured beneath. 



S. SECUNDA, Wall. Tavoy. 



As preceding, but leaves whorhd. 



+ + Scapigerous stemless herls. 

 S. viOLiEFOLiA, IT. f. Maulniain. 



Leaves 5-7-plincrved. Calyx -l-toothcd. Petals oblong, acuminate. 



Saucopyramis, WaUich. 



Flowers 4-merous. Stamens 8. Capsule 4-celkd, included in flie succulent 

 calyx. Succulent glabrous herbs. 



S. lAXCEOLATA, "Wall. Ava Hills and Nat-toung in ilartaban 



S. grandijlora, Griff. at GOOO to 7000 feet. 



X X Berry sappy or coriaceous, irreyularly rupturing. 



MEDIXILLIEJi:. 

 Orary wholly, or only its angles, adnate to the calyx, (he convex or conical top free. 

 Stamens conform, or the al/ernuting ones reduced to curiously-shaped staminodes, inserted 

 on the limb or thrust into the cavities formed by the adhesion of the ovary-angles to the 

 calyx. Anthers usually recurved. 



X Stame)is very unequal. 

 AxPLECTRDM, A. Gray. 



Anthers 4 or 8, the connective usually not appendaged in front, shortly spurred 

 behind. Ovary 4-crestcd at tlie top. Panicles often axillaiy. 



A. (JIelastoma) cyaxocaupum, R1. Hills East of Toung-ngoo. 



A. (?) BARBATCM, Wall. Tcnasscrim (Chappcdong). 



Kurz adds from the Nicobars : 



Ot-VNTHEUA Xicobarensis, T. ct B. Katchall and Great Nicobar. 



** Placentas insevted to the base of the axial angle or to the walls of the cells. 

 Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. 



ASTROXIEJ;. 

 Ovules numerox's. Berry coriaceous or succulent, many-seeded, the seeds minute. 



