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hispid, especially on the angles. Leaves sub-coriaceous, obovate, spa- 

 thulate or oblong, sometimes elliptic, always blunt at the apex and 

 tapering more or less to the base, continuous with the short, wide- 

 cupular, pubescent bristle-bearing persistent stipules ; upper surface 

 reticulate (when dry), scaberulous, olivaceous, strigose ; the lower 

 pale, with spreading hispid hairs on the nerves ; main-nerves about 3 

 pairs, rather straight, faint, oblique; length '35 to '75 in.; breadth 

 •15 to '4 in. Cymes small, axillary, hardly longer than the stipules, 

 4- to 6-flowered. Flowers "4 in long, sessile, with a few small mem- 

 branous toothed bracteoles between them. Calyx small, densely silky, 

 urceolate-campanulate, with 4 long narrow acute spreading lobes. 

 Corolla three times as long as the calyx, salver-shaped, glabrous, the 4 

 broadly ovate teeth silky at their apices. Stamens about as long as 

 the corolla-lobes; anthers oblong, filaments and style equal. Stigma 

 large, transversely oblong. Capsule ovoid or sub-globular, sparsely hispid, 

 crowned by the narrow, reflexed calyx-lobes, 2-celled with a single 

 brown seed in each cell. DC. Prod. IV. 555; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 373; 

 Wall. Cat. 825; W. & A. Prod. Fl. Penins. Ind. 438; Hook. fil. FI. Br. 

 Ind. III. 201 ; Triraen Fl. Ceyl. II. 371. S. artimlaris, Linn. fil. Suppl. 

 119; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I.e.; Wall. Cat. 827; W. & A. Prod. I.e.; Kurz 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877 II. 137. S. scabra, WiUd. Sp. PI. I. 572 ; 

 Roxb. I.e. 371 ; Wall. Cat. 824. S. hirta, Rottb. in Nov. Ac. Berol. 

 1803, 95. S. longicaulis, Wall. Cat. 826. S. avana, Wall. Cat. 828. 

 8. ramossissima, Wall. Cat. 829. S. tuhularis Br. in Wall. Cat. 836. 



In all the provinces : common. — Distrib. British India, Ceylon, 

 S. China, Malaya Archipelago. 



2. Spermacoce scaberrima, Blume Bijdr. 946. Herbaceous, woody 

 near the base ; stems procumbent, much branched, thinner than a 

 goose-quill, 4-angled, the angles with stiff reflexed small white hairs, 

 otherwise glabrous and shining, dark-brown. Leaves olivaceous, coria- 

 ceous, narrowly elliptic, tapering acutely to each end, sessile, upper 

 surface scaberulous, with a very few short white hairs ; the lower 

 paler, pilose on the midrib and nerves ; main-nerves 3 or rarely 4 

 pairs, ascending obliquely, little curved, depressed on the upper sur- 

 face and very prominent in the lower; length. *5 to 1 in. ; breadth "2 to 

 •4 in. Stipules cupular, the mouth with 3 to 7 erect stiff bristles, 

 glabrous. Cymes small, axillary, sessile, 4- to 8-flowered, condensed, 

 •15 to "2 in. in diam. Flowers about '15 in. long, sessile or on very short 

 pedicels, with short filiform bracteoles between them. Calyx oblong, 

 constricted below the mouth, glabrous, the lobes lanceolate, slightly 

 ciliate on the edges, spreading. Corolla not much exceeding the calyx, 

 funnel-shaped, glabrous except for a few ciliae on the edges near the 



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