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Ripe carpels separating from the axis, generally 2-awned at the summit, 

 aud dehiscing irregularly or by a small slit. Seed solitary, pendulous 

 or horizontal ; radicle superior. — Distrib. A genus of about 80 species, 

 most of them being tropical weeds. 



1. S. Mysorensis, W. & A. Prod. T, 59. A sub-erect, sometimes 

 decumbent, herb 1 to 2 feet high, covered with more or less glutinous 

 hairs. Leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrate-crenate, 1'5 to 

 2-5 in. long and 1 to I'S in. broad ; petiole about half as long as the 

 blade. Stipules linear, less than half as long as the petiole. Flowers 

 less than "5 in. in diam., in few-flowered axillary racemose cymes, 

 corolla yellow ; pedicels shorter than the petioles, jointed near the 

 middle. Carpels shorter than the calyx, sub-glabrous, each with a 

 short awn, or awnless. Mast, iu Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 322 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 28. S. hirta, Wall. Cat. 1855, not of Lam. S. urticcefolia, W. 

 & A., 1. c. S. nervosa. Wall. Cat. 1853 E. 8. olens, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 1874. S. glutinosa, Roxb. Hurt. Beng. 97 ; Fl. Ind. iii, 172 ; Wall. Cat. 

 1855, not of Cav. S. tenax, Ham. in W. & A. Prodr. i, 1. c. ; Wall. Cat. 

 1855, E. P. S. fascicidiflora, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i, Pt. 2, 140. 8. radicans 

 Cav. Diss, i, 8 : W. & A. Prod, i, 59. 



A weed by roadsides ; in Perak and probably in the other provinces. 

 Distrib. India, Java. 



2. S. CARPINIFOLIA, L. An undershrub 2 to 3 feet high ; glabrous 



or sub-glabrous ; a few minute stellate hairs on the stems and petioles. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, serrate, 2 to 3 in. long and "25 to "35 in. 



bi'oad ; petioles "1 to '2 in. Stipides subulate, nerved, much longer than 



the petiole. Floivers "5 in. in diam, solitary, axillary ; corolla yellow, 



peduncles as long as the petiole, jointed, minutely bracteolate. Carpels 



shorter than the sub-globose ribbed calyx, glabrous, rugulose, each with 2 



short awns. DC. Prod. i. 4G0. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 323 ; 



Wall. Cat. 1871. S. acuta, Burm. ; Cav. Diss, i p. 15, t. 2, f. 3 ; DC. 



Prodr. i. 461 ; Wall. Cat. 1868, 1, 2. 3, 4, 5 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 171 ; W. 



& A. Prodr. i. 57; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 17; Thwaites Enum. 27; 



Miq.Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt 2. p. 143; Wight Ic. t. 95 ; Bl. Bijdr. 55 ; Wall. 



Cat. 1868 G. S. lanceolata, Roxb. I.e. 175; Wall. Cat. 1868 F. S. stipti- 



lata, Cav. Diss. i. t. 3, f. 10 ; DC. Prodr. i. 460 ; W. & A. Prodr. I.e. 



8. Stauntoniana, DC. I.e. ; 8. scoparia, Lour, ex W. & A. Ic. 



In all the provinces as a weed. Distrib. India and Tropics gene- 

 rally. 



3. S. RHOMBIFOLIA, Linn. sp. 961. An erect under shrub 2 to 3 

 feet high, from glabrous to hoary, stellate-pubescent. Leaves varyino' 



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