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3. SURATTENSIS, Linn. Herbaceous, erect, covered with small 

 recurved prickles; stipules semicordate ; flowers pale-yellow. 

 Malabar Hill. 



4. PANDURIFORMIS. Herbaceous, 6 to 8 feet high, stem covered 

 with rigid-spreading hairs ; leaves cordate, unequally toothed, 

 upper side hispidly tomentose, under with a soft dense tomentum ; 

 pedicles axillary, very short, one-flowered ; involucel leaves 8, 

 spathulate; capsule ovoid-pointed, very hairy. At Surat. Syn. 

 H tubulosus, Cav. ; H pilosus, Roxb. in E. I. C. IVIus. t. 672; 

 H. velutinus ? DC. Prod. 



5. CANNABINUS, Linn. Stem glabrous, prickly ; leaves pal- 

 mately 5-partite, glabrous ; segments lanceolate acuminated ser- 

 rated ; fruit nearly globose, acuminated, very hairy. The common 

 "Ambaree" cultivated for the flax, which its bark yields; the 

 leaves are also eaten as a pot-herb. 



6. VITIFOLIUS, Linn. Leaves roundish cordate, toothed or 

 crenated, with 5 lobes or angles, upper side nearly smooth or 

 tomentose, under softly tomentose ; leaves of involucel 12, subulate ; 

 carpels hairy, compressed at the back into a short wing. At Mai- 

 wan. Syn. H obtusifolius, Willd. ; H truncatus, Roxb. Hort., Beng. 



7. H PUNCTATUS, Dalz. Suffruticose 3 to 4 feet high, scarcely 

 branched; leaves unequally 3-lobate (middle lobe very long), 

 crenate dentate, with pellucid dots ; pedicles solitary axillary, longer 

 than the petiole; flowers pale rose-coloured, very small; calyx half 

 divided, divisions acuminate, all the younger parts glutinous and 

 pubescent ; capsule ovoid apiculate, scarcely longer than the calyx ; 

 seeds black, muricated. Broach Collectorate ; rare. 



8. ScANDENS,Dalz. Mss. Stems long, subscandent,unbranched 

 slender; leaves palmately 7-lobed, lobes narrow acute, dentate, 

 glabrous ; flowers axillary, solitary, small, one inch, pale-yellow 

 with a purple bottom. Coast of Kattywar. 



9. HIRTUS, Linn. Shrubby; leaves ovate acuminate or cor- 

 date, strongly serrated ; pedicles axillary, longer than the leaf; in- 

 volucel leaves 5 to 7, subulate, hairy, shorter than the calyx ; flowers 

 rather small, white, Common in the North Concan. Syn. H. 

 phoenicens in Wilid. ; H rosa malabarica, Kcenig. 



10. H MICRANTHUS, Linn. Shrubby, rigidly erect; leaves 

 ovate or roundish, acutely serrated, rough with bristly hairs ; pedi- 

 cles longer than the leaf ; involucel leaves 7, setaceous; flowers 

 small, seeds covered with long white, silky hairs. In the Deccan, 

 Kattywar, and the Kaira district, in hedges. Syn. H. rigidus, Linn. 



11. H HEPTAPHYLLUS, Dalz. and Gibs. Herbaceous, erect, 

 4 to 5 feet high, covered over with scattered prickly hairs ; leaves 

 on longish petioles, palmately 5 to 7-divided ; leaflets lanceolate 

 serrate, attenuated at both ends ; pedicles axillary solitary, as long 



