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less funnel-shaped, usually velvety or puberulous outside, the limb 
4-6-lobed, induplicate-valvate. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes, 
inserted at the throat; filaments very short. Ovary 2-celled, with 
a solitary erect ovule in each cell; style 2-cleft. Berry crowned 
by the calyx-limb, 1- or very rarely 2-seeded, the endocarp perga- 
maceous, adnate to the pericarp.—Trees or shrubs, usually ill- 
scented, with interpetiolar, entire, or fringed stipules. Flowers 
usually small, sessile or pedicelled, solitary or in axillary or terminal 
clusters or cymes. 
x Flowers sessile, terminal. 
Flowers solitary; stipules fringed and cut . . ‘ ‘ . S. consimile, 
X X Flowers pedicelled, solitary, or by 3 or more in peduncled 
Cymes hw Avent long-peduncled, glabrous, by 2-4 axillary ; 
corolla 4-merous ; upper leaves usually ternary . . . &. ternatum. 
1. S. consimile, Kz.—A glabrous shrub ; stipules short, fimbri- 
ate-dissected, minutely puberulous; leaves lanceolate to ovate 
lanceolate, acute at the base, on a short glabrous petiole varying 
om 4 to 8 lin. in length, long-acuminate, 1} to 24 in. long, 
entire, chartaceous, glabrous, usually with a gland in the nerve- 
axils, the midrib on the upper side usually broad and conspicuous ; 
flowers (in bud only) solitary, sessile or nearly so, terminal between 
the stiff stipules; calyx glabrous; corolla puberous; berries almost 
sessile, obovoid, the size of a small pea, smooth, crowned by the 
calyx-limb and the short conical style-base, containing usually a 
solitary seed. 
Haxs.—Not unfrequent in the drier hill forests from Martaban to Tenasserim, 
at 3,000 to 5,000 ft. elevation —Fr. Feb.—SS.—Metam. 
_2. S, ternatum, Bth. & H.f—An evergreen small shrub, all 
parts glabrous or the young shoots puberulous; stipules very long 
and very deciduous, glabrous or puberulous ; leaves opposite, the ter- 
minal ones usually whorled by threes, oblong-lanceolate to elliptically 
oblong, acute or acuminate at the base, on a 3-4 lin. long petiole, 
acuminate, 4-6 in. long, entire or nearly so, chartaceous, glabrous, 
or puberulous along the nerves beneath; flowers white, on $ to 4 
in. long at the upper end subulate-bracteoled pedicels, usually by 
threes, on 1-1} lin. long glabrous peduncles arising by 2-5 from 
the axils of the leaves; bracts lanceolate, about a line long; calyx 
nearly 1} lin. long, glabrous, almost obliquely and sinuately 4- 
toothed ; corolla funnel-shaped, about 4 in. long, velvety outside, 
villous within, the limb 4-lobed ; berries elliptical, pedicelled, by 
threes, in brachiate cymes, the size of asmall pea, smooth, crowned 
by the calyx-limb, 1- very rarely 2-seeded. 
Var. 1, ternatum proper: all parts quite glabrous. 
