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sparingly prickly ; corolla shallowly rotate-funnel-shaped, wrinkled- 
plaited, stellate-puberulous outside, the lobes lanceolate, acute; 
berries globular, the size of a pea, smooth, supported by the small 
5-lobed often prickly calyx; seeds rather large, much compressed, 
orbicular-reniform, minutely granulate. 
Hazs.—In the tidal forests of Lower Pegu and Arracan,—Fl. Fr.—Feb.- 
March.—SS.=Sal. 
2. §. torvum, Swartz.—An erect shrubby perennial, often grow- 
ing out into a woody shrub 8-12 ft. high, all parts shortly stellate- 
pubescent and sparingly armed with a few scattered, compressed, 
sharp prickles ; leaves usually paired, more or less ovate, obtuse at 
the very unequal base, on a stellate-pubescent petiole 4-1 inch long, 
sinuate or deeply lobed with the lobes blunt or acute, or almost 
entire, shortly acuminate, the larger ones 3-4, the smaller 2-3 in. 
ong, membranous, densely and shortly stellate and often scurfy 
pubescent beneath, almost powdery-stellate-puberulous above ; flowers 
rather small, white, on slender 2-3 lin. long pubescent pedicels, 
petioles ; calyx 5-lobed, about 2 lin. long, sparingly puberulous, the 
lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute; corolla rotate, more than 4 an in. 
across, stellate-pubescent outside, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate ; 
tries globular, the size of a small cherry,;yellow, glabrous, sup- 
ported the 5-cleft glabrous calyx; seeds compressed, almost 
orbicular-reniform, minutely and indistinctly granulate. 
, ++4B.—-Common in savannahs, shrubberies, light woods, poonzohs and rub- 
bishy places around villages, all over Burma from Chittagong and Ava down to 
Sresnen 3, also on the Andamans, but here introdueed.—Fi. Fr. C.8. and 
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