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numerous, free above. Carpels 6 or more, the ripe ones separating from 

 the axis and pointed, or more usually 2-awned at the summit. (A Greek 

 plant name.) 



Species 80 or more, of wide tropical distribution, most of them weeds, 

 about 9 in the Philippines. 



1. A slender, prostrate, spreading herbaceous plant...- 1. S, javensis 



1. Erect branched undershrubs or suffrutescent herbs. 

 2. Leaves cordate at the base; plant glutinous-pubescent or velvety- 

 pubescent with long hairs intermixed. 

 3. Carpels smooth, awnless or nearly so; a rank-smelling, glutinous- 

 pubescent herb , 2. S. myaorenaia 



3. Carpels prominently rugose, long-awned, velvety-pubescent with 



intermixed long hairs _ _ 3. S, cordifoUa 



2. Leaves not cordate; plants stellate-pubescent or nearly glabrous. 

 3. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, green on both surfaces, nearly gla- 

 brous; pedicels not or but little longer than the flowers.. 4. S. acuta 

 8. Leaves not lanceolate, obtuse, retuse, or acute, pale beneath. 

 4. Leaves oblong to rhomboid, acute or rounded; pedicels elongated; 



carpels usually not beaked 5. S.. rhombifolia 



4. Leaves obovate-oblong to obovate, base cuneate, apex retuse, trun- 

 cate, or rounded; pedicels short; carpels beaked 6. iS>. retusa 



1. S. JAVENSIS Cav. Colotang-baguing (Tag.). 



A trailing herbaceous plant, the stems up to 60 cm in length, with 

 scattered stellate hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves orbicular-ovate, 2 to 

 7 cm long, acute or slightly acuminate, base prominently cordate, margins 

 coarsely toothed, sometimes obscurely lobed. Peduncles axillary, solitsiry, 

 elongated, jointed in the middle. Calyx green, about 6 mnni long, the 

 segmehts triangular, acute or acuminate. Corolla yellow,' about 7 mm in 

 diameter. Carpels 6, each 2-awned at the apex, the awns slender, nearly 

 as long as the carpels. 



In thickets, roadsides etc., fl. Oct.-March; widely distributed in the 

 Philippines, and certainly not indigenous. India and Malaya, perhaps in 

 other tropical countries. 



2. S. UYSORENSIS Wight. & Am. Marbas, Marabas, Marbas-gubat (Tag., 



corr. Sp. »»aZ'ya8=mallow). 



An erect, branched, rank-smelling, glutinous-pubescent herb 0.3 to 1 m 

 high. Leaves broadly ovate, cordate, acuminate, crenate, 5 to 8 cm long, 

 the upper ones usually much reduced and oblong to oblong-ovate. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary or in pairs, slenderly pedicelled. Calyx green, pubescent. 

 Corolla yellow, about 1 cm in diameter. Carpels 5, about 2.B mm long, not 

 reticulate, obtuse, scarcely or not at all awned. 



In thickets and fallow lands, La Loma, San Pedro Macati, etc., fl. Oct.- 

 Mar.; widely distributed in Luzon, and certainly not indigenous. India and 

 Ceylon. 



8. S. CORDIFOLIA L. 



An erect suflfrutescent herb 0.4 to 1 m high, densely pubescent and with 

 intermixed, long, spreading hairs. Leaves ovate, 1.5 to 4.5 cm long, obtuse, 

 cordate at the base, prominently dentate-serrate, densely pubescent on both 

 surfaces. Flowers yellow, axillary, often crowded on the younger branches 

 forming leafy racemes, the calyx densely pubescent. Carpels prominently 

 rugose, the awns about as long as the carpels. 



