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axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves, or arranged in longish 
racemes with small leaves shorter than the pedicels: calyx hairy: 
carpels 5, not beaked: flowers very small, yellow. 
Common in the Peninsula, flowering nearly all the year. 
(11) S. micropHytia. (Cav. ) 
Ident. Cav. Diss. I. p. 22.—Dee. prod. I. p. 461.—Roxb. fi. 
Ind. IIT. p. 170. 
Spec. Cuan. Under-shrub: leaves elliptic, toothed : pedicels 
axillary, solitary, a little longer than the petiole: carpels 7, biros- 
trate: flowers small, yellow. 
Bengal, flowering nearly throughout the year. 
(12) S. urticzroria. (W. § 4.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 59. 
Srec. Cuar. An erect under-shrub, covered with glutinous 
pubescence and otherwise hairy: leaves cordate, acuminated, ser- 
rated: pedicels arranged in an axillary, almost leafless corymb, 
rarely as long as the-petiole: calyx hairy: carpels 5, bicuspidate. 
Trichinopoly, 
ORDER XX. STERCULIACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs: leaves alternate, simple or compound, occa- 
sionally digitate, often toothed: stipules deciduous: flowers 
regular or irregular, sometimes unisexual from abortion: calyx 
naked or with an involucre: sepals 5, more or less united at 
the base, valvate in xstivation: petals 5, hypogynous, convolute 
in xstivation: stamens indefinite, monadelphous: anthers 2- 
celled, turning outwards: ovary of 5, rarely 3 carpels, distinct 
or otherwise: styles equal in number to the carpels, distinct or 
united: fruit a capsule, drupe, berry or follicle: seeds some- 
times in wool, or covered with pulp: albumen fleshy, or none. 
GENUS I. HELICTERES. 
Monadelphia Deeamdria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Helix, a screw, in allusion to the twisted cap 
sules. 
_ Gen. Cuar. Shrubs and trees, usually tomentose: leaves un- 
equally cordate : peduncles axillary, few-flowered : calyx somewhat 
