425, 
cordate at the base, heaked: capsule clavate, 8-cornered, with & 
prominent nerve between the angles: racemes curved, secund, 
many-flowered: flowers pink. : 
Western slopes of the Neilgherries below Sisparah among grass 
and low jungle. 
(10) S. ancustirot1a. (Roxb) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 178. 
-Spzc.Cuar. Suffruticose, leaves opposite, unequally oblong-lan- 
ceolate, serrulate, hairy: racemes terminal and lateral, few-flowered : 
flowers rose-coloured. 
Mountains on the North-East of Bengal. 
“Cn S. sauarrosa. ( Wall.) 
Adent. Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 182.—Don’s Mill. IY. p. 776. 
Engrav. Wall. Pl. As. Rar. IT. t. 102. 
Spec. Cuar. Stem suffruticose, erect, glabrous, covered with 
mumnerous stipulary soft prickles : leaves cuneate-lanceolate, aggree 
gated towards the ends of the branches, cuspidately-serrated, smooth, 
stiort-petioled: petals oval, acute: racemes terminal and axillary: 
flowers secund, rose-coloured. 
Khasia mountains, 
(12) S. emacutata. (Roxb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fi. Ind. I. p. 181. 
Spec. Cuan. Leaves unequally narrow-cordate, acute, bristly, 
but without spots, serrulated, ciliated: racemes long-peduncled: 
flowers rose- coloured. 
Khasia mountains, 
GENUS If. OSBECKIA. 
Octandria Monogymia. Ser: Syat: 
Deriv. Named after Peter Osbeck, a Swedish naturalist, 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous or shrubby plants with terminal flowers: 
calyx-tube usually covered with bristles or pubescence; limh 4-5- 
cleft, with appendages between the lobes from the outside : petals 
4-5: stamens 8-10! anthers neatly equal and similar to each other, 
shortly rostrate, rarely truncated, opening by a single terminal pore : 
connectivum with two short auricles at the base: ovary covered 
with bristles at the apex: capsules 4~5-celled: seeds cochleate. 
