380) 
Gen. Cuan. Herbaceous or suffrutescent platits: stems and 
branches usually 4-angled: leaves opposite: stipules cohering with 
both petioles, sheathing and fringed with bristles: flowers axillary, 
sessile, vetticillate: calyx-tube ovate or turbinate: limb 2—4-tooth- 
‘ed. with sometitnes accessory ones: coroJla cup-sbaped or funnel= 
shaped, 4-lobed: stigma 2-cleft or entire: capsule crowned with the 
calyx, 2-celled: cocci 1-seeded, splitting from the apex downwards, 
the one shut by the dissepiment, the other open: seeds oval-oblong, 
with a longitedinal furrow on the inner side. : 5 
(1) S. arricunaris. (Linn. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 438.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 555.» 
Roxb. fl. Ind, I. p. 372. 
Spec. Crtar. Herbaceous, diffuse, hairy and scabrous: leaves 
from btoad-lanceolate to obovate-oblong : bristles of the stipules 
‘longer than the hispid sheath ; flowers 2~4, axillary, sessile, white : 
tube of the corolla slender, much longer than the calycine teeth: 
tapsule oval, hirsute or villous, crowned with the calycine teeth. 
Peninsula, flowering nearly all the year. 
(2) S. nispipa. (Linn. ) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 438.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 555.-— 
Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 373. : 
Syn, §. scabra, Willd. Dec. 1. c— Roxb. 1. c. p. 371. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. IX. t. 76.—Burm, Zeyl. t. 20. f. 3. 
Spec. Cuar. Herbaceous, diffuse, hairy or scabrous: leaves 
from obovate-oblong to roundish or slightly lanceolate and pointed, 
flattish or waved: bristles of the stipules longer than the hirsute 
sheath: tube of the corolla rather wide: fruit hirsute or villous, 
oval : flowers usually 1-4 together, sessile, white, : 
Peninsula, flowering nearly all the year. 
(8) S. compressa. (Wall.) 
Ident. Wall. Cat. No. 6187.—Don’s Mill. ILI. p. 621. 
Srec. Cuan. Procumbent, diffuse, densely clothed with woolly 
scabrous hairs: leaves ovate or oblong, acute: heads of flowers 
axillary and terminal, verticillate: fruit compressed, crowned with 
the teeth of the calyx. 
Silhet. 
GENUS XXXII. KNOXIA, 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Named after Robert Knox, who lived many years in 
Ceylon, and published an account of it in 1781. 
