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the underground stems sometimes with tnberiferons creeping 

 roots, truilk or stem branched, erect, straight or flexuose, scan- 

 dent or twining, branches more or less spreading, sometimes spi- 

 aescent : leaves alternate, solitary or twin or in threes, rarely 

 sessile, more often petioled, entire or variously divided : inflo- 

 rescence terminal or axillary : cymes simple or dichotomous, re- 

 sembling a raceme, corymb, umbel or panicle : flowers hermaph- 

 rodite, rarely polygamous, often barren with an abortive pistil, 

 sometimes sblitary. 



(1) S. iNCERTUM. (Dun.) 



Iderit. bun. Sol. p. 155. —Dec. prod. XlII. p. 1. p. 57. 



Syn. S. nigrum, Forsk. 



Mngrav. Rheede Mai. X. t. 73. 



Spec. Char. Stems glabrous, rooting or cirrhate : peduncles 

 abortive : leaves ovate, angulately toothed, glabrous : flowers sub- 

 umbellate, small, short. 



Sandy places in Malabar. Bengal. Silhet. Flowering in the 

 cold season. 



(2) S. RoxBHRGHii. {Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XTII. p. 1. p. 57- 



Syn. S. rubrum, Roscb. flor. Ind. II. p. 246. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 344.— Rheede Mai. X. t. 73. 



Spec Char. Stem branched, diffuse, angled : angles denticu- 

 late : leaves ovate-oblong, attenuated at both ends, ribs denticulate, 

 repandly-toothed : common peduncle slender, fructiferous pedicels 

 diverging, shorter than the peduncle: berries red: flowers small, 

 white. 



Common weed in all parts of the country, flowering all the year. 



(3) S. spirale. {Roxh.) 



Ident. Roxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 247. — Dec. nrod. Xltl. p. 1. p. 

 146. 



Spec Char. Branches dichotomous, fistular, glabrous, obscure- 

 ly green, shining : leaves twin, one twice less, oblong-lanceolate, 

 long cuneate into the petiole acuminated, entire or somewhat re- 

 pand, quite glabrous : racemes somewhat leaf-opposed, quite gla- 

 brous, spirally twisted before flowering : pedicels filiform, long, 

 cymose,' sometimes distant, sometimes subumbellate : flowers small, 

 white. 



Silhet. Assam. Flowering several times during the year. 



