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(4) S. MACULA. (Royle.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 796. — ^Don. prod. flor. Nep. p. 49. 



JSngrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 2059.— Eoyle lU. I. t. 94 fig. 1. 



Spec. Chab.. Shrubby, scandent, angular, armed with numerous 

 small pricHes : leaves broad, sub-reniform-cordateatthebase, taper- 

 ing to a blunt poiat, 7-nerved : racemes, male and female, axillary, 

 flexuose, with the flowers fascicled on the flexures, short-pediceUed: 

 female with six rudimentary stamens : berries red when ripe. 



Eastern slopes of the Neilgherries, climbiag over trees to a great 

 extent. 



(5) S. EETirsA. fRexb.J 



Eoxb. 1. c. p. 793. 



Spec. Chae. Scandent, tprete, very prickly : leaves sub-ovate, 

 cordate, retuse, with a triangular poiut, tripU-nerved : stipules am- 

 plexicaul : flowers greenish. 



Bengal, flowering in the hot season. 



(6) S. PEOLIFEEA, (Roxb.) 



Ident. Eoxb, 1. c. p. 795.— Eoyle lU. I. 381. 



Spec. Chae. Branchlets prickly : leaves eUiptic, abruptly cus- 

 pidate-acute, recurved at the apex, sub-rotund at the base, tripli- 

 nerved, stiffly membranaceous : petioles keeled at the back, vaginate 

 anriculate below : umbels 8 — 10, long peduncled, racemosely ar- 

 ranged on a common axUlary peduncle : outer leaflets of the perianth 

 oblong, slightly acute, inner ones naiTow linear, sub-spathulate : 

 anthers oblong, obtuse, a little shorter than the filament : flowers 

 green. 



Eajmahal. Chittagong. Silhet. Oude. Flowering iu February 

 and March. 



(7) S, LAircE«roiiA, (Roxb.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 792. 



Spec. Chab. Scandent : stem and branches unarmed, terete, 

 smooth : leaves lanceolate, 3-nerved, smooth : umbels simple, 

 axUlary, solitary, peduncled : cdycine segments linear-oblong : 

 roots tuberous. 



Silhet. 



