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Ripe carpels separating- from the axis, generally 2-awned at the summit, 
and dehiscing irregularly or by a small slit. Seed solitary, pendulous 
ov horizontal ; radicle superior. — Distrib. A genus of about 80 species, 
most of them being tropical weeds. 
I. S. Mysokensis, W. & A. Prod. I, 59. A sub-erecfc, sometimes 
decumbent, herb I to 2 feet high, covered with more or less glutinous 
hairs. Leaves cordate- ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrate-crenate, 1"5 to 
2 5 iu. long and 1 to 15 in. broad ; petiole about half as long a* the 
blade. Stipules linear, less than half as long as the petiole. Flowers 
less than *5 in. in diam., in few-flowered axillary racemose cymes, 
corolla yellow ; pedicels shorter than the petioles, jointed near the 
middle. Carpels shorter than the calyx, sub-glabrous, each with a 
short awn, or awnless. Mast, iu Hook. 6L Fl. Br. Iud. I, 322; Thwaites 
Enum. 28. S. hirta, Wall. Cat. 1855, not of Lam. S, urticwfolia, W. 
& A., L c. S. nervosa, Wall. Cat. 1^53 E. 8, olens, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 
1874. 8. ghdinosa, Roxb. Hurt. Bong. 97 ; PL Ind. iii, 172 ; Wall. Cat. 
1855, not of Cav. S. tenon, Ham. in W. & A. Prodr. i, 1. o. j Wall. Cat. 
1855, E. F. S. fascicnlijlora, Miq. PL Ind. Bat. i, Pt. 2, 140. 8. radicans 
Cav. Diss, i, 8: W. <fc A. Prod, i, 59. 
A weed by roadsides; in Perak and probably in the other provinces. 
Distrib. India, Java. 
2. S. CAiuixivouA, L. An iiudershriib 2 to 3 Fret high: glahrons 
or sub-glabrous s a few minute stellate hairs on the stems and petioles. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, acu to, serrate, 2 to 3 in. long and -25 to '.'15 iu. 
broad ; petioles "1 to '2 in. Stymies subulate, nerved, much longer than 
the petiole. Flowers '5 in. in diiim, solitary, axillary ; corolla yellow, 
peduncles as long as the petiole, jointed, minutely bracteolate. Carpels 
shorter than the sub-globose ribbed calyx, glabrous, rugulose, each with 2 
short awns. DC. Prod. i. 400. Mast, in Huok. til. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 323; 
Wall. Cat. 1871. B. acuta, Burm. ; Cav. Diss, i p. 15, t. 2, f. X ■ DC. 
Prodr. j. 461 5 Widl. Cat. 1868, 1, 2. 3, 4, 5 ; Roxb. Fl. Tud. iii. 1 71 j W. 
& A. Prodr. i. 57; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 17 ; Thwaites Enum. 27; 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt 2. p. 143; Wight Ic. t. 95 j Bl. Bijdr. 55 ; Wall. 
Cat. 1868 G. <S. lanceolata, Roxb. I.e. 175 ; Wall. Cat. 1868 F. S, stipu- 
late, Cav. Diss. i. t. 3, f. 10 ; DC. Prodr. i. 460 ; W. & A. Prodr. I.e. 
S. Stauntoniana, DC. I.e. ; S. senpar-ia, Lonr. ex W. & A. Ic. 
In all the provinces as a weed. Distrib. India and Tropics gone- 
rally. 
3. S. RnoMBiFOLlA, Linn. sp. 961. An erect under shrub 2 to 3 
feet high, from glabrous to hoary, stellate -pubescent. Leaves varying 
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