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from ob-Ianceolate or obovate to rhomboid, but always with tapering 
btjsea, senate to eremite ; under surface hoary, rarely irroen ; length 
'5 to 2*5 in., petiole '1 to '2 in. Stipules setaceous, longer than the 
petioles. Flowers '5 in. in diam., axillary, solitary ; corolla yellow, 
rarely white ; peduncles much longer (sometimes six times) than the 
petioles, variously an 1 sometimes indistinctly jointed, ebracteolate. 
Carpels smooth or pubescent, or reticulate, each usually with I or 2 
rather long awns, sometimes awnless, generally longer than the calyx. 
Mast, in Hook. fit Fl. Br. Ind. i. 3:23 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. p. 142 j 
DC. Prodr. i. 462 j Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. J 76 ; Wall. Cat 1862, 2 ; Thwaitos 
En nm. 28. S. cnyiariensis, Willd. ; DC. Pro dr. i. 4(32. <S. compressa, 
Wall. Cat. 1866 ; DC. Prodr. i. 402. 
This very polymorphic species has been divided into varieties by 
Dr. Masters in Hooker's Fl. Br. Ind. I.e. as follows : — 
"Var. 1. scabrida, W. & A. Prodr. i. 57 (sp.) * sprinkled with rigid 
hairs, leaves concolorous, peduncles joined at the base, carpels awned. 
" Var. 2. retusa, Linn, (sp.) ; leaves obovate refcnse hoary underneath, 
peduncles equalling tlie leaves jointed above the middle, carpellary 
awns short.— Cav. Diss. i. t. 3, f. 4, and Diss. v. t. J31, f. 2 ; Bl. Bijdr. 
75 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 38 ; Wall. Cat. 1870 ; DC. Prodr. i. 462 J Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. iii. 175 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 17 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 
2, 142. S. chin ensis, Ret/, ex Roxb. Hort. Beng. 97 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 174. 
6'. philippic*, DC. Prodr. i. 462 ; W. & A. Prodr. I.e. ; Wall. Cat. 1869 ; 
Rheede Hort. Mai x. 18; Rumph. Amb. v. t. 19. — The S c&rynocarpa, 
Wall. Cat. 1870, seems to be a form of this variety, with densely intricate 
woody branches, and long carpellary awns. 
" Var. 3. rhomboidea, Roxb. Hort. Benjgr, 50; Fl. Ind. iii. 176 (sp.) ; 
leaves rhomboid hoary beneath, peduncles joiuted at the base, carpellary 
awns very short inflected. DC. Prodr. i. 4G2 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 57 , 
Wall. Cat. 1862 E., 1863; Thwaifces Euum. 28. S. rhombifolia, Wall. 
Cat. 1862 F. ? S. oriental is t Cav. Diss. i. t. 12.— The flowers expand afc 
noon (Roxb.). 
"Var. 4. obovata, Wall. Cat. 1864 (sp.) j leaves 1± by 2 in., broadly 
obovate, hoary beneath, apex coarsely toothed, base cuneate, petiole I 
in., peduncle longer than the petiole shorter than the blade. 
" Var. 5. microphylla, Cav. Diss. i. t. 12, f. 2 (sp.) ; leaves small, 
elliptic dentate hoary beneath, peduncle slightly exceeding the petiole, 
carpels 5-7 awned.— Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 170; DC. Prodr. i. 461." 
In all the provinces — a common weed. Diatrib. The Tropics 
generally. 
4. S. CORPIFOUA, Linn. spec. DG1. An erect softly hairy undorshrub 
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