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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 
or horizontal ; radicle superior.— Distrib. A genus of about 80 species, 
most of them being tropical weeds. 
1. S. Mysoeensis, W. & A. Prod. I, 59. A sub-erect, sometimes 
decumbent, herb 1 to 2 feet high, covered with more or less glutinous 
hairs. Leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrate-crenate, 1'5 to 
2 5 in. long and 1 to 1'5 in. broad ; petiole about half as long as 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 j pedicels shorter than the petioles, jointed near the 
middle. Carpels shorter than the calyx, sub-glabrous, each with a 
short awn, or awnless. Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 322; Thwaifes 
Enum. 28. S. hirta, Wall. Cat. 1855, not of Lam. S. urticmfolia, W. 
& A., 1. c. S. nervosa, Wall. Cat. 1853 E. S. olens, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 
1874. S. glutinosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 97 ; FI. Ind. iii, 172; Wall. Cat. 
1855, not of Cav. S. tenax, Ham. in W. & A. Prodr. i, 1. c. ; Wall. Cat. 
1855, E. F. S. fascieuliflora, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i, Pt. 2,140. S. radicans 
Cav. Diss. i, 8 : W. & A. Prod, i, 59. 
A weed by roadsides; in Perak and probably in the other provinces. 
Distrib. India, Java. 
2. S. CAEriNiFOLiA, L. An undershrub 2 to 3 feet high ; glabrous 
or sub-glabrous ; a few minute stellate hairs on the stems and petioles. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, serrate, 2 to 3 in. long and '25 to '3o in. 
broad ; petioles '1 to *2 in. Stipules subulate, nerved, much longer than 
the petiole. Flowers "5 in. in diam, 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. 4G0. Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 323 ; 
Wall. Cat. 1871. S. acuta, Burm. ; Cav. Diss. i p. 15, t. 2, f. 3 ; DC. 
Prodr. i. 461; Wall. Cat. 1868, 1, 2. 3, 4, 5 ; Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 171; W. 
& A. Prodr. i. 57 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 17 ; Thwaites Enum. 27 ; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. Pt 2. p. 143; Wight Ic. t. 95 ; Bl. Bijdr. 55 ; Wall. 
Cat. 1868 G. S. lanceolata, Roxb. l.c. 175; Wall. Cat. 1868 F. S. stipu- 
lata, Cav. Diss. i. t. 3, f. 10 ; DC. Prodr. i. 460 ; W. & A. Prodr. l.c. 
S. Stauntoniana, DC. l.c. ; S. scoparia, Lour, ex W. & A. lc. 
In all the provinces as a weed. Distrib. India and Tropics gene- 
rally. 
3. S. rhombifolia, Linn. sp. 961. An erect under shrub 2 to 3 
feet high, from glabrous to hoary, stellate-pubescent. Leaves varying 
