1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 41 
from ob-lanceolate or obovate to rhomboid, bat always with tapering 
bases, serrate to crenate ; under surface hoary, rarely green ; 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 and sometimes indistinctly jointed, ebracteolate. 
Carpels smooth or pubescent, or reticulate, each usually with 1 or 2 
rather long awns, sometimes awnless, generally longer than the calyx. 
Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 323 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. p. 142 ; 
DO. Prodr. i. 462 ; Koxb. FI. Ind. iii. J76; Wall. Cat 1862, 2 ; Thwaites 
Enum. 28. S. cunariensis , Willd. ; DO. Prodr. i. 462. S. covipressa, 
Wall. Cat. 1866 ; DC. Prodr. i. 462. 
This very polymorphic species has been divided into varieties by 
Dr. Masters in Hooker’s PI. Br. Ind. l.c. 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 retuse hoary underneath, 
peduncles equalling the leaves jointed above the middle, carpellary 
awns short. — Cav. Diss. i. t. 3, f. 4, and Diss. v. t. 131, f. 2 ; Bl. Bijdr. 
75 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 38 ; Wall. Cat. 1870 ; DC. Prodr. i. 462 ; Roxb. 
FI. Ind. iii. 175 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. PI. 17 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 
2, 142. S. chinensis, Retz ex Roxb. Hort. Beng. 97 ; PI. Ind. iii. 174. 
S. philippica, DC. Prodr. i. 462 ; W. & A. Prodr. l.c. ; Wall. Cat. 1869 ; 
Rheede Hort. Mai x. 18; Rumph. Amb. v. t. 19. — The S. corynocarpa. 
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, Bong. 50; PI. Ind. iii. 176 (sp.) ; 
leaves rhomboid hoary beneath, peduncles jointed at the base, carpellary 
awns very short inflected. DC. Prodr. i. 462 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 57 , 
Wall. Cat. 1862 E., 1863; Thwaites Enura. 28. S. rhombifolia, Wall. 
Cat. 1862 F. ? S. orientalis, Cav. Diss. i. t. 12. — The flowers expand at 
noon (Roxb.). 
“Var. 4. obovata, Wall. Cat. 1864 (sp.) ; leaves 1| by 2 in., broadly 
obovate, hoary beneath, apex coarsely toothed, base cuneate, petiole j 
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. PL Ind. iii. 170; DC. Prodr. i. 461.” 
In all the provinces — a common weed. Distrib. The Tropics 
generally. 
4. S. CORDIFOLU, Linn. spec. 961. An erect softly hairy undershi-uh 
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