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enough. It has the same almost wiry stem, and the same 
shortly pedicelled slender capsules. The leaves are mostly 
opposite, but there occur also whorls of four. They are 
broader, more finely serrate, and have distinct side nerves on 
each side. Besides, the whole plant is more or less hairy, the 
stem particularly along two opposite commissural lines, the 
leaves on both sides. The species was removed very far from 
N. linearis by Cogniaux in his arrangement, on account of the 
anthers being shorter. They are indeed 4-4*5 mm. in 
S. linearis , and 3*5 mm * i n -S'. erecta , and besides, they are 
more acuminate in the former. But we have seen of what 
little importance this character is in other groups. It really 
cannot have much weight when compared with the connecting 
characters. 
4. S. stricta , Hook. f. Moulmein. 
This plant is in a similar relation to 5 . linearis as 5 . erecta. 
It has generally broader leaves, but sometimes they become 
almost as narrow as those of 5 . linearis , and assume then a 
very similar nervation. They are not whorled, but opposite. 
The plant is much smaller and more slender. The inflor- 
escence and the capsules are quite the same ; the flowers, 
however, are smaller, and the anthers shorter (2 mm.), acute, 
acuminate or rather obtuse. The plant has fine bristly hairs 
and is puberulous along the commissural lines of the stem. 
5. S. tenera , Royle (.S', brachyandra, Naud.). Garhwal east- 
wards to South China and the Philippines ; Chota Nagpore. 
With S', stricta a plant was combined as a variety by C. B. 
Clarke which certainly is most closely allied to it, but differs 
by broader, very indistinctly serrate leaves, a less strict habit, 
and shorter, more obtuse anthers. It was called S. stricta , v. 
bur manic a, and founded on specimens from the Khasia 
mountains. But this plant is absolutely identical with 
Royle’s S. tenera , which was found first in Kumaon and 
hear Dehra Dun. It was also collected by C. B. Clarke in 
Chota Nagpore, and it extends over Manipur and Burma to 
Hong-Kong, and re-appears in the Philippines, where Gaudi- 
chaud collected it near Manila. These specimens from the 
