104 MR. BENTHAM ON MALVACEJE 
Bastardia, H. B. 4 K., and Howrrria, F. Mill. 
These two genera differ from the whole tribe of Malver in their 
capsule truly loculieidal as in Hibisceæ, without any tendency to 
the septicidal separation so universal in other Malveæ. Yet the 
habit and the staminal column are so completely those of Sida and 
its allies, that they are better placed in their vicinity as exceptional 
genera, than removed to Hibiscez, with which they have little else 
in common. Bastardia must, of course, be reduced, as proposed by 
Grisebach and others, to the two original species, B. viscosa and 
B. bivalvis, Kunth. The B.crispa, St. Hil., and B. nemoralis, St. 
Hil., have several ovules in each carpel, although most frequently 
only one comes to maturity. They form the section Gayopsis of 
Abutilon, a section including A. asiaticum, Don, &c., and pro- 
posed by Shuttleworth to be raised to the rank of a genus, under 
the name of Beloere. 
WissADULA, Medik. 
This small genus, closely allied to Abutilon, is adopted by A 
Gray and others on account of the transverse projection inside 
each carpel dividing it into two cells, analogous to the inner ap- 
pendages which form the character separating Callirhoe from 
Malva, and Modiola from Spheralcea. It should, however, include, 
as proposed by Planchon, the Sida divergens, Benth., notwithstand- 
ing the want of any ovule in the upper portion of the carpels, the 
lower portion containing a single one. Grisebach on this account 
retains it as a section of Sida, under the name of Wissada; but, 
besides the rudimentary transverse dissepiment and the habit, 
which separate it from Sida and bring it under Wissadula, the 
shape of the fruit indicates its connexion with the latter, and not 
with the former. In all Sidas the upper angle is on the inner 
edge next the axis, so that when lengthened into a point or awn 
these points are always erect or connivent ; whilst in Wissadula, as 
in most Abutilons, the upper angles or points are more or less 
divergent or divaricate, giving a peculiar flat top to the fruit. In 
the remaining Abutilons (chiefly of the section Gayopsis) the car- 
pels are rounded at the top, but never have the inner angles or 
connivent points of Sida. 
ABUTILON, Gertn. 
The A. vitifolium (Sida, Cav.) and, perhaps, a few other South- 
Western American species differ slightly from the rest of the 
