Wis8adula.~\ xxv. malvacej; (masters). 183 



Mozamb. Distr., Br. Meller ! 



Found also in the W. Indies, Brazil, and perhaps in India. 



5. ABUTILON, Gsertn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 205. 



Bractlets 0. Calyx 5-cleft. Column divided at the apex into numerous 

 filaments. Ovary 5-oo-celled, each with 1-3 or rarely more ovules. Styles 

 as many as the cells of the ovary. Ripe carpels united at the base or sepa- 

 rate, rounded, beaked or truncate at the summit. Seeds reniform, ascending 

 or horizontal. — Herbs or shrubs covered with down. Leaves cordate, angled 

 or lobed. Flowers axillary or terminal.— DC. Prod. i. 467, sect. Sides. 



A. widely distributed genus whose species are found throughout the tropics of both hemi- 

 spheres. It is, however, only artificially separated from Sida iu the carpellary awns being 

 directed outwards, not upwards, and in the possession usually of more than one ovule in 

 each cell of the ovary. This latter is, moreover, an uncertain mark of distinction. Ihe 

 number of carpels is generally greater in Abutilon than in Sida. 



In India, with the exception of A. fruticosum, the species of Abutilon expand their 

 flowers in the evening ; the Sidas, on the other hand, flower in the daytime. 



Ripe carpels rounded or reniform at the top. 

 Branches (especially the upper ones) angular \. A. angulatum. 



Branches usually terete. 



Carpels rounded, awned. . •#•_,_ 



Peduncles as long as or longer than the adjacent leaf . . . I. A. astattcum. 



Peduncles shorter than the adjacent leaf. Stem downy and ^ eolettS , 



villose " 



Carpels rounded, without awns. /„„, .;-„,„» 



Flowers in large, loose, terminal, much-branched panicles . . 4 .A. lonytcuspe. 

 Flowers solitary, axillary, or, if panicled, densely so, and 



with short pedicels.- A , ww 



Plant downv ; Q > „ r/ ,,.^ n j^»i, 



Plant downy and with spreading hairs A. A. graveoiet *. 



Ripe carpels acute at the top, prolonged into 2 long awns. 

 Ripe carpels with (ultimately) long spreading points. maC rovodum. 



Ripe fruit cylindrical, much longer than the cdyx . . ... 6. A. macropoaum. 

 Ripe fruit pateriform, not more than twice as long as the calyx. ^ tan ^ bariai n. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, downy ' % A ramosum. 



Leaves 3-lobed, hispid . •••'.. i. A. indicum. 



Ripe carpels with erect, not spreading points 



Ripe carpels truncate, with short prolonged points. bidentalum. 



flowers small. Calyx shorter than the ripe fruit . . . . • • 

 Flowers large (| iu. across). Calyx nearly equal to the s ripe frmt_ . 11. A. Mrtum. 

 Ripe carpels not seceding from the axis, truncate, acute, but without 



prolonged points. 12 j aur itum. 



U In deeply 5-cleft, villose lg A. fruticosum. 



talyx shortly 5-cleft, downy 



1. A. angxdatum, Mast. A tell perennial with angular branches 

 covered with whitish down. Leafstalks longer ^^^/X^ 

 roundish, cordate, acute or acuminate, slightly serrated, 5-7-n«vu «. P™ 

 the lower than on the upper surface. SUpules subfalcate, r^exed PMide 

 terminal, loose, much branched, ultimately leafless. ^T^J ^* 

 Sorter than the petioles. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-cleft ; aegmenta ™£,acute, 

 «ubmucronate, much shorter than the yellowish corolla. Fruit subglonosc, 



