184 XXV. MALVACEAE (MASTERS). [Abutilon. 



depressed, urabilicate, twice the length of the persistent calyx. Carpels 

 about 20, subraembranous, obtuse, reniform, 1-seeded. — Bastardia angtdata, 

 Guill. et Perr. PI. Seueg. 65. A. intermedium, Hochst. PI. Schimp. Abyss. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrotlet ! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Dillon et Petit ! 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! 



Mosamb. Distr., Dr. Metier ! Zambesi, Dr. Kirk ! 



A typical specimeu of Perrottet's in the British Museum shows that his Bastardia an- 

 gulata is referable to the same species as that subsequently called A. intermedium by 

 Hochstetter. n 



2. A. asiaticum, Don, Gen. Syst. i. 503. An erect perennial whose 

 branches are covered with down, mingled with a few villi. Leaves stalked, 

 cordate-ovate, acute, crenate-dentate, 7-12-nerved, downy on both surfaces, 

 stalks scarcely so long as the blades. Stipules leafy, subulate. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, longer than the leaves, jointed near the top. 

 Calyx-segments deltoid, acuminate, as long or longer than the ripe fruit. 

 Petals reddish-yellow {Vogel). Fruit subglobose, depressed in the centre, 

 an inch or more in diameter, of 20 or more carpels, which ultimately fall 

 away from the axis, and are reniform, 2-mucronate, downy, and 3-seeded.— 

 Stda asiatica, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 470. S. guineensis, Solium, et Thonn. 

 PI. Guin. 307. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, T. Vogel! 

 ^ Mozamb. Distr. Senna, Br. Kirk! Mozambique, Forbes! Quilimane and elsewhere, 



A widely distributed plant in the tropics ; closely allied to A. indicum, but differing from 

 it in the greater relative length of the peduncles and of the calyx. 



3. A. graveolens, Wight et Arnott, Prod. Fl. Ind. i. 56. A tall per- 

 ennial covered with down, interspersed among which are a few spreading 

 villi. Leafstalks as long as the leaves, the latter orbicular-cordate, acumi- 

 nate, coarsely dentate, 7-12-nerved. Pedicels solitary, axillary, jointed, 

 shorter than the leafstalks. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-fid, its 5 segments oval, 

 cuspidate, shorter than the yellow corolla, but about equalling the ripe fruit, 

 which latter is subglobose and consists of 20 carpels ultimately seceding 

 trom the axis. Carpels membranous, oblong, somewhat rounded at the 

 apex, shortly beaked or muticous. Seeds reniform, 3 in each carpel.— Sida 

 graveolens DC. Prod. i. 473. Abutilon tortuosum, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 

 i. oS. A. Figananum, Webb, Frag. Fl. iEtbiop. 53. 



Upper Guinea. Seuegambia, Perrottet ! 



StaLifwJS^^^' a*"* 1 *" Abyssinia, Schim P er! 

 A common Indiau plant, occurring also in Queensland. 



4 A. longicTXspe, Hochst. in Rich. Ft. Abyss, i. 68. A shrubby, 

 much-branched plant, thickly beset with fine down. Leaves stalked, cor- 

 date, broadly ovate, with long points, serrate, palmately 5-7-nerved, paler 

 beneath Flowers numerous, in large, terminal, much-branched, ultimately 

 leafless clusters Pedicels jointed. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, 5 -cleft; seg- 

 ments acute about one-third the length of the purplish reflected corolla, 

 truit subglobose, umbihcate, downy, longer than the persistent calvx. Car- 



