186 XXV. MALVACE-ffi (MASTERS). [Abutilon. 



7. A. zanzibaricum, Bojer, mss. ? An undershrub or tall perennial with 

 downy branches. Leafstalks as long or longer than the blades, which are 

 cordate, ovate, acuminate, wavy at the margins, downy on both surfaces, 

 paler beneath, 7-9-nerved. Flowers yellow, in terminal leafy panicles. Pe- 

 duncles erect or spreading, as long as the petioles, jointed. Calvx-segments 

 lanceolate, downy. Ripe fruit flat at the top, umbilicate, l-\\ in- diam > 

 twice the length of the persistent calyx. Carpels 20, spreading, ultimately 

 separating from the columella, oblong, very acute, blackish, membranous, 

 terminating in two teeth. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Barter ! 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Burton I 



Mozamb. Distr. Senna, Zambesi, Kirk! Zanzibar, Bouton ! 



8. A. ramosum, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 68. An erect branching 

 perennial clothed with dense tomentum, intermixed with long spreading 

 hairs. Leaves on long stalks, broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate, sometimes 

 3-cuspidate, slightly hairy on both surfaces, crenate-serrate, palmately 5-7- 

 neryed. Stipules linear. Peduncles axillary and terminal, shorter than the 

 petioles, slender, cylindrical, trichotomous ; pedicels jointed. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, 5-cleft ; segments acute, half the length of the white (or yellow ?) 

 roundish petals, llipe fruit longer than the calyx. Carpels 8-10, each ter- 

 minating in two long villose spreading or reflexed awns, and splitting through 

 the dorsal suture. Seeds 2-3 in each carpel.— Sida ramosa, Cav. Diss. i. 28. 

 t. 6. f. 1. Abutilon sparmannioides, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 70. A. 

 elaocarpoides, Webb, Frag. Fl. iEthiop. 52. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Brunner ! Perrottet ! 

 Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper I Kordofan, Sennar, Kotschy ! 

 Inis species occurs in Bombay and N.W. India. The Mexican A. Thurberi, A. Gray, 

 approximates very closely to it. 



9. A. indicum, Bon, Gen. Syst. i. 504. A downy perennial with leaf- 

 stalks generally shorter than the leaves, the latter cordate-ovate, acuminate, 

 irregular y crenate-dentate, 7-9-nerved, downy on both surfaces. Flower- 

 stalks solitary axillary or aggregated towards the ends of the branches, simple 

 or slightly branched, longer than the leafstalks, jointed above the middle, 

 balyx cup-shaped, its 5 segments ovate, cuspidate, shorter than the yellow 

 petals. Kipe fruit cylindrical or narrowed below the top, truncate, of nu- 

 merous seceding carpels, each of which is oblong, acute and terminated by 

 l points 1 directed inwards and downwards, the other outwards and up- 

 wards. Seeds 3 in each caryd.-Sida indica, DC. Prod. i. 471. S. gran- 

 dijlora, Don, Gen. Syst. i. 504.. 



ST^lS?"^ /• St 3^ ma8 ' Bon ! Ni & er > *"*«■ •' Abbeokuta, Irving I 



KM* h,ke > Dr - Kirk! Manganya hills, Br. Meller! Sbamo, Dr. 



canary fif 2? thr ° Ugh ° Ut "" tr ° pic8 «* variable * Mature, hairiness, length of 



10. A. bidentatum, HocJtsl. i n Mich. Fl. Abyss, i. 68. An erect 

 undershrub with slender downy branches. Leaves on short stalks, cordate- 



