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4. SIDA, Linn. 





" Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves simple or lobed. Bracteoles 0. Coly^ of 

 6 valvate sepals, tubular below. Corolla of 5 petals, free above, connate 

 below and adnate to the tube of the stamens. StaminaUvhe dividing at 

 the summit into numerous anther-bearing filaments. Ca^i^els 5 or more, 

 wborled; styles as many as the carpels, stigmas terminal. Rij^e carpels 

 separating from the axis, generally 2-awned at the summit, and dehiscing 

 irregularly or by a small chink. Seed solitary, jiendulous or horizontal; 

 radicle superior.— Distkib. A genus of about 80 species, most of them 

 being tropical weeds. 



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X. S3, uiuouisy nuca. ; uu. rrooT. i. ^o^; a. trailing herb, leaves sub^ 

 orbicular-cordate acute serrate slightly hairy, carpels 5 sometimes awnea. 

 Cav. Diss. y. t. 134, f. 2; Jioxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 171; ThwaiUs Fmm 28] 



S. nervosa, Wall Vat, 1853, not of 1)0. 



Generally distributed throughout the hotter parts of India. Djstrib. Tropical Africa 

 and America. .7 



., Very variable. JStem usually procumbent, branching, covered, like the leaves, wit 

 a row scattered radiating hairs; petiole rather t^horter than the bhide. , "'^""''^^]? 

 jointed in the middle, distant or arranged in a loose raceme Flowers axillary, so • 

 iary or tw:n. Calyx-segments triangular, very acute. Corolla straw-coloured, scarcely 

 rxcoeding the calyx. Carpels 5, rauticous or shortly bicuspidate.— The speciinensy^>7 

 80 much in qualjty of pubescence, length of carpellary awus, &c., that I liud itdimcm 

 to determine the following varieties with accuracy. ' xt tL 



Vak. 1. morifolia, Cav. Diss. i. 9, t, 1, f. 1 (sp.) ; carpels slightly mucronate.— , >>^^ 

 LfUt, 1853 13, t*, ^ 



Var. 2. vtromc(BfoUa, Lam. Diet. n. 11 (sp.) ; carpels with two longishawns.— ^'»|'- 

 Diss. 1. 7, t. 1, f. 3 and 5; Wall Cat 1853 D. . ■ 



. 2. S. mysorensis, W. S A. Prodr. i. 59; Lerbaceotis, covered with 

 glutinous hairs, leaves cordate-ovate acuminate, peduncles shorter tliani" 

 petioles, carpels 5 awned keeled. Thwaites Enum. 28. S. hirta, ^'^■}Cv 

 ^1%K>5. not of Lam. S. urticaefolia, W. Jh A. I.e. S. nervosa, Wall. Cat.lb^'^E;: 

 8. ulcus, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 1874. S. glutinosa, Roxh. Uort Beng-^/ ' W 

 I lid. iii. 172: Wall (1ni iftK;^ v>r>t r.f f\,'„ S. tenax, llam. in '> • "'^ ^ 



radicans, Cav. Diss. L p. 8 ; "'• 



Lhutax, Tknasserim, Coromandel, Mysore, Concan, Ceylon. i «nr be- 



^ A lierb or uiidershrub 1-2 ft. Ligh. Leaves 24 by 2 in., coa.sdy toothed, aowur 

 neath ; petiole 1^ in. Peduncle jointed in the middle. Flowers scarcely 4 ^'i' *" 

 Perhiips not specifically distinct from S. huiHilis. ' 



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3. S. Schlmperlana, Ilockd. in Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 66; pejfSe', 

 shrubby, branches repeatedly forked, leaves oblong retuse i^ase.cui .^ 

 carpels ^ subglobose beaks short coniiivent. Mast, in OUv. Fl. Jro]). ^ j^ 

 IbO. Sida cuneifolia, Roxb. Fl. Lnd. iii. 170. Dictyocarpus truucatus, rr a^^ 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xi. 169; Madras Joum. Lit. dh Sc v, t. 19. ^ 

 chia trimcata and Hermanhia aluifblia. Wall. Cat. 1196 K. W 



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