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; Erect perennial. Leaves 2^-3 by 2 in., downy on both surfaces, lower petioles 4-5 

 f: ^^diindes 1^-2 in. 8epals ovate, acute. Calyx-tube cup-shaped. Ripe fruit 

 J in. diam. Carpels oblong, glabrescent, twice the length of the calyx. 



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5. A. g^raveolens, W, <Sc A. Prodr. I 56; branches covered with 

 clanimy pubescence mixed with spreading hairs, leaves orbicular-cordate 

 abruptly acuminate velvety on both sides, stipules falcate, peduncles as 



fOng as the netiolfia. S^nalR nvaf.A anntviinQfA parriAla 90 ciT twtwt^ mnnrlpr] 



lat. 1856-, D, E, F, a S. hirta, Wall Cat 1852, B partly. 



NoRxn West provinces, Sindh, Nilghirrhis Mts., and Ceylon.-^Djstrib. Belu- 

 cni8tan, Java, Tropical Africa and Australia. . ■'■■ -'"■■'■ '^ '"' 



Pl'^^, sometimes lobed ; petiole almost as long as the blade ; stipules linear, reflexed. 

 co^r* n^' orange coloured, with a darker centre, ultimately refiexed. Fetch ob- 

 niate. Carpds truncate, rather longer than the calyx, not awned.— The fresh plant, 

 coraing to Roxburgh, has a strong unpleasant smell. There is no constant difference 

 weiween this and the following form, but the var. hirtum is usually more densely hispid, 

 Its carpels are more awned and scarcely exceed the calyx. . . 



brow^^'i y'^^^ ^^- ^^n Gen. Syst. i. 503 (sp.) ; stem copiously hispid, pubescence 

 U\J^ v' ^^^^^ subscabrid above, stioules linear-subulate, carpels about 20, acute, 



Wnl! n l^' ^^- ^^^^- -^^^- 1- Pt- *^, 145. Sida hirta, L,ani, JJici. i. v ; -l 

 "'««.. Caf. 1858 U ; Cav. Diss. t. 129. S. pilosa, rJIer. Stirp. 130. 



ronn^V"*^*.**^^™' ^' ^^^ ^^'^- ^y^^^ i- 502; pubescent and hairy, leaves 

 down C^^^^^*^®' ^^P^ls broad cuspidate, carpels about 20 reniforui awniess 

 nr ]^y/^?rter than the calyx. Boiss. Fl Orient L 836. A. tomentosum, 



\% -^^^t/r. i. 56; ThwaiU^ Kn.uTn.. 27! Dnh. itr Gibs. Bomb. FL 18. 



A. glau 



Mast in Oliv. Fl Trap, Afi 



W ir// ^^''^•^^•I'S,!. 11. S. hivt^. Wall. Cat. 1852 i^ paruu. ^. vu- 

 iS p ^"^^^ ^^^^ C!' S. asiatica, IFall. Cat. 1852 D. S. niutica Dehlf 

 178 • wV'..^^^ "• -^^^ S. tonientosa, Hoxb. HoH. Beng. 50; FL Ind. nu 

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TaiiSr^^f ^ PROVINCES, and Wkstern Teninsula, Stoclcs, Edgeworth, &c. Ceylon, 

 • Annn!l ''"'"l'**-— DiSTRiB. Affghanistan, Trop. Africa, Egypt. . , „ • 



stintilpr I °^ ^?ff™tesceiit. Leaves tomentose on both surfaces, toothed ; petioles 2 m ; 

 flower „;^'''^®> '•^flexed. Feduncles as long as the petiole, stout, jointed near the 

 Calur'vT.^ arranged in axillary nearly leafless clusters. Flowers large, orange. 

 ^ruit el 7 *°™?"to8e, divided halfway down. Petals obliquely triangular, often lobed. 

 g'ODose, depressed at the summit. ;Seed$ 3. scabrous. 



W ^,;5^*®f '*'^»' (^(«>-in. Carp, ii. 251 ; leaves orbicular-cordate with a 

 caroelli ' P^'^^'icle shorter than the petiole, sepals free nearly to tlie base, 

 SidaSi"^"'' ultimately widely spreading. Bom. FL Orient, i. 836. 

 Jf At^utibn, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 470 \ Roxh. h. Ind. iii. 178. 



to S^KZf^^ ^/"^'^' Sindh, Kashmir, and Bengal.-Distuib. N. A.ifl and westward 



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"^litarv iVn'"'""'^°"«' ^o^^^'y tomeutoso. Leaves 3-4 in. ; petiole 3 m. Peduncles 1 in., 

 '^t<"nir^,ry- '^«/'«'» ovate, acute. Petals yellow, hardiv exceeaing the sepals. 



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^tube very short. Car^eh 15I20, much exceeding the sepals, oblong, trnn- 

 "Piaulous or pubescent, with 2 long horizontal spreading ciholate awns, btedt 



cordate'rfT**?™. ^'^ I><»i Syd. i. 502; pubescent and hairy, leaves 

 >^;^roundish acuminate-creuate upper petioled or nearly sessile, truit 





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