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328 XXVI. MALVACEAE. (MaxAvell T. Masters.) [Abutilon. 



globose bent downwards when ripe, carpels 12 or more wrinkled mem- 

 branous awnless. Wight Ic. t. 68 ; W.dhA. Frodr. i. 56 ; I'hwmtes i.rmm. 

 401. Sida crispa L. ; DC Frodr. i. 469; Roxb. Fl. Ind. m. Ill; [^«». 

 Cat 1857 C,D,E,F. S. indica, Cav. Dus. 33, tab. 7, £ 101 and "^ "--" 

 Heyne. S. montana, Roxh. Ic. ined. 



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- Western peninsula ; Nilghirrhis Mts., the Dekkan, and Coromandel.— Distrib. 

 Tropical and subtropical America. r i 



> A weak diffuse annual. Leaves 2-3 tj H in.; stipules filiform. Peduncles as long 

 as the petiole, geniculate above the middle. Flowers small, yellow. Calyx tuDu a 

 helow, divided beyond the middle into lanceolate sepals. Carpels obtuse, nearly gia- 

 hrous, 2-3-seeded. /Seed* pilose. •" 





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9. A. ramosum, Guill. <Sc Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 68 ; leaves ovate-cordate 

 acuminate, peduncles ahorter than the petioles, sepals free for halt tne 

 length, ripe carpels about 10 much exceeding the sepals, hispid, awns spreaa- 

 ing. Mast, in Oliv, FL Trop. Afr. i. 186. A. sidoides, Dak. & Gtbs. Mom 

 FL 18. JSida ramosa, Cav, Diss, i. 28, t. 6, f. 1. )■ ' 



North- West provinces; Concan, DalzelL — Distrib. Tropical Africa. ^ 



Suffrutescent. Branches downy and with thin spreading hairs. Leaves m^^ 

 petioled, sometimes 3-cuspidate, crenate-serrate. Peduncles axillary and termina , ^ 

 chotomous. Calyx-tube broadly cup-shaped, Sejyals ovate, acute. Petals twice 

 long as the sepals. 





. 10. A. firutlcosum, Guitt. Jc Perr. FL Seneg. i. 73 ; leaves oyat^'^^f^^f^J 

 acute, stipules linear, carpels 10 truncate awnless pointed but little long 

 thau the calyx. j5om. FL Orient, i. 836 ; MasL in Oliv. FL ^^^\M^'^ 

 lb7. A. microphyllum, A. Rich. FL Abyss, i. 70, t. 15. A. albiauffl, 

 Webb. <& BeHh. Phyt Canar.m. 39, t. 2. ? Sida amsena, WalL Catl^f^- 



Si^Dn, StocJcs, Aitcheson ; Irrawaddi? TTaZJicA.— Distrib. Tropical Africa, AraH 



Java. f ntire* 



Sfiffratescent, covered with white down. Leaves small, denticulate or nearly ^n » 

 petiole short. Peduncles solitary, axillary, shorter than the petiole, ^"^'°^ v|jjed 

 pedicels jointed above the middle. Sepals ovate, acute, scarcely euspidate, com 

 belowinto^a shallow cup. Fruit cyliadric, truncate, scarcely exceeding ^rf.^^^Q 

 Seeds sparingly pilose. — Dalzell says the flowers of this species expand at midday . 

 the Sidas, 





11. A. neUffherrense, Munro in Wight. IlL t 66 ; ^^^"^f^^^^^Zi^ 

 glabrous, leaves whitish beneath roundish deeply i)eltate'Cordate acu 

 nate crenate ; peduncles about the length of the petiole, corolla spreaau*5? 

 carpels truncate, twice the length of the sepals. ' 



Western Peninsula, Nilghirrhis Mts., Munro. ^ ^[nat^ 



Leaver sometimes 74 in. Peduncles 2-10-flowered. Sepals lanceolate. ^^"^ j^of 



villous. Petals obovate, united below iuto a short tube, hairy at the orifice.^ ifescrip- 



the stamens glabrous. Carpels about 9.— I only know this species from Munro s a 



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In addition to the foregoing species, A, auritum (Sida aurita, Wall ^<=^^ j,f fj^J 

 Javanese plant, is cultivated in India, and is aometimes met with as an escape 

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