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base, middle vein penninerved, petiole about 2 lines long, apex of leaf acute or 
subacuminate, serrate, stipules linear, ¢ to 4 inch long; flowers axillary, solitary or 
subsolitary ; peduncles slender, about 4 inch long or at the apex of the branches the 
flowers are subsessile or sessile—on some of the lateral branches the inflorescence is 
slinost racemose; calyx tube terete, sepals ovate, acute or subacuninate, externally 
finely, minutely stellate; petals obovate (when dried rose-colored), not quite 2 lines 
long; staminal column glabrous; styles capitately stigmatose; carpels 5, only seen 
when quite young, then hairy and not aristate. 
Allied to Sida paniculata L. 
Wissadula pringlei Rose, sp, nov. 
Branches, petioles, pedicels, and calyx pilose, the hairs intermixed with a short, 
close, and somewhat glandular pubescence; leaves cordate, acuminate with a deep 
narrow, sometimes closed sinus, crenate, long, loosely stellate or pilose above, 
densely stellate beneath; petiole 3.5 to 5 cm. long; stipules filiform, caducous; 
flowers axillary or in somewhat leafy panicles; peduncles 2 to 4 cm. long, jointed a 
few millimeters below the flower; calyx about 8 mm. long, somewhat enlarged in 
fruit and as long as the carpels, cleft to the middle, the lobes ovate, acute; petals 
light-yellow, longer than the sepals; carpels 5, 8 inm. long, including the aristate 
tip, 2-celled; lower cells narrower, of different texture from the upper, 1-seeded ; 
upper cells inflated, 2-seeded. 
Collected by Mr. C. G Pringle in the State of Oaxaca in 1894 (No, 4872), 
Very much resembling Lastardia berlandieri in habit and foliage, but very different 
in fruit. 
Abutilon membranaceum Baker fil., sp, nov, 
Radice simplice fibroso, caule erecto tereto ligneo, foliis cordato-ovatis acuminatis 
membranaceis viridibus grosse serratis interdum biserratis utrinque sparse stellato- 
pubescentibus petiolatis, petiolis laminis brevioribus vel sub:equilongis versus 
apicem petiolis laminis multo brevioribus, tloribus axillaribus solitariis vel versus 
apicem parce aggregatis, pedunculis gracilibus juxta florem articulatis, sepalis 
ovatis acuminatis carpellis multo brevioribus, petalis (in sicco tlavidis) ealyee duplo 
longioribus, carpellis 5 apiculatis externe stellato-scabridis 3-spermis, 
Habitat, Mexico, Tepic. Dr. E. Palmer. No. 1959. Collected between January 
5 and February 6, 1892. 
Root simple, fibrous; stein erect, 1 to 1} feet high, possibly higher, woody, rather 
slender, terete, slightly pubescent; leaves cordate, ovate, acuminate, membranous, 
2 to 34 inches long, 14 to 2% inches broad, serrate, sometimes biserrate, petioles gen- 
erally shorter than the lamina, above much shorter than the lamina, terete, finely 
stellately seabrid, lamina palmately 5-nerved, finely stellately pubescent on both 
surfaces; flowers axillary, solitary or toward the apex somewhat aggregated; 
peduncles slender, terete, articulated near the flower, above the articulation rather 
more pubescent than below, often bent at the articulation; calyx pubescent exter- 
nally; sepals ovate, acuminate, about as long as the tube, much shorter than the 
fully ripe carpels; petals obovate above 2 inch long, staminal column 4 inch Jong, 
hairy below; carpels 5, apiculate, externally stellately scabrid, nearly 4 inch long, 
3-seeded; seeds black, smooth. 
This plant is very nearly identical with Sida dumosa Seeman non Swartz, collected 
by Seeman in Panama (No, 2146). 
Abutilon wissaduloides Laker fil., sp. nov. 
Caule vel ramo ligneo tereto foliis cordato-ovatis acuminatis serratis vel erenato- 
serratis 7-9-palmatinervatis membranaceis viridibus utrinque tenuiter pubescenti- 
bus subtus paullo pallidioribus infra petiolis laminis longioribus vel subiequilongis, 
floribus paniculatis paniculis foliosis laxis, pedunculis gracilibus teretibus plus min- 
usve vglanduloso-pilosis, calycibus externe glanduloso-pilosis, sepalis triangularibus 
acutis in mediam carinatis, petalis obovatis (in sieco violaceis), columna staminea 
