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on rocks (DM.); a greenhouse plant, introduced by Catesby, who collected the seeds. Indi- 

 genous specimens have not yet beeu examined. 



4*. ANODA, Cav. 



Carpids 10-20, uniovulate, indehiscent, depressed, with the beak or apex pointed inwards. 

 Radicle superior. — Involucel 0. Calyx at length spreading. Herbs. 



5*. A. hastata, Cav. Annual, pilose or glabrescent; leaves hastate or lobed at the 

 base ; pedicels axillary, solitary, exceeding the leaves ; calyx profoundly 5-fid : lobes ovate, 

 pointed ; petals usually blue, three times the length of the calyx ; carpids long-beaked. — Cav. 

 Diss. t. 11./. 2 ; As. Gr. Gen. Bor. Jmer. 1. 124. — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica !, Bancr.; 

 [indigenous on the continent: New Mexico, Mexico! to Peru!]. 



5. SIDA, L. 



Carpids 5-15, uniovulate, dehiscent towards the apex or indehiscent, tardily separating 

 from the central torus. Radicle superior. — Iuvolucel {or obsolete). Suffrutesccnt herbs 

 (usually flowering from the first year, and consequently in that state appearing annual), 

 or shrubs. 



Sect. 1. Malvinda. — Calyx h-fid or ^-toothed : tube usually angular. Carpids birostrale 

 or bimucronate at the dehiscent apex (rarely uniaristate or awnless). 



f Leaves tapering or rounded at the base. 



* Flowers shortly stalked or subsessile: pedicel not jointed above the middle. 



6. S. carpinifolia, L. Suffrutescent ; leaves elliptical-lanceolate, serrate above the 

 base ; stipules linear, equalling the petioles and the pedicels ; flowers axillary, shqrtly stalked; 

 calyx 5-fid, exceeded by the yellow petals ; carpids 8-10, reticulated, birostrate or bimucro- 

 nate, glabrous, hairy towards and upon the beaks.— Cav. Diss. t. 2./. 3, t. 3./. 10, 11, t. 

 134./. 1. — S. acuta, Burm. S. stipulata, Cav. S. glabra, Nutt. S. Berteriana, Balb. 

 S. Balbisiana, DC. S. brachypetala, DC. S. trivialis, Mac/.! S. lanceolata, Rich. Cub. 

 S. obtusa, Rich. — Habit of Malvastrum tricuspidatum. The great variability of this species, 

 by which we are justified in uniting these and other synonyms, affects chiefly the following 

 particulars .- down appressed, stellate, or wanting ; leaves varying from rhomboid-lanceolate 

 to elliptic, acuminate or bluntish, quite glabrous or stellate-pubescent beneath, or strigose 

 upon the ribs ; stipules lanceolate or setaceous, variable in length ; flowers usually fascicled, 

 or solitary ; the pedicels shorter than the petiole, or twice its length ; carpids glabrous, or 

 with a short down (chiefly above), their awns 3"'-2'" long, erect, or at length incurved. 



a. Carpids birostrate : beaks erect (of various length, but usually exceeding the diameter 

 of the carpid). 



0. brevicuspidata. Carpids bimucronate : beaks very short. — To this form S. stipulata, 

 Cav., S. acuta, Burm., and the greater part of the above synonyms belong ; it was well 

 described by Macfadyen (S. trivialis, ej.!). 



Hab. Jamaica!, all collectors, common, S. Kitts !, Els.; Dominica!, Imr.; S. Vincent!, 

 Guild.; Trinidad!, Schach, Lockh., Or.; [Florida!, Bermudas!, Cuba! and Guatemala! to 

 New Granada! and Brazil!, tropical Africa!, Canary Islands!, East Indies!]. 



7. S. g-lomerata, Cav. Suffrutescent, downy chiefly by simple hairs; leaves lanceo- 

 late, serrate above the base ; stipules large, obliquely lanceolate, acuminate, nervose, twice 

 the length of the petiole ; flowers axillary, subsessile, glomerate or solitary ; calyx 5-fid, 

 equalling the yellow petals; carpids 5, reticulated, glabrous, shortly bicuspidate: valves at 

 length subulate, divergent. — Cav. Diss. I. 2. / 6. — In habit approaching the preceding. 

 Stem usually with a few or no branches, l'-2' high, either villous with simple hairs exceeding 

 the stellate down, or glabrescent ; leaves with a soft doWn, or scattered, simple, spreading 

 hairs on both sides ; carpids smaller, petioles shorter, and leaves narrower than in S. carpi- 

 nifolia. — Hab. Jamaica!, Al.; Trinidad!, Sieb., Lockh., Or.; [Mexico!, Panama!, Vene- 

 zuela!, Guiana!, Brazil!]. 



8. S. ciliaris, L. Procumbent, diffuse : down scattered, appressed, chiefly stellate ; 



