Tab. 4134 

 sida graveolens. 



Heavy-scented Sida. 



Nat. Ord. Malvaceae. — Monadelphia Polyandria. 

 SIDA. L. (Supra Tab. 3892.; De Cand. Prodr. 1. p. 459. 



Sida (Abutilon) graveolens ; ramis tomentosis patenti-hirsutisque, foliis 

 cordatis obsolete lobatis subangulato-dentatis utrinque velutino- 

 pubescentibus, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris petiolum 

 vix superantibus sub florem articulatis, calycis lobis ovatis acutis, 

 petalis imbricatis flavis basi atro-sanguineis, carpellis plurimis pubes- 

 centibus inermibus. 



Sida graveolens. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3. p. 179. De Cand. Prodr. 1. p. 473. 

 Spreng. Syst. Veget. 3. p. 118. Wall. Cat n. 1856. 



Abutilon graveolens. Wight et Am. Fl. Pen. Ind. Or. I. p. 56., and in 

 Comp. to Bot. Mag. I. p. 20. t. 2. 



Sida hirta. Reichenb. Icon. Exot. t. 152. (vix Lam.) 



S. tomentosa. Wall. Cat. n. 1852. 6. 



A native of the East Indies, and of Jamaica ; and probably 

 common to the tropics both of the Old and the New World : 

 for my young friend, M. Planchon, while arranging the 

 two extensive Genera Hibiscus and Sida in my Herbarium, 

 was struck with the great number of species that are common 

 to America and Asia, and even to Africa ; more than Botan- 

 ists in general are aware of. The present species, winch is 

 undoubtedly the S. graveolens of Dr. Roxburgh, the S.hirta 

 of Reichenbach (if not of Lamarck), and probably, as Messrs. 

 Wight and Arnott suggest, also the S. Indica and S. Asiatica 

 of Linnaeus, has been always considered to be exclusively a 

 native of the East Indies : but Mr. Purdie detected it growing 

 truly wild in Jamaica : and seeds which he sent to the Royal 

 Gardens produced plants which have blossomed in the autumn 

 of 1844 in the stove. It is a handsome species, with sort, 

 pale-green . foliage, and yellow flowers with a deep blood- 

 colored eye. 



