Tab. 4170 

 SIDA (Abutilon) p^onosflora. 



Pceony -flowered Sida. 



Nat. Ord. Malvaceae. — Monadelphia Polyandria. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra Tab. 3892.; 



Sida (Abutilon) paonicejlora ; fruticosa, ramis teretibus pubescenti-hirsu- 

 tis, foliis brevi-petiolatis late ovatis acuminatis serratis pubescentibus, 

 basi trinerviis, stipulis subulatis deciduis, pedunculis axillaribus binis 

 ternisve unifloris folio brevioribus pubescenti-hirsutis, calyce ventri- 

 coso basi obtuso 5-fido, segraentis ovatis acutis reflexis, petalis valde 

 concavis rotundatis venosis, germine globoso, sty lis 12 — 13. 



This is another of the interesting discoveries of Mr. Wm. 

 Lobb, while on a Botanical mission for Messrs. Veitch of 

 Exeter, in the Organ mountains of Brazil. It is, indeed, a 

 remarkable fact, and an evidence of the great variety of the 

 Brazilian vegetation, that, although Mr. Lobb and Mr. 

 Gardner were botanizing in the same range of mountains at 

 the same time, each of them met with plants which the other 

 did not find. The present species will rank in the section 

 Abutilon, and along with Sida picta, and S. Bedfordiana. It 

 flowered in the stove of Mr. Veitch's Nursery, in January, 

 1845, and seems new to our books, as it assuredly is to 

 our gardens, where, indeed, it is likely to prove highly 

 ornamental. 



Descr. Probably, when fully grown, a tall shrub or small 

 tree ; the branches downy, mixed with hairs. Leaves four to 

 six inches long, ovate, acuminate, slightly downy, conspi- 

 cuously serrated, penninerved, three-nerved at the base, all 

 the main nerves connected by slender, transverse ones. 

 Petiole short, downy, with two subulate stipules at the base, 

 which are soon deciduous. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 

 erect, downy, and hairy, rarely solitary, generally two to 

 three in the axils of the leaves, single-flowered. Flowers 

 large. Calyx downv, ventricose, and very obtuse at the base. 



