Tas. 4227. 
SIDA (ABuTILON) VITIFOLIA. 
Vine-leaved Sida. 
Nat. Ord. MaLvace®.—MoNADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx nudus, 5—fidus, seepe angulatus. Stylus apice multifidus. 
Carpella capsularia 5-30 circa axim verticillata, plus minusve inter se coalita, 
1-locularia, mono- aut oligo-sperma, apice mutica aut aristata. DC. 
Sra vitifolia : foliis-cordatis 3-5—7-lobatis lobis acuminatis serratis, pedunculis 
terminalibus racemoso-umbellatis petiolo longioribus, carpellis 9 apice longe 
biaristatis. 
Sra vitifolia. Cav. Ic. v.5. p. 428. De Cand. Prodr. 0.1. p. 472. Spreng. Syst. 
Veget. v.83. p.116. Hook. et Arn. Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 154. 
AsurTILon vitifolium. Presi, Relig. Henk. v. 2. p.116. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, 
t. 57. 
One of the handsomest of the genus, but too much of the‘ Mal- 
low’ kind to be a general favourite with cultivators. Seeds were 
sent from Chili to Mr. Veitch, by his collector, Mr. W. Lobb, 
in 1844, and plants blossomed in the greenhouse in May, 1845. 
The plant was first, however, brought to Europe by Capt. Cot- 
tingham, in 1836, and was cultivated in the open border, in 
Dublin, for three years without any shelter. In England, gene- 
rally, however, it requires the protection of a greenhouse. 
Duscr. A Shrub, 4-6 feet high, downy in almost every 
part, with terete dranches. Leaves alternate, petiolate, cordate, 
3-7-lobed, lobes acuminate, especially the terminal one, all 
coarsely but bluntly doubly serrated ; petioles shorter than the 
blade. FYowers terminal, forming corymbose racemes, which are 
longer than the petioles, large, showy. Pedicels rounded. Calyx 
almost campanulate, blunt at the base, deeply five-cleft, with 
broad, acute segments ; dracteas under the calyx none. Corolla 
of 5, large, spreading, obcordate, blueish lilac, striated petals, 
united at the base by their hairy claws. Stamens in five, rather 
short fascicles, united below into a still shorter tube. Anthers 
one-celled, yellow. Ovaries 9-10, united in a circle, each ovary 
MAY Isr, 1846. 2D 
