Tas. 4463 coma 
SIDA (AxBuTILON) VENosa. 
Veiny-petaled Sida, 
Nat. Ord. Matvace#®.—MoNnaADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4227.) 
Supa (Abutilon) venosa; subarborea, ramis herbaceis glabris, foliis lon 
_ tiolatis cordatis 7-palmatis profunde 7-lobatis, lobis lanceolatis ac 
-grosse inciso-serratis, stipulis subulato-lanceolatis, pedunculis axillgribus 
solitariis unifloris longitudine foliorum sub apicem articulatis, calycis ampli 
campanulati tubo globoso 15-lamellato limbo 5-partito laciniis ovato-lan- 
ceolatis acuminatis, petalis latissime spathulatis concavis conniventibus 
venosis. ; is sa : % 
ABUTILON venosum, Hortal. 
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A large green-house shrub, or 
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‘oe, 
it may almost be called a small 
tree, the name of which we have only seen in print in a Catalogue of — 
venosum, Hort. Zuric.” It appears to have come to England by 
way of Belgium, and we have no information of its native 
country; but if we judge from its affinity with Sida Bed- 
fordiana (Bot. Mag. t. 3892) and S. picta (t. 3540), we should in- 
fer that south Brazil is its native country. Of the two species just 
- mentioned, it is most nearly allied to S.picta, on account of its 
Imated leaves ; but the segments of the leaves, and the flowers, 
especially the structure of the calyx, are very different. It 
blooms in the spring and summer, and our earliest knowledge of 
it was from a fine specimen brought to us by Robert Barclay, Esq., 
who had flowered it at Nott’s Green, Leytonstone. | The blossoms 
are large and exceedingly handsome, from the rich colour and 
fine purple veining of their petals. os | 
Descr. A small free, with rather straggling branches, the 
young ones herbaceous, quite glabrous. Leaves frequently a 
span long, broadly cordate, palmately and deeply seven-lobed, 
the lobes lanceolate, much acuminated, and coarsely and incisely 
serrated : the young ones only with a few stellated hairs, chiefly 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1849. ss 
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the Plants of the Botanic Garden of Zurich, marked “Abutilon 
