[ 33° ] 

 Sida Cristata. Crested Sida. 



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C/4/i #»*/ Order. 



MONADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



Generic Characler. 



Cal. (implex, angulatus. Stylus multipartitus. Cap/, plures 

 l-fpermae. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



SIDA crijlata foliis angulatis, inferioribus cordatis, fuperion- 



bus panduriformibus, capfulis multilociilaribus. Sp. 



PL ed. 3. p. 964. Syjt. Veg. ed. 14. Murr.p. 623. 



Ait. Kew. v. 2. />. 444. Cavanill. Dijf. 1. /. li» 



/. 2. 

 ABUTILON Lavaterae flore, fruftu criftato. ZM. £//&, *- 2. 

 ANODA hallata. JLmmx. Syjl. Nat. ed. GmeL p. 1040. 



Dillenius has figured and defcribed this plant in his 

 Hcrtus Elthanicn/is as an Abutilon : Lin n je. us in his Sp. P'- 

 has ranked it with the Sida's, in which he has been followed by 

 Prof. Murray, Meflrs. Aiton and Cavanille; but Prof. 

 Gmelin, in the laft edition of Linnjk-us' Syji. Nat. has made 

 another new genus of it, by the name of Anoda ; as his reafons 

 for fo doing are by no means cogent, we join the majority in 

 continuing it a Sida. 



It flowered in the garden of Mr. Sherard, at Eltham, W 

 1725, and was introduced from Mexico, where it is a native: 

 Mr. Aiton confiders it as a ftove plant, as he does the 

 Iropteolum majus, and other natives of South- America; ftrictty 

 fpeaking they may be fuch, but if railed early, and treated 

 like other tender annuals, this plant will flower and ripen its 

 feeds in the open ground, as we have experienced at 

 Brompton. 



It grows to the height of three feet, or more, producing 

 during the months of July and Auguft a number of blofforn* 

 in fucceflion, which are large and fhewy ; the ftigmata in this 

 flower are curious objects, refembling the heads of Fung 1 - 

 in miniature. 



