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SIDA PERIPTERA. SHUTTLE-COCK SIDA. 
Clafs and Order. 
MoNADELPHIA PoLYANDRIAs 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Cal. fimplex, angulatus. Sty/us multipartitus. Cap/. plures, 
mono- f, tri-fperme. | 
Specific Charaéer. 
SIDA periptera; foliis cordatis fubtricufpidatis acuminatis fer- 
ratis, petalis obcordato-cuneatis : unguibus diftantibus, fila- 
mentis longe exfertis apice recurvis, capfulis muticis. 
The fpecies of Stpa are fo very numerous, that the genus 
might advantageoufly be divided ; for which divifion the re- 
markable difference in the fruit would probably afford fufficiently 
diftinétive charaéters. 
We do not find that any defcribed fpecies will at all correfpond 
with this, nor have we met with it either in the herbarium of 
Sir Josepx Banks, or in that of Mr. Lampert; and are 
therefore conftrained to confider it as undefcribed. _ 
Desc. Stem tall, fhrubby : branches rounded, hifpid. Leaves on 
long footftalks, alternate, diftant, cordate, lengthened out at the 
point, ferrate, pubefcent on both fides, foft underneath, and rough 
on the upper furface, the bafe of the lower ones only flightly 
angled, upper ones halberd-fhaped. Flowers grow in a {cattered 
panicle at the extremity of the ftalks on long alternate generally 
one-flowered peduncles. Calyx fimple, 5-cleft, villous: /egments 
ovate-acuminate. Corolla bright fcarlet: petals longer than the 
_ calyx, emarginate, wedge-fhaped : claws very narrow, having a 
{pace between them, which gives the flower the form from 
whence our name has been borrowed ; the petals ftanding nearly 
‘upright on the receptacle, like the feathers upon the crown of 
the cork in a fhuttle-cock, being feldom more expanded than on 
the uppermoft flower in the drawing. Column of filaments longer 
than the corolla, and the feparate extremities bent back. Szyle 
the length of the ftamens, divided at top into many white threads. 
Communicated by Jonn Watxer, Efg. Arno’s-Grove, 
Southgate. Suppofed to be a native of Mexico, Flowers moft 
part of the year, es a ee 
