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slda hastata. halbert- leaved 

 Mexican Sida. 



Clafs and Order. 



MONADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



Generic Charatler. 



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

 i-feu3-fpermae. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms* 



SIDA hajiata ,• foliis cordato-lobatis., pedunculis folitariis axil- 

 laribus longiflimis ; fru&iferis reflexis, capfulis muticis. 



SIDA haftata ,• foliis inferioribus cordatis acuminato-quinquan- 

 gulis fubdentatis obtufis, fuperioribus haftatis acuminatis 

 bafi fubdentatis, pedunculis folitariis axillaribus longitudine 

 foliorum. mild. Sp. PL 3. p. 763. Bot. Repof. 588. HorU 

 Kew. ed. alt. v. 4. p. 205. 



ANODA hajiata i foliis cordatis angulatis, fuperioribus elon- 

 gatis haftatis, pedunculis longiflimis unifloris axillaribus. 

 Cav. Dif. 1. p. 38. /. 11. f. 2. 



SIDA crijlaia. (3. Sp. PL 964. Kniph. Cent. 2. n. 86. 



The fpecific name of halbcrd-JJjaped is fo little applicable to 

 fhe plant from which our figure was taken, that we were at firft 

 inclined to fufpeft. that it was a diftinci fpecies; but we have 

 ken fuch great variation in plants raifed from the fame feed, 

 that we conclude no dependance can be placed upon the form 

 of the leaves. The peduncles, in all the fpecimens that we have 

 lee n, when full grown, are twice the length of the leaves. 



9 ur P ,ant was communicated by Mr. Kekt, from his col- 

 lection at Clapton, where it flowers in the ftove from March to 

 the middle of fummer, and ripens its feeds freely. Said to be 

 introduced in 1799, b y the Marchionefs of Bute. Native of 

 Mexico. Is ufually treated as a ftove plant, but being annual, or 

 at molt biennial, the feeds may be fown in a common hot-bed 

 £ af ly in the fpring, and the plants planted out in the open air 

 b y the latter-end of May, where they will, in favourable 

 leather, ripen their feeds, by which alone they can be pro* 

 Plated. 



