SPICILEGIA GORGONEA. 109 
Han. In ins. S. Jacobi (J. Dalton Hooker,) n. 192. November 
1839) In eadem ins. (Darwin) et in herb. ins. Cap. Virid. 
(Mus. reg. Par.) 
31. Abutilon glaucum, Webb ; Sida Asiatica, Cav. Diss. l. 
P. 31. quoad plantam Senegalensem et t. 7. f. 9. non ejusd. 
Diss. 5. 1.198. f. 1. Guill. et Perr. ! Fl Sen. Tent. p. 67. non 
Linn. Sida glauca, Cav. Ic. 1. p. 8. t. 11. Sida mutica, 
Del.! Ill. Fl. Eg. Voy. de Caill. p. 60. n. 45. Brunn. 
Ergebn. p. 113. Sida polycarpa, Chr. Smith, l. c. p. 250. 
(J. D. Hooker, in litt.) 
Has. In ins. Sal. (Brunner!) In ins. S. Jacobi rarior, (J. 
Dalton Hooker, n. 196. November 1839, sp. fl. et fruct.) 
Ad dimidium montis Verede ins. S. Vincentii, et in ins. 
S. Antonii, (Th. Vogel, n. 85 et 30, spec. fl. et fr.) 
Brunner was perfectly right in considering this to be the 
true Sida mutica of Delile. A specimen from Senegal, iden- 
tical with the S. Asiatica of the Flor. Sen. Tent. and with 
the Cape de Verd plant, is so named in the herbarium of 
Desfontaines by that distinguished botanist himself. It 
is likewise the plant sent by Despréaux from the Canaries ; 
and which we named Abutilon Indicum in the Ann. des Sc. 
nat. (2ème sér. 13. p. 132), the specimens being. without 
flower or fruit ; because the authors of the Pr. Flor. Pen. Ind. 
Or. seem to consider the 4. Indicum hardly distinct from the 
4. Asiaticum, of which Dr. Wight has given a good figure in 
his Icones. The carpels in the Indian plants are however acute, 
Whereas in ours they are rounded at the apex. Hence the 
excellent name of Delile, which, however, must give place 
to the earlier appellation of his predecessor, Cavanilles. The 
confusion which has arisen in the species is owing entirely 
to the latter author, who originally confounded Adanson's 
specimen from Senegal, in the Jussian herbarium, with the 
Indian plant of Plukenet and Linneus ; and thus De Candolle 
and the authors of the Fl. Sen, Tent. were led astray. 
Besides the form of the carpels in the Indian plant, which is 
distinctly marked in the figure of Plukenet and by Cavanilles 
himself, Diss, 5, t, 128. f. 1. e et f, the seeds of this species 
