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MONADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. 8t 
Common around New-Orieans. A thorny and spreading. 
shrub 6 to 10 feet high, with very fragrant yellow fiowers. 
A very extensive tropical genus, aimost exclusively in- 
ligenous to America and India- 
“476, | grigie, au Willd. Mimosa. Mich. 
Polygamous.——Calix tubulous, 5 5-toothed. Pe- 
tals 5.. Stamina 8 to sg exserted. Siligue 4- 
valved. ~ © 
Herbaceous and procumbent, aculeate; leaves bipin~ © 
nate; Nowers capitate, reddish. 
Species. §. uncinata. Leaves irritable, contracting 
from the touch. Has. From Virginia to Florida, and 
throughout Lower Louisiana.—The only species known.) 
Iy.—POLYANDREA. 
477. SIDA. Z. 
Calix 5-cleft, simple. Style multipartite. 
Capsules many, 1 or 3-seeded. 
Shrubby or herbaceous, rarely arboréscent, Sowers ax- 
illary or terminal; pedicels articulated. 
. Spectres. 1. S. spinosa. 2. hispida. Pu. A Malva? 3. 
rhombifolia, 4. crispa. 5. Abttilon. 6. Napea. Pedun- 
cles distinctly articulated. 7. didica. 8. ale«oices. 
A genus of néarly 120 species, chiefly indigenous to 
tropical America and India. 
47s. MALVA. L. (Mallow.) 
Calix double; the exterior mostly S-leaved. 
Petals 5, Capsules many, 1-sceded, disposed or- 
bicularly. 
Shrubby or herbaceous: leaves alternate and stipulate, 
undivided, or palmately lobed; flowers axillary or tefmi- 
nal, solitary, more or less aggregated or racemose, (Ese 
bescence stellate. ) 
Srectes. 1. MM. abutiloides. ek. eee A Sida! 
a sree Introduced. 4. triloba. In 
* coccinea. T. N. in Eras. Catal. 1813. A veey beautiful 
— ae scarlet pobagean ss nono dense” recemes; 
