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Sida. ] MALVACEZ (Harv.) 167 
An immense tropical and sub-tropical genus, very variable in aspect. The S. 
African species are few and mostly of exotic origin. Leaves entire or lobed, often 
penninerved. Pedicels jointed below the summit, solitary, or several together. 
Flowers small, yellow, or orange, or white; rarely purple. Name, used by Theo- 
phrastus and the early botanists for a plant of this family. 
1. §: triloba (Cay. Diss. 1. t. 1. £ 2. and t, 131. £. 1.); suffruticose, 
glabrous or nearly so ; leaves on long petioles, cordate, 3-lobed, the upper 
ones tripartite, segments lanceolate, acute, coarsely-toothed ; stipules 
short, subulate ; pedicels axillary filiform, much longer than the leaves ; 
~ealyx-lobes ovate, acute ; carpels 7-8, glabrous, pointless. Jacg. Schoenb. 
t.142. DC. Prod. t. p. 466. . £. & Z.! 319. 8. triloba and S. ternata, 
Thunb. Sida, 7320, Drege. get: 
Has. Frequent in margins of woods and waste places in Uitenhage and Albany, 
and in Caffirland. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). ; ele 
Root perennial. Stems woody at base, slender, diffuse, sub-simple or branched. 
Lower leaves cordate or reniform, less deeply cut than the upper, with blunt segments. 
Flowers pale yellow, small. 
2. 8. longipes (E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege); shrubby, the branches and 
petioles stellato-pubescent; leaves ovate or oblong, acute or obtuse, un- 
equally serrate, penninerved, minutely stellato-pubescent, green or 
canescent below ; stipules subulate; flowers axillary, on slender pedicels 
much longer than the leaves ; calyx downy, with deltoid, acute, one-nerved 
segments ; carpels 7-8, pubescent, pointless. S. longipes and S, spinosa, 
E. Mey.! SS. capensis, E. & Z., non Car. 
‘A Ha Uitenhage and Caffirland, Drege! EZ. & Z./ Natal, Dr. Sutherland. (Herb. 
“Wery like some varieties of S. rhombifolia, and only to be essentially distinguished 
by the carpels. The pedicels are pro de Mee cage the leaves an ade on short 
petioles, 
3. 8. rhombifolia (Linn.); shrubby, branches and _ petioles stellato- 
pubescent; leaves rhomboid or oblong-oval, cuneate at base, crenate-_ 
toothed, penninerved, glabrescent above, canescent on the lower side ; 
stipules filiform, deciduous ; flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, on 
short or long pedicels ; calyx scaberulous, with deltoid, acute, nerved 
segments ; carpels 9-10, smooth, minutely bicuspidate. DC. Prod. 1. p. 
402. E.&Z. 317. Sida capensis, KE. Mey.! Cav. Ic. t. 12. f. 3. 
long or lanceolate, obtuse, unequally toothed, penninerved, the petiole — 
_— at base with a hooked spur; stipules linear ; flowers axillary, pe- — 
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cellate ; calyx villous, with deltoid, acute, nerved segments ; carpels . ce 
, rugose, bicuspidate DC. Prod, 1. 460. 
Has. Vahl River, Burke/ (Herb. Hook.). _ f fees ae 
Resembles 8. rhombifolia in aspect, but readily known by the rigid hook at the 
base of the leaf-stalk. A common weed in tropical countries. = 
