168 MALVACEH (Harv.) [A butilon. 
5. §. cordifolia (Linn.); shrubby, branches and petioles villous ; leaves 
ovate or cordate, obtuse, penninerved, crenate, velvetty, canescent below; 
stipules filiform, deciduous ; flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, on 
short pedicels ; calyx tomentose, with deltoid, acute, nerved segments ; 
carpels 9-10, wrinkled and netted, dorsally armed with two long, rigid 
bristles. DC. Prod. 1.p. 464. Sida velutina, E. Mey.! 
Has. Port Natal, Drege! Miss Owen, Gueinzius, &c. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
Flowers small, buff-coloured or orange, either on axillary pedicels or oftener 
crowded on short, axillary branchlets, with or without leaves, Common throughout 
the tropics. 
VII. ABUTILON. Tourn. 
Involucel none. Ovary of 5-20 or more carpels, closely united in a 
circle round a central torus ; ovules 3-9 in each carpel. Stigmas capi- 
tate. Fruit of numerous follicular, membranous, 3-6 seeded. carpels, 
dehiscing by the ventral suture and sub-persistent. Hndl. Gen. 5292- 
A. Gray, Gen. Vol. 2. p. 65. t. 125, 126. 
Herbs, shrubby plants or tall shrubs, common throughout the tropics, the whole 
plant generally clothed with soft, velvetty hairs, sometimes also tomentose and 
stellate-hairy. Leaves on long petioles, cordate, sub-entire or angular. Flowers — 
Titec cated Beans Se 
axillary, yellow or orange. Sida as well by habit, as by the nume- 
. The name is of unknown origin or meaning. 
1. A. Sonneratianum (Cav. Diss. t. 6.f. 4); stems and petioles vel- 
vetty and villous; leaves cordate, acuminate, or 3-angled, repand, or 
unequally crenate, velvetty on both surfaces, canescent on the lower ; 
stipules setaceous ; pedicels longer than the leaves ; calyx segments 
oblong-ovate, acuminate ; carpels g-10, truncate, obtuse, stellato-pubescent. 
DC. Prod. t. p. 470. E.§ Z. 318. S. Asiatica, Thunb. Cap. p. 548. 
Drege, 7332, 7333- 
Var. 8. prostrata; small, prostrate, leaves obtusely 3-angled, quite 
entire. S, prostrata, E. Mey. 
_Has. Woods and waste places, in the eastern districts, Caffraria and Natal. 
(Herb. T.C.D.) 
The whole plant is softly velvety; the younger stems and branches are also 
_ ¢lothed with long, soft, spreading, deciduous hairs. Stem 1-2 feet high. Flowers 
_ yellow, an inch across. Carpels inflated, either quite obtuse, or slightly mucronate. 
= A native also of tropical Asia, and often confounded with th 
28 A. 
; e following. 
= 2. indicum (G. Don); stems and petioles more or less velvetty 
d villous ; leaves cordate, acuminate, 3-5 angled or somewhat lobed, 
BOS ean Some glabrescent on the upper, velvetty and canes- 
Jower surface ; stipules setaceous, reflexed, deciduous ; 
pedun es axillary, one-flowered, longer than the petioles ; calyx lobes 
, cate, er Geek elvetty and canescent, carpels 10-20, or more, trun- 
. indubi Ttee DC. oe manate or cuspidate, stellato-pubescent. Sida 
in the cugy Mal. Dr. Grant. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D.) 
and more hairy than in S. 
