170 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Sida, 
use by the natives; the wood is also very soft, and of little or 
no use, 
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SIDA. Schreb. gen. N. 1129. 
Calyx simple, five-toothed. Style many-parted, Cap- 
sule (or arils) conjoined round a common receptacle, from 
one to three-seeded, 
1. S. microphylla. Willd. iii. 739. 
Suffruticose, ramous. Leaves from round-cuneate, to lan- 
ceolate, serrate, hoary underneath, Flowers solitary, decan- 
drous. Capsules five, with two sub-ovate seed horns, and a 
double, scabrous, hairy ridge on the back. 
A native of Bengal, where it is in blossom the whole sone 
round. : Regu 
Flowers expand at nine in the morning, Trunk eiiig: 
Branches numerous, slender, straight. Bark of the ligneous - 
parts ash-coloured, height of the whole plant from one to 
three feet. Leaves short-petioled, from round-cuneate to lan- 
ceolate, and rhomb-lanceolate, serrate, slightly three-nerved, 
hoary with white down underneath, from one to two inches 
long. Petivles villous, scarcely one-sixth part the length of 
the leaves, Stipules slender, filiform, a little flattened, Pe- 
duncles solitary, axillary, one-flowered, when in blossom 
about the length of the petioles, but lengthening much by 
the time the seed is ripe. Flowers small, yellow. Petals 
distinct, obliquely triangular. Stamens about ten. Siyle 
five-cleft. Capsules five, about the length of the calyx, 
horned, with a scabrous, hairy, double ridge running down 
from the horns; when ripe the upper half falls off like that of — 
the capsula circumcissa, Seed solitary. r 
2, S. cuneifolia, Roxb. 
' Suffrutex. Leaves wedge shaped, ey not pene 
