Sida. MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, 171 
Flowers solitary ; petioles, flower and stipule-bearing, decan- 
drous; arils five, 
Teling. Multo-opullakum. 
A small, irregular, shrubby species, found on pasture 
lands, about hedges, under the shade of trees, &c, It flowers 
through the wet and cold seasons, 
Stem woody, short; bark gray, somewhat scabrous, 
Branches many, irregular, the whole plant is about two or 
three feet high. Leaves scattered, very short-petioled, wedge- 
formed, retuse, with a smal] toothlet in the hollow, not serrate, 
downy underneath, about half an inch long, and one-fourth 
broad. . Stipules subulate, inserted into the petioles near 
their base. Flowers petiolary, solitary, peduncled, inserted 
on the petioles between the stipules, pretty large, yellow, 
opening in the afternoon, Filaments ten, five spreading, 
and five erect. Style five-cleft. Arids five, about as high 
as the calyx, pretty smooth, most slightly two-knobbed. 
8. S, acuta, Willd. iii, 735. 
- Suffraticose ; branches flexuose, with spreading bifarious 
branchlets. Leaves lanceolate, serrate, smooth, Peduneles 
solitary, one-flowered, Flowers polyandrous. Capsules five, 
two-horned, 
- Beng. Kiretta. 
Tsjeru-parua, Rheed, Mal, x. 53. 
- A native of Coromandel. Flowers in the rainy and cool 
seasons. 
wg S. humilis, Willd. iii. 744, 
- Perennial, diffuse, hairy. Leaves round-cordate, serrate, 
hairy. Flowers solitary, Tong-peduncled. Capsules five, 
hornless, 
Sida pilosa, Retz. Obs. i. p. 23. 
- Teling. Nalla benda. 
Beng. Junka. 
Sida unilocularis, L’Herit. nov. p. 117. t 66, is said to be 
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