178 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Sida, 
18. S. abutilon. Willd. iii. 750. 
Annual, erect, coloured, villous. Leaves cordate, acumi- 
nate, dentate-serrate, Peduncles axillary, solitary. Capsules 
fourteen or fifteen, from two to three-seeded, hairy, much 
longer than the calyx, reniform, with a long, spreading, 
sharp, two-partible horn. 
Abutilon leve. Rumph. Amb, iv. p. 31. t. V1. 
A native of various parts of India, though not common. 
The seed has been received from Pekin into the Botanic gar- 
den under the name King-ma and is said to be cultivated in 
that Province as a substitute for hemp and flax, 
19. S. tomentosa, Roxb, 
Annual, erect, very downy. Leaves round-reniform, gross- 
ly serrate. Peduncles axillary: pesoasnagals arils en 
reniform, very downy. ei 
. Anative of rubbish, road ae Sleel &e. aia ne3 soil 
is : good, but a very rare a Flowers during the cold 
season. oF 
Stem annual, sub-erect, from three to four feet. high, 
branchy, round, very downy, as is every part of the plant. 
Branches ascending, stem-like. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
rather round kidney-formed, some few are pointed, but in ge- 
neral rounded at the apex, irregularly toothed, very downy, 
about as long as the petioles, size very various, the larger are 
about five or six inches long, and from four to five broad, Sti- 
pules lanceolate, reflected. Peduncles axillary, solitary, one- 
flowered, shorter than the petioles where the leaves are large. 
Fiowers large, of a bright deep orange colour, Petals ob- 
liquely triangular; the interior margin deeply divided into” 
two unequal lobes, Capsules about twenty, nearly as high 
as the calyx, in a depressed verticel, very downy, reniform, 
equally rounded at each end, this mark distinguishes it im- 
mediately from S. indica, and asiatica, Seeds generally 
three, a little scabrous, — bearded, 
