178 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Fruit a capsule, loculicidal (or indehiscent). 



Styles distinct, spreading; seeds reniform, not clothed with cotton (Hibiscus), 

 Bractlets of the involucres distinct or nearly so. 



Nearly glabrous; calyx becoming thick, fleshy, and red; corolla yellow. 



452. Hibiscus Sabdariffa. 

 Not as above. 



Leaves glabrous; peduncle twice the length of the petiole. 



451. Hibiscus spiralis. 

 Leaves sparsely covered with small, stellate, stiff hairs; peduncle 



longer than petiole 450. Hibiscus costatus. 



Leaves white-tomentose beneath; peduncles shorter than petioles. 



449. Hibiscus furcellatus. 

 Bractlets of the involucre more or less united into a toothed cup; leaves 

 large and cordate-rounded. 

 Petals about 5-8 cm. long, yellow; seeds essentially glabrous. 



447. Hibiscus tiliacens. 

 Petals about 19 cm. long, changing from pale-primrose through orange 



to deep-red; seeds densely villous 448. Hibiscus elatus. 



Styles united; seeds densely clothed with long white hairs (cotton). 



453. Gossypium barbadense. 



432. Abutilon permoUe (VVilldenow) Sweet. 



Sida permollis Willdenow, Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Botanici Berolinensis, 



1809, p. 728. 

 Abutilon permolle Sweet, Hortus Britannicus, L 1826, p. 53. 



"Dry field of scrub at Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines No. 1431." 



(Millspaugh). General Distribution: Southern Florida, Cuba, and the 



Isle of Pines. 



433. Sida spinosa Linnaeus. 



Sida spinosa Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 683. 



Credited to the Isle of Pines by Urban {Symbolce Antillance, IV, 

 1910, p. 389). General Distribution: Warmer regions of both hemi- 

 spheres, ranging north in America to Florida and the Bahamas. 



434. Sida glomerata Cavanilles. 



Sida glomerata Cavanilles, Monadelphiae Classis Dissertationes Decem, I, 1785, 



p. 18, PI. 2, fig. 6. 

 Sida Berteriana Balbis, according to DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis 



Regni Vegetabilis, L 1824, p. 460. 

 Sida jamaicensis Bello, Anales de la Sociedad Espariola de Historia Natural, 



I, 1881, p. 239, no. 43. Not Linnaeus. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 16, 1903, A. H. Cjirtiss, No. 231. 

 General Distribution: Bermudas (introduced), Bahamas, West Indies, 

 Central and northern South America. 



