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and tender shoots, aro made use of as substitutes for soap. 

 Rubbed up with water, they form a lather, which may bo 

 employed in shaving-, when the skin is in an irritable state, not 

 admitting of the use of soap. 



3. * Sida ciliaris. Procumbent Broom-iveed. 



Leaves oblongo-elliptic retuse serrato-dentate to- 

 wards the apex, peduncles axillary subtermiiial soli- 

 tary very short, stipules of the same length or longer 

 than the petiole ciliated, carpels 7 muricated shortly 

 bi rostrate. 



Malva minor supina, flore coccineo, seminibus asperis, 



Sloane, I. 217. t. 1^7. f. 2 Malva minima supina, Brotvne, 



282 — Sida ciliaris, Cav. diss. I. t. 3. f, 9. — Swartz, Obs. 257. 

 -De Catid. Prod. I. 461. 



HAB. Common in dry waste places, and pastures. 



FL. July — December, after rains. 



Suffruticose, procumbent at the base, terete, hirsute with ap- 

 pressed stellated hairs. Leaves at the ends of the branchlets, 

 elliptic, approaching to oblong, retuse, serrato-dentate and cili- 

 ated towards tlie apex, glabrous above, stellato-hispid beneath, 

 scarcely more than half an inch in length : petiole half the 

 length of the leaf. Stipules setaceous, ciliated, rather longer 

 than the petiole. Flowers small, red, shortly peduncled, axil- 

 lary, solitary. Calyx 3-partite : segments ciliated. Petals en- 

 tire. Anthers 10. Style 7-partite, longer than the stamens. 

 Carpels 7, muricated, shortly birostrate at the apex. 



* * Peduncles elongated and distinctly jointed^ leaves 



ohlong. 



4. Sida minor. Lesser Broom-weed. 



Leaves oblong and rounded at the base, sometimes 

 ovate and subcordate, serrated subglabrous above stel- 

 lato-puberulous beneath, peduncles axillary solitary 1- 

 flowered rather longer than the petiole jointed, car- 

 pels 5 shortly bicuspidate. 



HAB. Dry situations, Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. July — November. 



Suffruticose, about 8 inches in height: branches compressed, 

 very minutely stellato-puberulous. Leaves, in old plants, ovate 

 and subcordate, in young ones, oblong and rounded at the base, 

 crenato-serrated, and incano-puberulous above, incano-puberu- 

 lous with stellated hairs beneath. Stipules half the length of 

 the petiole, setaceous, ciliated. Pedmicle jointed above the 



