£6 THALAMIFLOR.^:. 



SufFruticosc, annua], erect, 2-3 feet in height: brandies few, 

 simple, terete, pilose with long hairs intermixed with a glandu- 

 loso-capitate pubescence. Leaves cordate, acuminate, crenated, 

 nerved, veined, green and velvety with stellated hairs above, 

 hoary and stellato-tomentose beneath : petiole terete, elongated^ 

 pilose like the branches. Stipules i an inch in length, subulate, 

 hairy, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, rather longer 

 than the petioles, articulated below the flower, hairy like the 

 branches. Flowers large, showy, of a dirty crimson colour, 

 opening about 9 o'clock in the morning, and closing about 4 

 o'clock in the afternoon. Calyx 5-fid below the middle : divi- 

 sions acuminate, nerved. Petals twice the length of the calyx, 

 veined, minutely ciliated. Stamens numerous. Styles 15, 

 spreading, tinged with purple, length of the stamens : stigmata 

 capitate. Carpels 15, inflated, shortly beaked at the outer 

 angle, densely hirsute with greenish yellow hairs, 9-seeded. 



This is a rather beautiful species. It was discovered by 

 Humboldt and his companions in shady situations by the banks 

 of the Amazon. 



16. * Sida Americana. American Broom-iveed. 



Leaves cordate oblong undivided tomentose, pe- 

 duncles shorter than the leaf, carpels 12 tomentose, 

 acuminate length of the calyx. 



Willd. Sp. in. 150.— De Cand. Prod. 470. 



HAB. Jamaica. 



FL. ? 



Leaves twice as long as they are broad, very tomentose, ser- 

 rated, double the length of the petioles. Calyx tomentose. 

 Carpels 12, size of those of S. abutilon, terminating, at the 

 outer angle, in a lanceolate point, as long as the carpel itself. 



17. Sida abutiloides. Savannah Broom-weed. 



Leaves cordate acuminate bluntly toothed villous 

 above, hoary viscid and tomentose beneath, peduncles 

 axillary solitary scarcely longer than the petiole, car- 

 pels 10 acuminate length of the calyx 3-seeded. 



Lavatera Americana, Stvartz, Obs. 263. — Sida abutiloides, 

 De Cand. Prod. I. 470. 



HAB. Common in dry Savannahs and thickets on the south 

 side of the Island. 



FL. January. 



Sufiruticose, erect, about 3 feet high : branches compressed 

 at their extremities, subflexuose, hispido-tomentose, with stel- 

 lated hairs. Leaves ovate, cordate, acuminate, dentate, nerved, 



