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ad basin utrinque stipula parva subulata suffulti. Pe- 

 dunculi axillares, solitarii, gracillimi, biunciales et ultra, 

 petiolo longiores, supra medium articulati, glabri. Calyx 

 lato-campanulatus, membranaceus, 5-fidus ; laciniis brevi- 

 bus acutis; marginatus, striisque 10 elevatis notatus, 

 extus subpilosus. Petala cuneata, flava, basi purpurea. 

 Columna staminea brevis. Anthercs uniloculares. Styli 

 5, filiformes, inferne coadunati. Carpella 5, piloso- 

 scabra, cornubus duobus, longis, rectis terminata. 



The Sida Dombeyana of De Candolle is a native of the 

 vicinity of Lima, as is this plant; and, as far as can be 

 judged from the exceedingly short character of that author, 

 they may be the same. The only points at variance are, that 

 the stems can hardly be called filiform, and that the leaves 

 are not ovato-cordate, but truly and broadly heart-shaped. 

 Hence I have quoted the above synonym with a mark of 

 doubt. 



Tab. LXXXIX. Sida Dombeyana. Fig. 1, CaljTc, inclosing 

 the fruit. Fig. 2, 3, Back and front view of two carpels : 

 — magnified. 



3. Sida floribunda ; foliis cordatis ovato-oblongis acuminatis 

 serratis utrinque moUiter villoso-pilosis, subtus fus- 

 cescenti-canescentibus, racemis axillaribus, carpellis 5 

 muticis (potius breviter birostratis.) DC. — Humb, et 

 Kimthf Nov. Gen. v. 5. t. 473. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. 

 p. 465. 



Hab. Lurin, near Lima. 



This seems to be too nearly allied to S. paniculata, as 

 De Candolle himself inclines to think, and to the S. atro- 

 sanguinea, Jacq. Ic. t. 136, with which Sprengel unites it, (as 

 he does also the Abutiloti pedunculare of Humb. and Kunth, ) 

 making it a species distinct from S. paniculata. The flowers 

 are, in a dried state, blackish-purple. 



VI. BUTTNERIACE^. Br. 



1. Waltheria ovata; foliis subrotundo-ovatis inaequaliter den- 

 tatis tomentosis, capitulis sessilibus. DC, — Cav. Diss. 6. 



