170 MONADELPHIA DODIXANDRI A. Sidu, 



use by the natives ; the wood is also very soft, and of little or 

 no use. 



SI DA. Schrch. gen. N. 1129. 

 C'a///a; simple, five-toothed. 5'/// ^e many- parted. Cap- 

 sule (^or arils) conjoined round a common receptacle, from 

 one to three-seeded. 



I. S. imcropliylla. Willd. iii. 739. 



SufiVuticose, ramous. Leaves from ronnd-cuneate, to lan- 

 ceolate, serrate, hoary underneath. Flowers solitary, decan- 

 drous. Capsules five, with two sub-ovate seed horns, and a 

 double, scabrous, hairy ridge on the back. 



A native of Bengal, where it is in blossom the whole year 

 round. 



Flowers expand at nine in the morning. Trvnk trifling. 

 Branches numerous, slender, straight. Bark of the ligneous 

 parts ash-coloured, height of the whole plant from one to 

 three feet. Leaves short-petioled, from round-ciineate to lan- 

 ceolate, and rhomb-lanceolate, serrate, slightly three-nerved, 

 hoary with white down underneath, from one to two inches 

 long. Petioles villous, scarcely one-sixth part the length of 

 the leaves. Stipules slender, filiform, a little flattened. Pe- 

 chincles solitary, axillary, one-flowered, when in blossom 

 about the length of the petioles, but lengthening much by 

 the time the seed is ripe. Floicers small, yellow. Petals 

 distinct, obliquely triangular. Stamens about ten. Sti/le 

 five-dtft. Capsules five, about the length of the calyx, 

 horned, with a scabrou , Ijairy, double ridge running down 

 from the horns; when ripe the upper half falls oflTIike that of 

 the capsula circumcissa. Seed solitary. 



2. S. cuneijolia. Roxh. 



Suflfrutex. Leaves wedge-shaped, rctuse, not serrate. 



