Sida. MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. 171 



JFhwers solitary ; petioles, fiower and stipule-hearing, decan- 

 drous; arils five. 



Ternifj. Multo-opullakum. 



A small, irregular, shrubby species, found on pasture 

 lands, about hedges, under the shade of trees, &c. It flowers 

 through the wet and cold seasons. 



Stem woody, short ; hark gray, somewhat scabrous. 

 Brunches many, irregular, the whole plant is about two or 

 three feet high. Leaves scattered, very short petioled, wedge- 

 formed, retuse, with a small toothlet in the hollow, not serrate, 

 downy underneath, about half an inch long, and one-fourth 

 broad. Stipnies subulate, inserted into the petioles near 

 their base. Flowers petiolary, solitary, ped uncled, inserted 

 on the petioles between the stipules, pretty large, yellow, 

 opening in the afternoon. Filaments ten, five spreading, 

 and five erect. Style five-cleft. Arils five, about as high 

 as the calyx, pretty smooth, most slightly two-knobbed. 



3. S. acuta. Willcl. iii. 735. 



Suflfruticose ; branches flexuose, with spreading bifrrious 

 branchlets. Leaves lanceolate, serrate, smooth. Peduncles 

 solitary, one-flowered. Flowers polyandrous. Capsules Hve, 

 two-horned. 



Beng. K/retta. 



Tsjeru-parua. Rheed. .Ma!, x. 53. 



A native of Coromandel. Flowers in the rainy and cool 

 seasons. 



4. S. hvmilis. Willd. iii. 744. 



Perennial, diftuse, hairy. Learcs round-cordate, serrate, 

 hairy. Flowers solitary, long-peduncled. Capsules five, 

 hornless. 



Sida pilosa. Retz. Obs. i. p. ^O. 



Teliucj. Niilla benda. 



Bepg. Junka. 



Sida uniloculuris, L'Herit. nov.p. Wl.J", G6, is sai<l ti> I»e 

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