178 MONADELPHIA DODEC ANDIII A. Sidtt. 



18. S. abntilon. Willd. iii. 750. 



Annual, erect, coloured, v illous. Leaves cordate, acumi- 

 nate, dentate-serrate. Peduncles axillary, solitary. Capsules 

 fourteen or fifteen, from two to three-seeded, hairy, much 

 longer than the calyx, reniform, Avith a long-, spreading', 

 sharp, two-partible horn. 



Abutilon laeve. Rvmph. j9mh. iv. p. 31. t. H. 



A native of various parts of India, though not common. 

 The seed has been received fromPekin into the Botanic gar- 

 den under the name King -ma and is said to be cultivated in 

 that Province as a substitute for hemp and flax. 



19. 8. tomentosa. Roah. 



Aimual, erect, very downy. Leaves round-reniform, gross- 

 ly serrate. Peduncles axillary, one-flowered ; arils twenty, 

 reniform, very downy. 



A native of rubbish, road sides, hedges, &c. where the soil 

 is good, but a very rare species. Flowers during the cold 

 season. 



Stem annual, sub-erect, from three to four feet high, 

 branchy, round, very downy, as is every part of the plant. 

 Branches ascending, stem-like. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 rather round kidney -formed, some few are pointed, but in ge- 

 neral rounded at the apex, irregularly toothed, very downy, 

 about as long as the petioles, size very various, the larger are 

 about five or six inches long, and from four to five broad. Sti- 

 pules lanceolate, reflected. Peduncles axillary, solitary, one- 

 flowered, shorter than the petioles where the leaves are large. 

 Flowers large, of a bright deep orange colour. Petals ob- 

 liquely triangular; the interior margin deeply divided into 

 two unequal lobes. Capsules about twenty, nearly as high 

 as the calyx, in a depressed verticel, very downy, reniform, 

 equally rounded at each end, this mark distinguishes it im- 

 mediately from S. indica, and asiatica. Seeds generally 

 three, a little scabrous, white, bearded. 



