Phnjianlhtis.] XXI. malvace.e, 189 



2. P. pulchellus, A. Gray, BoL Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 181. A tall 

 shnib or small tree^ either quite glabrous or the young branches and under 

 side of the leaves slightly scabrous with scattered stellate hairs. Leaves on 

 rather long petioles, from deeply cordate-ovate to lanceolate, often acuminate, 

 2 to 3 in. or rarely longer, coarsely crenate, mostly membranous, glabrous above, 

 f Flowers small, clustered along tlie rhachis of axillary racemes, longer or 



I shorter than the petioles. IVlales pedicellate, witli a broadly campanulate 



glabrous calyx of scarcely \\ lines. Petals twice as long. Stamens near 30. 

 -Tistu small and barren, although bearing ovules. Female flowers sessile, 

 with a small ovoid or almost globular calyx. Petals small and persistent. 



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Anthers small and barren. Ovary 5 -celled. Style-branches much thickened 

 <^nd stigmatic from about the middle. Fruit much longer than the calyx, 

 slightly tomentose, somewhat depressed, deeply divided into 5 distinct cocci, 

 which separate from the 5-angled axis and at length open in 2 short valves. 

 —Hook. f. PL Tasm, i. 49 ; Sida pulchella, Bonpl. Jard. Malm. t. 2 ; DO. 

 I'fod. i. 468 (character incorrect); F. Muell. PL Vict. i. 161 ; Abutilon pul- 

 cJielhm., G. Don, Gen. Svst. i. 501 ; BleplarantUhium, Klotzsch, in Link, Kl. 

 and Ott. Ic. Pi. Ear. i. 20. 



W. S. Wales. HaAvlresbiUT river, -B. Brown. Cox's and Macquarie rivers, A. Gun- 

 y^iyighmn ; IHawara and Argyle noutity, Backhouse. 



Victoria- Yarra river, F. Mueller ; Fitzroy river, Tloherfsoyi. 



Tasmania. Poj-t Dah-yniple, iJ. Brown ; abuialuut aear Lauucestou aud on the North 

 Eslc river, /. Z). Hooker. 



var. tomentosus, IIoolc. f. Fl. Tasm. \. 49. More tomentose, especially the underside of 

 the leaves and calyces. Styles elonguted and slender. Cocci very tomentose, — Sida pul- 

 chella, Bot. Mag. i. 2753,' S. tasmanica. Hook. f. in Hook. Journ. But. ii. 412; Plagi- 

 a>ithnji iasmanictfs, A. Gray, Bot. Anier. Expl. Exped. i. 181. Tambo and Buchan rivers 

 in \ictoria, F. Mueller; cuunuou in Tasmania, Guun, 



3. P. spicatus, BeutJi. in Jonrn. Linn, Sac. vi. 103. A tall, erect, 

 somewhat fleshy herb, drying- of a yellowish colour, and glabrous or nearly so, 

 ^ith a thick, hard, almost woody' base, and but little branched, attaining 

 sometimes 5 ft. in height, but sometitnes only 1 or 2 ft. Leaves on long i)e- 

 jioles, from ovate to ovate-oblong or cuneate, rarely exceeding 1 in., iiTegu- 

 larly toothed, 3- or 5-nerved, rather tliick, the upper ones smaller and more 

 sessile, passing into leafy bracts with the stipules adnate. Flowers sessile, 1 

 to 3 together in the upper leaves and bracts, forming a terminal leafy spike 

 s<^metimes a foot long and very dense, usually shorter, with the lower flowers 

 distant. Calyx 5-angled, about 3 lines long. Petals scm'eely longer. Sta- 



i^eus usually under 20. Styles long and slender. Carpels 5, ghibrous, not 

 exceeding tlie calyx, very angular and reticulate, terminating in short conui- 

 >^ent poms.—Lawrencia spicata, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 261 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 

 48; Sida Lawrmcia, F. Muell. PL Viet. i. 163. 



Victoria. Salt marshes, scatterrd along the scacoasi, and snLsalnie places of the N. W. 

 atsen country, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Flinders IslanJ, Bass's Straits, Guan ; Great Swan Port, Backhou.w. 



S. Australia. At variotf^ points aloiik' the const, U. Brown, F. Mueller, and others. 



W. Australia, Swan River, Bnunmond, Coll 1815, n. 302 j Sussex district, Treus, 

 ». 2381 ; llaiudcu, Clarke; Tort Gregoiy, OldfielJ, 



Var. pulescens. Smiutled with loose stellate hairs, and more brauching, with the spikes 



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