2ijii XXI. MALVACE.1::. \Abutiloil, 



calyx-tul)e. Carpels about 10, angular or shortly acuminate on the outer 

 edge. Seeds 3 or fewer. — Sida cryptopelala^ P. Muell. Tragm. ii. 11. 



Pf . S. ^Vales. Mount JIurchison, Herb. Mueller. 



AV. Australia. Swau Llivcr, Drammond ; near White Peak, Champioa Bay, Oldjield. 



7. A. geranioides, Benth. A shrub, with slender branches like A. 

 crjjptopetalnm, hoary Vv^itli a close rather soft tomcntum^ witliout spreading 

 hairs. Leaves deeply cordate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 1 to 3 in. 

 long, deeply 5-lobe(l witli the middle k>l>e much longer, all deeply crenate or 

 lobed, and often cnsped. Pedicels axillary, -^ to 1 in. long. Calyx ovoid, 

 inflated, above \ in. long, softly hoary, with 10 promhient veins or ribs, almost 

 truncate with very short obtuse lobes. Petals nearly twice as long as the 

 calyx. Fruit not seen. — -Slda geranloides, DC. Prod. i. i?!-. 



^V. Australia. Sterile islands, Bauditi's Expedition. 



8. A. otocarpum, F.MuelL in Trans, Fhll Soc. Fid. 1855, 13, aiid in 

 Hook. Kew Journ, viii. 10. A tall shrub, densely clothed with a soft velvety 

 tomentum, the branches and petioles almost villous. Leaves deeply cordate, 

 orbicular or broadly ovate, mostly \\ to 2^ in. long, rarely acuminate, crenate, 

 very soft and thick. Pedicels much shorter than the leaves, often crowded at 

 the ends of the branches Calyx 4 to 6 lines long, very prominently 5-anglea, 

 deeply divided into very concave, almost boat-shaped, strongly keeled, acumi- 

 nate lobes, making the calyx intruded at the base. Petals slightly exceeding 

 the calyx. Capsule villous, shorter than the calyx-lobes, narrowed at the 

 top, depressed in the centre; carpels about 10, rather obtuse or scarcely 

 pointed ou the up[)er outer edge. Seeds 3 or fewer. 



N. Australia. In the desert oa Start's Creek, and on Gilbert river, F. Mueller ; 

 Nichol Ray, F. Gregory. 



Queensland. Stokes range, Wheeler, 



N. S. 'Vl/'ales. "Mount ^Murehison, Ballachj and Godwin ; Barrier range, Mount 

 Gouingbear, etc., Ficiorian Expedition. In tliese specimens the toiuentum is closer, the 

 flowers rather smaller, and the eapsule closely tomentose, with the carpels more acute tliau 

 iu the "Western ones, but they have the same remarkable calyx. 



9. A. s-abviscosum, Benth, Apparently shrubby, with much of the 

 aspect of A, indic?wi, but the branches, petioles, and pedicels greener and 

 clothed ivith a viscid stellate pubescence intermixed with longer hairs. Leaves 

 broad, deeply cordate, abruptly aciuaiiiate, 3 to 4 in. long, irregularly toothed, 

 softly but sparingly pubescent above, touientose and "whitish undei'ueath. 

 Pedicels short. Calyx with slightly prominent angles, pubescent, deeply di- 

 vided into acuminate lobes about ^ in. long. Petals exceeding the calyx, but 

 inip(Mfect in our speciiueus. Capsule shorter tlian the calyx-lobes, consisting 

 of about 5 erect carpels, acurainate with rather long points. 



Queensland ? Subtrojilcal regions yf the interior, Mitchell. 



There are in Herb. Muell. two shrubby Abniila, allied to A. iudicum, which it is tlUr.cult 

 to refer to any oftlie above species, but of wIiIlIi the specimeua are insutticicut to characterize 

 as dibtiuct. With the tbliaj^^e of ^. mdlcum, they are said to be shrubby; in cue, the tonicii- 

 tum is close and white without spreading hairs as iu A. hidicam, the other, with the same 

 tonuMituai, hiib also long spreading hairs as in A.graveolem and A. sahviscosum. The 

 flowers and fruit iu both are very near those of A. indicnm, but suiaLcr, and the carpcU 

 fewer (about 10) and less hirsute. They are both from Victoria river. 



10. A, iudicum, G. Bon, Gen. Sj/st, I 501. A tall blenuia! or pcreu- 



