Jkllfilo)L'\ XXr. MALVACEAE. 203 



nial, clothed with a whitish tomeutura, usually very close and sliort. Leaves 

 cordate-orbicular, iiTcgularly creuate, toothed or dmost loLed, usually acumi- 

 nate, attaining Sometimes 5 to 6 in., tlie upper ones much smaller. Pe- 

 dicels shorter than the leaves. Calyx campanuhde, 5 to 6 lines long, an- 

 gular in the bud, the ribs scarcely prominent when in flower, deeply divided 

 nito acuminate lobes. Petals yellow, longer than the calyx. Capsule hairy, 

 exceeding the calyx, truncate, and attaining sometimes 7 or 8 lines diameter 

 at the top ; carpels about 20, acute-angled or minutely acxmiinate at their 

 npper outer edge, like all the preceding species not readily separating at ma- 

 turity. Seeds 3 or fewer in each carpel. — SiJa indica, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 

 471 ; Wight, Ic. Pi. t. 12 ; Slda asiatica, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. ilQ ; MutiloiL 

 asiatlcum, G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 503. 



N. Australia. Point Cuimiughaui and Cygnet Bay, A. Cunningham ; Gulf of Car- 

 pentaria, Landsborotigh. 



Queensland, Kcppel T?ay and Shoulwater Bay, K Brown; Percy Island, A. Cun- 

 nhigjiam ; Poit Deiiison, Tllzalan, 



lac species is widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa. 



IL A. auritum, <7. Don, Gen. Sf/sl. i. 500. A tall herb or perhaps 

 nndershrub, softly clothed with a soft tonientinn. Stipules broad, scuu- 

 sagittate^ often 4 to G lines long, and persistent. Leaves deeply cordate, acu- 

 nuuate, denticulate, 2 to 4 iii. long, softly pubeseent-tomentose above, white 

 Uiulerneath. Plowei's rather sniall, of a brown-reddish yellow, on veiy sliort 

 pedicels, in ahnost leafless, terminal, branching racemes or [lanicles, with a 

 hroad, wliitish, deciduous, stipular bract under eacli pedicel. Calyx ob- 

 tusely 5-angled, softly tonientose, deeply divided into broad acuminate lobes. 

 1 etals not twice as long. Stamens not very nuniercus. Capsule longer than 

 the calyx, hirsute, truueate ; carpels numerous, with short divaricate points. 



Sida aurita. Wall.; DC. Prod. i. 468; Bot. Mag. t. 2495. 



N. Australia. Koj)pi;l i]iiy, R. Brown ; Percy Ijsland, A. Cunning Juan, 

 The species is also fotuid iu Java aud iu the Philippine Inlands. 



12. A. Avicennse, Grerbu Carp. ii. 251, t, 135. A coarse, erect, 

 Iji'anching annual, from 1 to i ft. high, softly and more or less densely to- 

 inentosc-pubescent, without spreading hairs. " Leaves broadly orbicnlar-cor- 

 date, acuminafe, often 3 to 4 in. long, nearly entire or toothed, or obscurely 

 lobcd. Flowers yellow, rather small, on pedicels usually short. Calyx abont 

 3 hues long, soiiiewhat longer when in fruit, rather prominently 5-rlbbed, 

 "ccply lobcd. Petals exceeding the calyx. Capsule exceeding the calyx, 

 PuotbCent or hirsute, truncate, atul often f in. diameter at the top; carpels 

 "siuilly 10 to 15, with subulate diverging points, persistent till after the seeds 

 «»'e fallen, and then leavin"- at least the filiform placentas attaclied to the 

 '^^is.— ,Su/a- Jbiitilon, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 470 ; P. Mucll. PL Vict. i. 164 ; 

 i^milon Beh'lamm, F. Mueli. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. 1855, IS/and m 

 -Hook. KcAv Jouru. viii. 10. 



N. S. "Wales. Oil tlie Davlmg aiul many of its tributaries, F. Mueller. 

 Victoria. Dry buds of In^roons adjoining 'the 31urray, F. Mueller. 



S.Australia.' Coopur's Creek, ^rV^y///, 



A native of the Mtditerranean region aud of the ueisrhbounng districts of Asia, also per- 

 y^Ts of uorthcru China and Auim-laud, where it is said to be cultivated for textile purposes, 

 ^t nas also uaturallzed itself as a weed over iiiany part:> of Asia, Africa and N. America, and 



