20i XXI. MALVACE.^. ' [Jl/Utllofl, 



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includes A.californicum, Beiith., and Sida iiUafoUa, Tiscli. The Australian iUant is be- 



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lievcd to be indigenous. 



13. A. graveolens, W, and Am. Prod, FL Fen, hid. Or. i. 56. A 

 coarse auiiual or perhaps perennial, from 1 to 5 ft. high, clothed with a viscid 

 strong-scented tonientuin, intermixed, especially on tlie branches and petioles, 

 with long spreading hairs. Leaver broadly orbicnlar-cordate, resembling 

 those of -^. Avicennay but softer, Plowers yellow, rather large, on pedicels 

 about as long as the petioles. Calyx about 5 lines long, deeply divided into 

 acuminate lobes, each with a prominent midrib. Petals twice as long. Cap- 

 sule exceeding the calyx, 8 to 10 lines diameter, hirsute, contracted at the 

 top so as to approach in form that of ^. muticum, and the carpels* arc nu- 

 merous and closely j)acked as in that species, but angular or very shortly 

 pointed at the top aud less deciduous^ generally leaving the filiform placentas 

 attached to the axis, the species thus connecting the true Ahiitila with the 

 section Ga^joiJes. — Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag, i, t, 2 -/Sida graveoltms^ Eoxb. ; 

 DC. Prod.' i. 473. 



Queensland. Piper's Island, off the N.E. coast, M'GiUivray, 



The species is widely spread over East India and tropical Africa. The petals have there 

 usually a dark spot at the base which does not appear in our Australian specimens. 



14^. A, oxycarpum, F. Muell, Herb, Herbaceous, diffuse or erect, at- 

 taining 2 or 3 ft., clothed with a close tomentum or soft velvety pubescence, 

 sometimes almost hirsute, the branches usually slender and divaricate. Leaves 

 from cordate-ovate to ovate-hinccolate, crenate, obtuse or acuminate, 1 to 3 

 in. long. Pedicels slender, often 2 together,! to 2 in. long. Flowers small, 

 yellow. Calyx deeply cleft, about 2 lines long. Petals not t;\icc as long. 

 Capsule closely tomentose or pubescent, about 4 lines long, truncate and 

 somewhat dilated at the top; carpels ViU'ely above 10 and often much fewer, 

 with short divaricate poluts at the outer angle, not separating till the seeds 

 shed, and then leaving the filiform placentas attached to the axis. Seeds 2 

 or rarely 3. — Sida oxycarpa, P. Muell. Tragm. ii. 13. 



N. Australia, Fitzroy and Mackenzie rivers, F. Mueller. 



Queenslaad. Keppel Bay, R, Brown; Brisbane river, Fraser, F, Mueller; Rock- 

 hainpton, Thozet, 



K. S, "Wales. Portland Head and Richmond district, R. Broicn ; from Hastings 

 river, Beckler ; Clarence river, Wllcojc ; to Illawara, Backhouse ; aud iuthe interior to the 

 Bhie AFountains, Miss Atkinson; Liverpool plains, A. Ounninfjham ; Macquarie river, 

 Mitchell , Darling river, F, Mueller, 



^V. Australia. Swan Uiver, Bnnnmond. 



There are two principal i'ornis in our herbaria : 1, acuiainm, softly tomentose, pubescent 

 or almost hirsute; leaves ovate-knccolate, or lanceohite, acuminate; the most common 

 J5risl)aneand N. S. Wales form; and 2, hicannm, tomentum close and \vhite; leaves broadly 

 cordate-ovate, obtuse or acuminate ; chiefly within the tropics and in the west. B^Jth arc 

 readily recoii;nizcd by the small calyx, usually not half so long as the capsule, ' 



Var. (?) malvicfoliftm. Less tomentose, but hirsute with long spreading hairs, 

 cordate-ovate, very obtuse, crenate, and more or less distinctly 3-lobed. Sepals almost as 

 long as the carpels.— Mount Mnrchisou iu N. S. Wales, Dallachf/. lliis may prove to be a 

 distinct species, 



15. A. muticnm, G. Don, Gen, Syd. i. 502. Tall and erect, witl^ the 

 hahit o( J, ffraveolens, witli which it is often confouuded, but differs in the 

 fruit, Tomentum dense and soft, but not usually mixed with spreading 



Leaves 



