Abutilon^ XXT. MALVACE.^. 205 



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Iiairs. ^ Leaves cordate-orbicular, often acuminate and irregularly toothed, 

 to 3 in. diameter, thick and soft. Pedicels rarely exceeding the petioles. 

 Calyx \ in. long, the lobes equal to or longer than the tube, the ribs not 

 very prominent. Petals not twice as long, often with a dark base as in 

 A. graveolens. Capsule longer than the calyx, depressed-globular with a 

 concave centre, 7 to 8 lines diameter, densely villous; carpels about 20, 

 closely packed, rounded or very obtuse at the top, and separating completely 

 without leaving the persistent ijlacentee oi A, graveolem, — Blda mnlica, Delil. ; 

 BC. Prod. i. 470. ^ ^ ^ 



Queensland- Kcppd Bay, J?. Brown ; Percy Island, A. Cunningham ; Sources of the 

 -Burdekiii and on the Dawson, F, Mueller; Rockhanipton, nozet. 



The specimens are not complete, but agree well with those from tropical Africa, where the 

 species is common, and general!} i'eferred to A. auaticum^ but is not Skla aslaiica of Lin- 

 ii^'ciis. S, tomentosa, Eoxb., appears to be an E. Indian form of the same species, with the 

 tonientum mixed with spreading liairs as in J. graveoJens, from which it cannot always 

 be distinguished without good fruit. It is this form which is represented as Sida graveo- 

 lens, Bot. Mag. t. 4134. 



16, A. Cunningliainii, BentJi. Allied to A. Fraseri^ but apparently 

 shnibby, mncli branched, and densely clothed with soft, short, but ytlvety to- 

 mentuin, without spreading hairs. Leaves cordate-orbicular, very obtuse, 

 crenate, 1 to 2 in. diameter, thick and soft. Flowers on rather long pedun- 

 cles in the upper axils. Calyx 4 to 5 lines long^ densely tomcntose, deeply 

 divided into broad acuminate lobes. Petals about I in. long. Carpels 10 or 

 fewer, distinct and seceding completely from the axis, rounded at the top^ 

 densely but closely tomentose, and not scarious. 



N. Australia. Endcrby Island, N.AV. coast, A. Cmniingham ; Albert river, ITcJine. 

 Queensland. Estnaiy of the Jinrdekin, Ilcrb, Mueller. 



17. A. Fraseri, IIool,; Walp, Amu ii. 158. A low branching under- 

 ^hyub, rarely exceeding 1 ft., shortly tomentose or pubescent, with longer 

 hairs occasionally intermixed. Leaves cordate, from orbicular to ovate, ere- 

 ^^'ite, often all under 1 in. diameter, but sometimes \\ in. Pedicels rarely 

 exceeding the petioles. Flowers rather large. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, io^ 

 nientose-pnbeseent and sometimes hirsute, divided to about the middle. 

 I'ctals more than twiee as long. Fruit usually exceeding the calyx, sbghtly 

 tomentose or pubescent, 3 to 4 lines diameter, depressed in the centre ; car- 

 pels G to 10, very distinct, and seceding completely from the axis, obtuse or 

 almost pointed at the top, not scarious. Seeds 1 or 2 in each carpel, glabrous 

 or minutely pubescent.— ^/f/« Traneri, Hook, in i\litch. Trop. Aiistr. 3C8. 



N. Australia. M'BouaU ShiarCs Expedition. 



Queensland, On the iNIaranoa, MUchell ; Sutton rivtr and BroaQ Souml, T. Mneller ; 

 hornet river. Leichhardt, 



«. S. XVales. Peel's ranirc, A. OinningJuon s Darling river, BaUachy and Goodwin ; 

 ^oguiya niouutaius, Vicioriau Rrjjedi/wn, 



S. Australia. Subsaline barren plains and hills from Flinders range to Spencer s Gulf, 

 ^' Mueller, 



^- Australia. iSItirehison river?, from a single specimen m leaf only, and therefore 

 douLlful, m J/rrL Mueller. 



. yar. parvijfora. Leaves ycvy obtuse. Flou ers much smaller.—^. diploiricJium, F. Miiell 

 ^'i Unna^n, xxv. 3S0.— S. Anstralia. 



^iir. halophilum. Leaves nsnally orbirular, verv obtuse, often truncate or retuse, the 



