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carpels do not separate from a persistent basal disk as in that genus, 

 and there seems to be no good reason for excluding it from Sida. 

 Collected by C. G. Pringle in Sonora, Mexico, about one hundred 

 miles south of the boundary, in a low range of hills thirty miles from 

 the Gulf. 



Abutilon aurantiacum. Woody at base, the herbaceous stems 

 1^ to 2 feet high, pubescent and somewhat villous : leaves densely soft- 

 toraentose, velvety and whitish, round-cordate, acute, the rounded basal 

 lobes overlapping, miequally serrate, -^ to H inches broad, shorter than 

 the petioles : flowers axillary and solitary, on villous-pubescent pedi- 

 cels, which are as long as the petioles and mostly jointed near the base 

 or the lower above the middle : calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute ; 

 corolla bright orange, 6 to 9 lines long : calyx and fruit villous-pubes- 

 cent; carpels 10, abruptly short-beaked, 3-seeded, 4 lines long, about 

 equalling the calyx. — On Todos Santos Bay, Lower California, by 

 C. C. Parry, January, 1883, and at Tia Juana, by C. R. Orcutt, in May 

 of the same year, 



Abutilon Parishii, Stout, branching from the base, the herba- 

 ceous stem (2 feet high or more), branches, and petioles more or less 

 villous with reflexed hairs and tomentose : leaves on slender elongated 

 petioles, covered with a dense fine apparently not stellate pubescence, 

 white or whitish beneath, darker above, cordate-ovate with a deep nar- 

 row sinus, acute or acutish, coarsely and unequally toothed, 1 or 2 

 inches long : pedicels axillary, short, 2 to 6 lines long in fruit, jointed 

 above the middle : calyx thinly tomentose, green, 3 lines long, the 

 lobes lanceolate ; petals orange, 4 to 6 lines long : carpels thinly pu- 

 bescent, somewhat villous along the dorsal suture, 4 lines long, with a 

 divergent narrow beak a line lonsr. — On the foothills near Lowell, 

 Arizona, "W. F. Parish, May, 1884, and in the Santa Catalina Moun- 

 tains, C. G. Pringle, April, 1884, Near A. Wright ii, but stouter, the 

 leaves on longer petioles and more coarsely toothed, the pedicels 

 shorter, calyx much smaller and less tomentose, etc. 



Abutilox Lemmoni. Perennial, the stout half-woody branching 

 stems 1 to 2 feet high, hoary throughout with a very dense short stel- 

 late pubescence, its stellate character scarcely perceptible on the calyx : 

 leaves cordate to cordate-lanceolate, acute or slightly acuminate, den- 

 tate, the blade usually an inch or less (sometimes two inches) long, 

 about equalling or shorter than the slender petioles, slightly greener 

 above: peduncles axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves, jointed 

 near the top: calyx with broadly ovate acute lobes ; corolla yellow or 

 orange, small (3 to 4 lines long) : carpels about 9, acute, 4 or 5 lines 



