53 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
stellate hairs, nearly smooth above and with surface appearing 
as if scurfy, with veins impressed. The stout pedicels ascending 
and jointed near the tip, haif an inch long. owers pale-yellow 
and with rounded petals about lem. long. Calyx rather rotate- 
spreading in flower, with lobes triangular-ovate-acuminate and a- 
bout 8 mm. long, stellate-pubescent as are the carpels, about as 
long asthe fruit. Fruit depressed-globose and truncate at tip. 
Carpels 2-seeded, about 10, minutely beaked at the blunt tip, 3 
mm. long. Seeds angular, barely puberulent. Leaves low-crenate. 
Sida rajoides n. sp. No. 27163, Primiera Agua Sierra 
Giganta Oct. 191930, A slender and erect bush 3-5 ft. high ra- 
cemosely branched above, the whole upper part becoming a com- 
pound and leafy panicle. Whole plant minutely and velvety-stel- 
late. pubescent even to the fruit. Leaves ovate, fr a truncate 
obscurely and doubly crenulate, 7-nerved from the very base and 
with veins conspicuously raised below and impressed above, barely 
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dalajara, Nov, 16 1930. Annual and erect and slendor plant ra- 
cenosely branched above in an open panicle. Basal leaves trian- 
gular-ovate-cordate, the blades 2-3 inches long, green,sparsely stel- 
late-pubese ent on both sides, passing gradually into linear ones 
above which are entire and hastate-lobed below, with the ears 1 cm. 
long and defloxed, root leaves crenate, Panicle ry open and 
ditfuse with elongated branches and the filiform peduncles 1-3 
neheslong. Calyx about 5 ma. loag, with trisngular lobes half 
v3 long, nob enlrreging in feuit. Fiowears very narrow, an inch 
loag, p irple, wita the pstals soprrate anl coaspicuoasly stalked 
Peeing foci i iit ithe Ne exsertel a3 it 
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spicusus white connective batween the cells, Fruit about 5 mm 
wida, of about 10 carpals whic's ara hispid at tip anl truncate. 
and eared on the wigles. Svels black, traneate at tip, with the, 
arched back flat or a littlo grooved along the middle and raz32, 
thisin Kosteletz<ia bat the fruit edaragtars are those o: Sils. 
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