10 TERNSTROEMIACEyE 



2 inches, deeply grooved from the base to near the top 

 where the stigma persists, t. 290. Wt. Ic. tt. 960, 961. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor in the jungles of the slopes and on road- 

 side, 6,000 feet. Fyson 6201. 



TERNSTRCEMIACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 40. 



MALVACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 43, but for the key to the genera on 

 p. 44 substitute : 



{Fruit a capsule b 

 Fruit separating into its constituent carpels . . . . c 

 {Tall herb with entire or lobed leaves (Vol. I p. 46 and 

 t. 36) HIBISCUS. 

 Low herb with much dissected leaves (Vol. I p. 45 and 

 t. 36) . . . MODIOLA. 



r Styles as many as the carpels, i.e., 5 . .... sida. 

 ^ \ Styles twice as many, i.e., 10 urena. 



SIDA. F.B.I. 26 IV. 



Herbs or undershrubs with toothed leaves, and linear 

 stipules. All green parts pubescent with simple or stel- 

 late hairs. Flowers of the family type, but the fruit 

 splitting into five carpels, which may or may not have 

 each two awns at the top. Radicle in the seed pointing 

 upwards. 



Sida rhomboidca Roxb. ; F.B.L i 324 as var rhom- 

 boidea of S. rhombifolia Masters. A wayside weed, I to 2 

 feet, leaves I to 2 inches, ovate, toothed in the distal half, 

 entire and more or less cuneate in the nearer. Flower 

 stalks longer than the short petioles, jointed at the base. 

 Flowers pale yellow. Carpels 6 to 10, with very short or 

 no awns. t. 291. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor, on waysides. Fyson 6490. 



S. rhombifolia is separated in Gamble's Flora of ike Madras 

 Presidency because the peduncle is jointed about the middle 

 and the carpels are awned. 



