Abutilon.\ MalvacecB. 145 



2. A. muticum, G. Don, Gen. Hist. i. 502 (1831). 

 Thw. Enum. 27. C. P. 3259. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 327. 



Shrubby, branches with fine dense pubescence mixed with 

 long spreading hairs; 1. ii-3 in., broadly ovate, cordate at 

 base, acute, irregularly dentate, velvety on both sides, petioles 

 \-\ in., densely hairy, stip. linear-falcate, deflexed ; fl. very 

 large, 2 in., ped. f-i in., stout, very hairy ; cal. densely felted, 

 segm. shallow, triangular, very acute ; ripe carp. 20 or more, 

 obscured by dense tomentum and forming a depressed- 

 globular fruit, quite without beaks ; seeds 3, finely muriculate, 

 hairy. 



Low country ; very rare. Only found about Tangalla, S. Prov. Fl. 

 Sept.-Jan.; orange-yellow. 



Found in N.W. India, and extends to Affghanistan, Trop. Africa, and 

 Egypt. 



3. A. indicum, G. Don, Gen. Hist. \. 504 (1831). Anoda, S. 

 Peruntutti, Vaddattutti, T. 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 5i9(?). Thw. Enum. 27. C. P. 1133. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 326. Wight, Ic. t. 12. 



A semi-shrubby perennial, branches very finely downy; 

 1. f-2 in., broadly ovate, very cordate at base, acute, irregu- 

 larly and coarsely dentate or erose, white, with very fine dense 

 pubescence on both sides, especially beneath, petioles very 

 long, 1-3 in.; fl. about i in., nodding; ped. slender, jointed 

 near top ; cal.-lobes shallow, apiculate ; ripe carp. 1 5-20, 

 readily separating when ripe, sparsely and roughly hairy on 

 back, beak short, sharp, spreading horizontally; seeds mi- 

 nutely dotted. 



Dry country; common. Fl. most of the year; orange-yellow. 



Found throughout the Tropics. 



I suspect Fl. Zeyl. n. 519 to be this, but there are no specimens in 

 Hermann's Herb., only a drawing. Linnteus refers it to his Sida Abutilon 

 {Abutilon Avicenncs, Gaertn.). 



4. A. g-raveolens, W. and A. Prod. 56 (1834). Vaddattutti, 71 



Thw. Enum. 27. C. P. 1134. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 327. 



A much-branched shrub, 4-6 ft., branches covered with 

 minute glandular pubescence mixed with long white spread- 

 ing hairs ; 1. 2-3^ in., ovate, very deeply cordate, acute, more 

 or less dentate, softly pubescent on both sides, whitish be- 

 neath, petiole 1-2 in., with spreading hair, stip. setaceous, 

 usually soon falling; fl. i^ in. (often apparently terminal), 

 ped. i^-2h in., erect, stout, thickened at top, jointed below 

 upper third ; cal. very large, densely pubescent, becoming 



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