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7. Sida cordifolia, Limi. Sjk PL (1753) p. 684. Shrubby, branched, 

 softly hairy and with much stellate hair nearly all over and subper- 

 sistent. Leaves 1-2 in. long, cordate, ovate-oblong, crenate, obtuse or 

 subacute, not acuminate ; petioles ^-Ij in. long. Pedicels solitary or 

 few together, short, some up to |— | in. long, jointed much above the 

 middle. Calyx -i- i in. long; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla slightly 

 exceeding the calyx, yellow. Emit ^-J- in. in diam. ; carpels 7-10, 

 strongly reticulated, ciliate on the up))er margins, the two dorsal margins 

 almost scabrid ; a\\-ns 2, nearly as long as the carpels, linear, retrorsely 

 scabrid-hairy. Fl. B. I. v. 1," p. 324; Grab. Cat. p. 16; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 17 ; K. Schum. in Mart. Bras. v. 12, part 3, p. 329, t. 02 ; E. Bak. in 

 Journ. Bot. v. 30 (Loud. 181)2) p. 201 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 126; A\\itt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. G, part 2, p. 680.— 

 Elowers : Oct.-Nov. Veen. Bcila. 



KoNKAjj : Stockal; Malwan, DalzeU\ Gujarat: Godra, C'ooXe! S. M. Country : 

 Belgaum, Woodrotc, JRitchie, (Ul ! ; Badami, Woodrowl, Cooke I ; Dharwar, Woodrow. 

 — DisTRiB. Tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres. 



All the species of 8ida enumerated above yield valuable fibres, but 

 the species from whicli the best fibre lias been obtained are S. acuta and 

 S. cordifolia. The fibre from these was, in December 1894, chemically 

 examined in the Besearch Laboratory of the Imperial Institute, accord- 

 ing to the method elaborated by Messrs. Cross and Bevan. Complete 

 details may be found in the Imperial Institute Journal for January 1895, 

 p. 29. See also Dr. Watt's account of Sida fibre in Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. 1. c. 



4. KYDIA, Eoxb. 



Trees with stellate hairs. Leaves ovate, entire or lobed. Elowers in 

 terminal panicles, polygamous. Involucral bracts 4-6, connate at the 

 base, spathulate-oblong, exceeding the calyx, spreading in fruit, per- 

 sistent, brown. Sepals 5, connate below the middle, ovate, incurved 

 over the fruit. Petals 5, obcordate ; filaments luiited in a tube a little 

 more than half their length, then divided into 5 spreading branches, 

 each carrying 3 subscssile anthers ; variously reduced or wantiiig in the 

 carpellate flowers. Style-bninches 3, each carrying a large peltate 

 stigma. Ovary 2-3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule globose, 

 woody, at length loculicidally dehiscent. Seed usually 1 in each cell, 

 reniform-ellipsoid, brow n-black.— Distriis. Species 2, in India. 



1. Kydia calycina, lioxh. Jlort. T?);*//. (1814) p. 51 ; Corom. PIis. 

 V. 3 (1819) p. 12, t. 215. A tree. Leaves 3-6 in. long, palniatfly 

 7-nerved, cordate, usually 3-7-lobed ; lobes often angular, the mid-lobe 

 the longest, glabrous above, hoary tomentose beneath ; petioles 1-2 in. 

 long. Panicles many-flow ered, clothed with dense tawny tomentum ; 

 pedicels ^ in. long. Involucral bracts 4-6, strongly nerved, accrescent, 

 -^-g in. long, in fruit. Corolla white or pink; petals emarginate, 

 exceeding the calyx, clawed, with a tuft of hairs at each side of the 

 base of the claw. Staminal-tube hairy at the base ; filaments longer in 

 the male than in the carpellate flowers. Capsule loculicidally 3-valved, 

 about the size of a very small pea, covered with mealy tonu'iituu), 

 globose, top slightly umbonate. Seeds reiiiform, striate, brown-black. 



