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Bat. i. pt. 2, 146. Sida indica, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 471 ; Cav. Diss. i. p. 

 33, t. 7, f. 10; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 179; Wall. Cat. 1859, 1, 2, D. P. 

 Sida populif alia, W. & A. I.e. A. populifolia, G. Don. I.e. Sida popidi- 

 folia, DC. Prod. i. 470 ; Cav. Diss. i. t. 7, fig. 9 ; Roxb. PL Ind. iii. 179; 

 El. Bijdr. 79. /S. Beloere, L'Her. Stirp. i. 130. S. Eteroomischos, Cav. 

 Diss. ii. 55 and v. p. 275, t. 128. 



Singapore, Selangore and probably in all the other provinces. 

 A weed. 



3. Urena, Linn. 



Herbs or undershi-ubs, more or less covered with rigid stellate haii'S. 

 Leaves angled or lobed. Flowers clustered. Bract eoles 5, adnate to the 

 5-cleft calyx, sometimes coherent at the base into a cup. Petals 5, 

 often tomentose at the back, free above, connate below and united to 

 the base of the tube of the stamens. Staminal-tuhe truncate or minute- 

 ly toothed. Anthers nearly sessile. Ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled, 

 opposite the petals ; stigmatic branches 10 ; stigmas capitate. Bipe 

 carpels covered with hooked bristles or smooth, indehiscent, sepai'ating 

 from the axis when ripe. Seed ascending ; cotyledons bent and folded ; 

 radicle infeinor, Distrib. Species 4-5, natives of tropical and sub- 

 tropical countries, 2 only being confined to Asia. 



U. LOBATA, Linn. Spec. 974. A hei'baceous undershrub 1 to 3 feet 

 high, more or less hairy. Leaves very variable ; the lower rotund to 

 reniform, more or less cordate at the base, the apex usually acute, edges 

 with 5 to 7 shallow lobes or sub-entire, 5 to 7-nerved ; length 1 to 2 in., 

 breadth 1 to 25 in. ; upper leaves smaller and sometimes ovate to 

 linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved. Petiole shorter than the blade ; bracteoles 

 oblong-lanceolate, as long as the sepals. Corolla pink, '5 to 1 in. in 

 diam. Carpels tomentose, and with many smooth hooked spines. Mast. 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 329 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 149; Cav. 

 Diss. iv. p. 336, t. 185, fig. 1 ; Miq. PI. Jungh. 283 ; DC. Prodr. i. 441 ; 

 Roxb. PL Ind. iii. 182 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 56 ; Wall. Cat. 1028 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. PL 18 ; Thwaites Enum. 25 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 

 148. U. cana, Wall. Cat. 1930 B. U. palmata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 182. 



U. tomentosa, Bl. Bijdr. 65. 



All the Provinces : a weed. Distrib. The tropics generally. 



Var. 1. sinuata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I.e. ; leaves deeply 5-lobed, the 



lobes narrowed at the base, serrate, often pinnatifid, bracteoles linear ; 



flowers often smaller than in the typical plant. Z7. sinuata, Linn. ; DC. 



Prodr. i. 441; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50; Fl. Ind. iii. 182; Wall. Cat. 1933 



E. ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 46 ; Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 329 ; Thwaites Enum. 

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