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hirsute with spreading hairs, about 1.5 cm long. Capsules ovoid 

 to subellipsoid, obtuse, about 3 cm long and 2 cm in diameter, 

 externally densely hirsute with stiff, spreading, pale hairs. 

 Seeds not at all musky. 



Luzon, Cagayan Province, Bolster 122, July, 1905, For. Bur. 1649S 

 Bacani, January, 1909, Bur. Sci. 7839 Ramos, April, 1909 : Lepanto District, 

 near Cervantes, Merrill U80, November, 1905; Bontoc Subprovince, Vano- 

 verbergh 879, 1221 (type), October and May, 1911. 



This species grows in open grasslands, and is characterized by its 

 thickened, woody, underground base; it is manifestly a perennial plant, 

 differing in this character from A. moschatus to which it is evidently allied. 

 It is very closely allied to Abelmoschus sagittifolius Kurz, which Hoch- 

 reutiner has reduced to A. abelmoschus, but has smaller flov/ers which are 

 yellow, not at all pink or red, and differently shaped leaves. 



HIBISCUS Linnaeus 



HIBISCUS VITIFOLIUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 696; Mast, in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 338. 



Luzon, Union Province, San Fernando, R. Lete 117, Hit, July and 

 August, 1916, locally known as mapua. 



Not previously reported from the Philippines; tropical Africa and 

 Asia to tropical Australia. 



SI DA Linnaeus 

 SIDA LONGISTIPULA sp. nov. 



Herba annua, prostrata, caulis numerosis, usque ad 20 cm 

 longis, simplex vel rariter ramosis, ciliato-pilosis ; foliis oblongis, 

 usque ad 1.8 cm longis, basi cordatis, 3-nerviis, apice obtusis, in 

 I vel '{ superiore parte prominente serratis; stipulis linearis vel 

 lineari-spatulatis, circiter 1 cm longis; floribus breviter pedicel- 

 latis, axillaribus, plerumque ad apicem ramulorum confertis; 

 calycibus teretibus, baud angulatis vel costatis, 5-lobatis, extus 

 pubescentibus pilosisque, 6 ad 7 mm longis; carpellis 5 ad 8, 

 prominente muricatis, facies interioribus prominente reticulatis, 

 brevissime biaristatis. 



An annual herb, the stems numerous, tufted from the apex 

 of the stout perpendicular root, prostrate, spreading, all parts 

 more or less pubescent with sparingly stellate, long, white ciliate- 

 pilose hairs, the stems up to 20 cm in length, simple, rarely 

 branched. Leaves oblong, 1 to 1.8 cm long, 3 to 7 cm wide, 

 long petioled, base cordate, 3-nerved, apex obtuse, in the upper 

 one-half or one-third prominently serrate, the upper surface 

 glabrous, the lower more or less stellate-pilose, the margins 

 sparingly ciliate ; petioles up to 1 cm in length, sparingly ciliate- 

 pilose; stipules linear or linear-spatulate, about 1 cm long. 

 Flowers mostly crowded at the apices of the stems, forming a 



