320 MALVACE^. Anoda. 



about equalling or exceeding the subtending leaves, or upper ones in a naked raceme and 

 subtended by linear or filiform deciduous bracts : calyx canescently pubescent : petals dull 

 yellow, a third to half inch long, changing to brown-purple at base : carpels 10 to 12, beaked ; 

 dorsal portion bilamellar at maturity ; the tardily separable endocarpial layer of firm tex- 

 ture, clathrate-reticulate, loosely half enveloping the minutely or sparsely puberulent seed. 



— ri. Wright, ii. 22, & Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 299. A. parvijiora, Wats. Bibl. Index, 132, 

 & Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 330, not Cav. — New Mexico, Writjht. Has been cultivated iu 

 botanic gardens as A. parvijiora. (Mex., Schaffner.) 



§ 2. SiDANODA. Seed resupinate-pendulous in the 5 to 9 depressed or as- 

 cending dorsally umbonate or muticous merely puberulent carpels, destitute 

 of accessory coating : flowers small, disposed to be racemose or paniculate : 

 pubescence mostly fine and stellular ; no bristly hairs. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xxii. 299. 



* Corolla from blue to bluish white : calyx deeply 5-cleft, rotately spreading under and 

 surpassing the depressed fruit. (Connecting the preceding with the present section.) 



A.* Thurberi, Gray, 1. c. Slender, a foot or two high, green and barely puberulent or 

 glahrate below and calyx puberulent-canescent : lower leaves cordate and dentate, upper 

 hastate, but with spreading not strongly deflexed basal lobes : flowers mostly paniculate- 

 racemose : petals only 2 or 3 lines long : carpels 8 or 9, the whole dorsal and thickisii apical 

 portion strongly 3-nerved ; seed puberulent. — A. hastata, var.? Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 23 (iu 

 part), & PI. Thurb. 308. — S. Arizona, Thurber, Wright, Lemmon ; Cheuate Region, Texas, 

 Nealley. (Chihuahua, Pringle, distrib. as A. parvijiora, var. ?) Prof. Garcke (in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxi. 390) fails to distinguish this species from A. pubescens, Schlecht., a Mexican plant in 

 which the basal lobes of the upper deeply hastate leaves are strongly reflexed, and the 

 flowers somewhat larger. No. 78 of Parry & Palmer, from San Luis Potosi, corresponds 

 closely iu these and other regards to Schlechtendahl's description. 



* * Corolla yellow (sometimes pink in fading) : calyx shorter and le.ss deeply cleft, ascend- 

 ing or appressed to and not surpassing the little depressed fruit, its carpels (and closely 

 embraced seeds) nearly vertical, the inflexed apical portion short. 



A. pentaschista, Gray. Slender, a foot or two high, paniculately branched, minutely 

 puberulent and more or l|ss cinereous : lower leaves ovate or subcordate, somewhat 3-lobed ; 

 upper hastate or lanceolate or some linear : calyx 2 lines long, a little shorter than the 

 bright yellow corolla : carpels .5, or not rarely 6 to 9 ; the dehiscent dorsal portion closely 

 applied to and half covering the puberulent seed, membranous with inflexed apex thickish. 



— PI. Wright, ii. 22, & Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 299. — S. Arizona, Wright, to western borders 

 of TexnH, Parry. (Mex., Thurber, Palmer; Lower Calif., ace. to Braudegee.) Havard's 

 specimens from Vieja Mt., Texas, are greener and in .sepals pass to 



Var.* obtlisior, Robinson, n. var. Foliage, pubescence, and inflorescence of the type : 

 base more decumbent and branched, distinctly lignescent and perhaps perennial : calyx-lobes 

 broadly ovate, very obtuse, mucronulate : carpels 5 to 10; seeds minutely granulated. — 

 Sida Paimeri, J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Card. vi. 113, t. 48, not Baker. — Near Corpus 

 Christi, Texas, Nealley, 1894, in flower and fruit (types in U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; also a frag- 

 mentary fruiting specimen from same locality long ago coll. by Torrey (herb. Gray). 



A. abutiloides, Gray. Somewhat robust, branching, 3 or 4 feet high, canescent (branches 

 occasionally bearing some loose pubescence) : leaves cordate and crenately serrate, caudate- 

 acuminate or uppermost subcordate-lanceolate, all densely velvety-tomentose both sides: 

 flowers all paniculate-racemose : calyx 2 or 3 lines long, half the length of the obovate 

 (yellow becoming pinki.sh) petals; the lobes broadly ovate and apiculate : carpels 5 to 7, 

 when mature 2 lines high and less deep, obscurely umbonate, septicidally separating almost 

 entire, tlie diaphanous inner walls tardily breaking up and uncovering tlie enclosed puberu- 

 lent seed; dorsal portion broad and cymliiform, thinmembranaceous, with short summit 

 thickish, dispo.^ed to split down the back into two valves. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 300. — 

 Santa Catalina Mountains, S. Arizona, Pringle (distr. iu 1882 as A. pentaschista, and as Sida 

 Berlandieri, var.). 



