Sida. MALVACE^. 325 



mostly longer than petiole, from filiform-linear to lanceolate, tardily deciduous : peduncles 

 not longer tlian the calyx, or some of them twice or thrice longer (these jointed above the 

 middle) : petals yellow, varying nearly to white, quarter to half inch long : carpels reticu- 

 lated-rugose, subulately 2-a\vned or 2-mucrouate even before dehiscence. — Fl. Ind. 147; 

 DC. Prodr. i. 460 ; Schumann in Mart. Fl. Bras. xii. pt. 3, 325 ; E. G. Baker, Jour. Bot. 

 XXX. 238. S. ctirpini/olia of many authors, as to narrow-leaved forms. S. stipulata, Cav. 

 Diss. i. 22, t. 3, f. 10; DC. 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. 55. S. glabra, Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 

 90 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 232. — Waste ground near dwellings, Florida, perliaps not indige- 

 nous; also occasional as a ballast-weed as far north as New York. (Widely distributed in 

 tropics of both hemispheres.) 



Var.* carpinifolia, Schumann, 1. c. 326. Leaves considerably broader, ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, obtusish, rounded or even subcordate at the base. — «S'. carpinifolia, L. f. 

 Suppl. 307 ; Cav. Diss. i. 21, & v. t. 1.34, f. 1 ; Jacq. Ic. Ear. t. 135. ;S. spirmfolia. Link, 

 Enum. ii. 203; Reichenb. Ic. Bot. Exot. i. 23, t. 33. S. carpinoides, DC. Prodr. i. 461. — 

 With the type in Florida but less frequent; also on ballast at Portland, Oregon, Henderson. 

 (Mex., most tropics.) 



++ ++ Leaves all or mostly linear or oblong-linear and obtuse at both ends, serrate or den- 

 ticulate : carpels 9 to 12, glabrous, at maturity rugulose or reticulated on sides and back 

 and 2-cuspidate or 2-mucronate at summit close behind the more or less inflexed short 

 apex or rarely muticous : perennial herbs, with virgate branches : flowers yellow or in 

 one changing to purple. 



= Stem and calyx glabrous or nearly so. 



S. EUiottii, Torr. & Gray. Stems slender, a foot to a yard high : leaves mostly narrowly 

 linear (inch or more long, 1 to 3 lines wide) or some lower ones occasionally oblong, serru- 

 late : peduncles not articulated except at insertion, some shorter than the calyx but earlier 

 ones commonly little shorter than the subtending leaf : petals lialf inch or more long : mature 

 carpels strongly reticulate-rugose on the sides. — Fl. i. 231 ; Chapm. Fl. 55. S. gracilis, Ell. 

 Sk. ii. 159, not Kich. (which is an obscure W. Indian species).^ — Sandy and open woods, 

 especially on the coast, S. Carolina to Alabama, Tennessee,^ and S. Florida; first coll. by 

 Elliott. 



Var.* parviflora, Chapm. "Stem shrubby, smooth; leaves narrow-linear, obtuse, 

 downy beneath ; peduncles as long as the leaves; petals barely longer than the calyx." — 

 Fl. ed. 3, 48 (whence descr.). 6'. Lindheimeri, Chapm. Fl. eds. 1 & 2, 55, not Engelm. & 

 Gray. — " Key West, Blodgett." Not seen by the editor and from character perhaps a dis- 

 tinct species. 

 = = Stem more or less puberulent, and lower face of the leaves and calyx cinereous. 



S. Neo-Mexicana, Gray. A span to a foot or more high, and diffusely many-stemmed 

 from a ligneous base or root, minutely puberulent, hardly at all cinereous : leaves narrowly 

 linear, sometimes linear-oblong : peduncles not articulated, short or very short (rarely over 3 

 or 4 lines long) : petals orange-color, in age often changing to red, less than half inch long : 

 mature carpels muticous or barely mucronulate. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 296. S. EUiottii, 

 var.? Grav, PI. Wright, ii. 21; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 39. S. rhombifolia, var.l micro- 

 phijtla, Ilemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. i. 106. — E. New Mexico,^ Wright, Thurber, Greene; 

 S. Arizona, Lemmon. (Chihuahua, Mex., Pringle, no. 577, and San Luis Potosi, Parry & 

 Palmer, no. 88, small- and short-leaved form, Schaffner, no. 162, broader-leaved form.) 



S. Lindheimeri, Engelm. & Gray. Cinereous-puberulent, 2 or 3 feet high, erect, herba- 

 ceous to base : leaves linear-lanceolate or some lower ones oblanceolate (2 inches or more 

 long), or upper narrowly linear, commonly glabrate above: peduncles slender, about equal- 

 ling the subtending leaves (half inch to 2 inches long), articul.ited above the middle : petals 

 yellow, fully half inch long : carpels dorsally puberulent or glabrate, cuspidately 2-dentate. 

 — PI. Lindh. pt. 1, 5. S. EUiottii, with var. Texana, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 681. — Prairies of 



1 S. ruhro-marginata, Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, xxiii. 102, appears to be merely a broad-leaved form 

 of S. EUiottii. 



2 F.xtending to Stoddard Co., Missouri, Bush. 



3 Extreme W, Texas./fZc Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 40. 



