326 MALVACEiE. Sida. 



Texas and adjacent Louisiana, and south to the Kio Grande; first coll. by Berlandier, then 

 by Drummond, Lindheimer, &c. (Adj. Mex.) 



S. longipes, Gray. Somewhat scabro-puberulent, not cinereous : stems about a foot high 

 from a ligneous root, strict : leaves elongated-linear or the lower lanceolate, barely serrulate 

 or crenulate, much surpassed by the (3 to 5 iuclies long) erect peduncles ; these articulated 

 toward the summit : petals orange-color, half inch long : carpels glabrous, muticous. — l-'l. 

 Wright, i. 19, ii. 21. — W. Texas, from Live-Oak Creek to the Pecos, Wright, Woodhouse, 

 Havard.^ 



* * * Flowers pedunculate and scattered in the axils or partly paniculate : calyx not 

 angled, globular in the bud. 



S. filipes, Gray. Herbaceous from perennial root, 2 or 3 feet high, paniculately branched, 

 rather slender, fulvous-canescent with close stellular pubescence : leaves very shortpetioled, 

 lanceolate or the lower oblong, serrate, hardly acute, subcordate or truncate at base, inch or 

 two long : peduncles filiform, longer than the leaves, the small flower nodding in and after 

 an thesis : calyx-lobes (hardly over a line long) ovate, obtuse: petals deep violet-purple, 2 

 lines long : carpels about 7, obtusely apiculate at the at length dehiscent apex, glabrate, 

 the sides favose-rugose. — PI. Lindh. pt. 2, 164, & PI. Wright, i. 19. — Rocky ravines from 

 near Austin, Texas, to the Rio Grande, Wright, Schott. (Adj. Mex., Berlandier, Edwards, 

 Palmer, &c.) 



13. WISSADULA, Medic. (An E. Indian name.) — Habit of Abutilon, 



and with paniculate or subspicate yellow flowers. — Malv. 24; Presl, Rel. 



Haenk. ii. 117, t. 69; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 204. — Genus of a few tropical 



species. [Revised by B. L. Robinson.] 



"W^.* rostrata, Planch.'^ Canescent with soft and close minute pubescence, no bristly 

 hairs : leaves all cordate with deep narrow sinus, abruptly acuminate, entire, long-petioled ; 

 upper face glabrous or glabrate : flowers loosely paniculate, slender-pedicelled : petals 2 

 lines long : carpels mucronate ; seeds 3 or 4, upper puberulent, lower one hairj-. — [" Planch, 

 in"] Hook. Niger Fl. 229. W. mucromtluta, Gray in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 39. Sida 

 hernandioides, L'Her. Stirp. t. 58. Wissadula per iploci folia, var. hernandioides, Griseb. Cat. 

 Cub. 25. (Must be different from the Indian W. Zeijlanicn, Medic, which seems to be in- 

 troduced into America.) Abutilon Neallei/i, Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. i. 32, ii. 41. — 

 S. Texas, on the Rio Grande, Schott. (Adj. Mex., Berlandier, &c., W. Ind., S. Am., Afr.) 



"W.* holosericea, Garcke.^ Robust, branching, 3 to 6 feet high, densely velvety-tomeutose 

 throughout, soft and white but in age usually tawny and somewhat roughish, heavy-scented : 

 leaves broadly cordate, acute or acuminate, from almost entire to dentate, sometimes 

 obscurely 3-lobed (the smaller 2 and larger 8 to 10 inches long) : flowers short-peduncled, 

 solitary in lower axils, and later ones corymbose-paniculate at summit : petals orange- 

 yellow, half to three fourths inch long : carpels tomentose, not exceeding the short and 

 broad calyx; seeds glabrous. — Zeitschr. f. Naturw. Ixiii. 124. "] Abutilon erosum, Schlecht. 

 Linnsea, xi. 367, Jide E. G. Baker, Jour. Bot. xxxi. 74. A. holosericeum, Scheele, Linnasa, 

 xxi. 471 ; Gray, PI. Lindh. pt. 2, 162, & PI. Wright, i. 20. A. velutinum. Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 

 67, t. 125. — Rocky soil, W. Texas, Wright, Lindheimer, &c. (Adj. Mex., first coll. by 

 Berlandier.) 



14. ABUTILON, Tourn. (Probably of Arabic origin, being a name used 

 by Avicenna, for some plant, taken by commentators to be Indian Mallow.) — 

 Herbs or shrubs, of warm countries, mostly with soft stellular pubescence or 



1 Also southeastward as far as Duval Co., Texas, Nealley, fide Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 1. 32. 



2 This name is substituted for the W. mucronulata of Gray, on grounds of obvious priority, the 

 identity of the species being evident both from specimens and from synonymy cited with their origi- 

 nal descriptions. 



3 This species has been transferred from Abutilon to Wissadula, the structure of the fruit being, as 

 Garcke has pointed out, clearly of the latter genus. 



