GENERA AND SPECIES. 
Flowers axillary. 
Herb, low, much branched; leaves cuneate- 
oblong toothed at the end, slightly hoary; 
flowers in distant clusters along the leafy 
branches... a ait bi 
Shrub, dwarf, rigid, covered with scurfy scales; 
branches often spinescent; leaves linear to 
oblong-cuneate, very small, 3-toothed at the 
base; flowers minute, 1 to 3 together, almost 
sessile aii a ‘ 
Sida. 
1. Calyx not prominently ribbed. Carpels 
strongly reticulate on the sides. Petals 
yellow or whitish. 
Calyx-lobes obtuse, not protruding beyond the fruit. 
Carpels 6 to 10, wrinkled on the back, glabrous; 
fruit 24 to 4 lines diam. Semiherbaceous, pro- 
cumbent, stellately hairy; leaves linear-elliptical 
to orbicular-cordate, crenate; stipules linear- 
filiform; flowers axillary, usually solitary, on 
slender stalks rarely as long as the leaves; petals 
yellow twice as long as calyx 
Carpels 5 to 8, hairy, but without wrinkles on the 
back; fruit 2 lines in diameter. A dwarf much- 
branched shrub, stellately hairy; with very 
small leaves and flowers Af ie : 
Calyx-lobes acute, persistently herbaceous. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear; calyx very 
woolly ; carpels 6 to 8, wrinkled on the back. 
An erect shrub with long twiggy branchlets 
Leaves ovate- or orbicular-cordate; stamens few ; 
carpels | line in diameter ... 
Calyx-lobes acuminate with long subulate woolly points. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or cordate ... 
Calyx-lobes enlarged and thinner after flowering. 
Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, of rather thick con- 
sistence. An erect shrub, beset with stellate 
tomentum; leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear, 
1 to 14in. long, shortly stalked. Flowers | to 3 
together on stalks shorter than the leaves; petals 
yellow, longer than the calyx; stamens 10-15; 
fruit depressed, tomentose, wrinkled on the back 
and furrowed between the carpels (usually 
about 7). 
glomeratus 
microphyllus 
corrugata 
. Intricata 
virgata 
cardiophylla 
cryphiopetala 
petrophila 
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