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the flowers are not so large as is represented in the figure of Cavanilles. Our plant is 

 herbaceous The Sphreralcea stellata, Torr. &• Grmj, Fl. I. c. is probably only a smaller- 



ta. — Texas, Mr. Charles Wright, Lindheimer ! — Stems 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves thickish, about li inch 

 long ; the lower ones rounder. Peduncle one third of an inch in length, rather shorter than the calyx. 

 Petals golden-yellow, oblique, three fourths of an inch long. 



y 6. M. carpinifoliitm. — Sida carpinifolia, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 307; Cav. Diss. 1. t. 134./. 1; DC. 

 Prodr. 1. p. 461 ; St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 1. p. 184; Webb. <$• Berth. Canar. 2. p. 37. S. planicaulis, Cav. Diss, 

 t. 3. f. 11. S. spirla?folia, Willd. Enum. Suppl. fide Walp. S. bracteolata, DC. and S. carpinoides, DC. 

 I. c. Malva tricuspidata, Ait. Kew. ed. 2. 4. p. 210. M. subhastata, Cav. Diss. 2. p. 72. t. 21. /. 3 ; St. Hil. 

 1. c. p. 214. M. Americana, Cav. I. c. t. 2 - 2. /. 2. M. Domingensis, Spreng. in DC. I. c. ? — Key West, 

 Blodgett ! Texas, Lindheimer ! Wright ! Mexico, Coulter ! Gregg ! &c. — Of the greater part of these 

 synonymes I entertain no doubt. The native Texan specimens, and those in cultivation raised from Texan 

 seeds, which, having comparatively simply toothed leaves, the lower broadest at the base or deltoid-ovate, 

 represent the Malva tricuspidata and the Sida carpinoides of De Candolle, agree far too closely with S. carpi- 

 nifolia from Madeira (which is probably of American origin) to allow of a specific distinction. The calyx in 

 all is tribracteolate, or only 1 -2-bracteolate in some of the later flowers. The fruit appears to be absolutely 

 alike in both. The depressed capsule consists of about 10 (8- 11) conduplicate-reniform carpels with a very 

 deep ventral sinus, armed with two short cusps or points on the hack, and with a much longer and setaceous 

 apical one (" carpellis 3-cuspidatis," and " carpellis dorso breviter bicornutis et basi interna 1-aristatis"), 

 which in dehiscence is bipartible (then " carpellis biaristatis"). The seed is deeply reniform and conformed 

 to the cell, and the embryo semiannular, with the radicle inferior and centripetal. 



(M. spicatum, = Malva spicata, Linn., which was gathered by Dr. Gregg at Monterey, Mexico, has some- 

 what similar, but pointless, carpels.) 



'' 7. M. angustum : annuum, appresse pilosum ; caule gracili ; foliis lanceolatis vel lineari-oblongis petio- 

 latis rariter serratis ; stipulis setaceis ; pedunculis axillaribus plerumque solitariis circ. longitudine petiolorum; 

 bracteolis involucelli 2-3 setaceis calyce brevioribus; segmentis calycis latissime ovatis subcordatis acumina- 

 tis post anthesin ampliatis ; carpellis 5 obtusis omnino muticis puberulis lasvibus membranaceis mox bivalvi- 

 bus. — Sida hispida, Pursh, Fl. 2. p. 452 ? Hook. ! Jour. Bot. 1. p. 198. Malva perpusilla, Nutl. .' Mss. in 

 Herb. Torr. (spec, depaup.) — This is probably Pursh's plant ; but I have not seen it from Georgia. Drum- 

 mond gathered it at St. Louis, whence I have also received it from Dr. Engelmann ; and Nuttall found depau- 

 perate specimens on the plains of Red River. The carpels and seed are reniform, and the radicle centripetal- 

 inferior. 



6. SIDA, Linn. (excl. sp.) 



Calyx saepius angulatus, nudus, rarove bracteolis 1-2 deciduis involucellatus. Tubus stamineus simplex. 

 Stigmata terminalia capitellata. Ovulum in loculis solitarium, resupinato-suspensum ! Capsula 5- 15-cocca ; 

 carpella rectiuscula indehiscentia vel soepius apice bivalvia, ab axi centrali tarde secedentia. Semen subtri- 

 gonum, umbilico sursum spectante. Embryo conduplicatus, curvatura infera, radicula (ventrali) cotyledoni- 

 busque superis ! — Herbse aut suflrutices (plerisque tropicis v. subtropicis) ; foliis saepius indivisis. 



Sida, Kunlh in H. B. K. Nov. Gen. (excl. sp.) ; Adr. Juss. in St. Hil Fl. B/-as. 



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