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2. Sida anomala St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. 1: 177. pi. SS. 1825. 



Tepic and probably elsewhere. Central America and South America. 

 Stems chiefly or wholly herbaceous, strigose ; leaves 1 to 3 cm. long, obscurely 

 serrate, obtuse or acute, glabrous above ; petals purplish. 



3. Sida linif olia Juss. ; Cav. Monad. Diss. 14. pi. 2, t. 1. 1785. 

 Sida longifolia T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 212. 1905. 



Sinaloa and Jalisco to Guerrero and Veracruz. West Indies, Central America, 

 South America, and tropical Africa. 



Plants chiefly herbaceous, arect, the stems sparsely pilose; leaves short- 

 petiolate, 3 to 9 cm. long, acute, sparsely hirsute or glabrate ; flowers pedicellate, 

 in small corymbs or short racemes at the ends of the branches ; petals white or 

 yellowish, 7 to 10 mm. long ; carpels about 7, not beaked. 



4. Sida lodiegensis Baker f. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 311. 1895. 

 Sinaloa ; type from Lodiego. 



Plants tall and much branched, the stems minutely stellate-pubescent ; leaves 

 short-petiolate, 3 to 11 cm. long, alternate, obscurely serrate, sparsely and 

 minutely stellate-pubescent beneath ; flowers subracemose ; petals about 4 mm. 

 long ; carpels 5. 



5. Sida stricta Standi., sp. nov. 



Sinaloa and Tepic; type from MazatlS.n, Sinaloa (Rose, Standley & Russell 

 14110; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 636966). 



Stems fruticose below, about 1 meter high, densely stellate-pubescent with 

 fulvous hairs; leaves short-petiolate, 2 to 6 cm. long, acute, thick, serrate, 3- 

 nerved, very densely stellate-tomentose ; flowers axillary, the pedicels 1 cm. 

 long or less; calyx lobes acute, densely stellate-pubescent; petals 4 mm. long, 

 bright yellow ; carpels 5, not beaked. 



6. Sida pyramidata Desport. ; Cav. Monad. Diss. 11. pi. 1, f. 10. 1785. 

 Sida dumosa Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 101. 1788. 



Sida hilariana Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 107. 1836. 



Sida cincrea Baker f. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3 : 311. 1895. 



Tepic to Guerrero, Puebla, and Veracruz. West Indies, Central America, and 

 Colombia ; type from Santo Domingo. 



Slender shrub, 1 to 3 meters high, the branches very minutely stellate- 

 pubescent ; leaves long-petiolate, rounded-cordate, 4 to 15 cm. long, abruptly 

 acute or acuminate, crenate or dentate, minutely stellate-pubescent or glabrate ; 

 calyx loosely stellate-pubescent and usually pilose ; petals yellow, 7 to 8 mm. 

 long ; carpels about 7, not beaked. 



7. Sida paniculata L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1145. 1759. 



Veracruz and Oaxaca. West Indies, Central America, and South America. 



Slender erect shrub or herb, the branches densely stellate-pubescent with 

 coarse fulvous hairs ; leaves short-petiolate, ovate or lance-ovate, 4.5 to 11 cm. 

 long, acuminate, densely pubescent; flowers in loose glabrate panicles, the 

 pedicels filiform ; petals red, 3 to 4 mm. long ; carpels 5, not beaked. 



8. Sida tehuacana T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 274. 1912. 

 Known only from the type locality, TehuacSn, Puebla. 



Stems purplish, glabrate ; leaves slender-petiolate, ovate or deltoid-lanceolate, 

 3 to 4 cm. long, acuminate, glabrate ; inflorescence loosely paniculate, glabrate, 

 the pedicels filiform; petals purple, 8 mm. long; carpels 7, not beaked. 



