764 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



9. Sida filipes A. Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 6: 164. 1850. 



Coahuila, Nuevo Le6n, and Tamaulipas. Texas; type collecte<l near Austin. 



Low slender shrub, the brandies linely stellate-pubescent ; leaves short- 

 petiolate, linear-oblong to lance-oblong, 2 to 7 cm. long, obtuse, cordate at base, 

 crenate; pedicels filform, about as long as the leaves; petals purple, 4 to 5 

 mm. long; carpels about 8, not beaked. 



10. Sida palmeri Baker f. Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 30: 295. 1892. 

 Sphaeralcea fruticosa T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 275. 1912. 

 San Luis Potosf ; type collected between San Luis PotosI and Tamplco. 

 Slender shrub, the branches minutely stellate-pubescent ; leaves oblong or 



lance-oblong, 1 to 3.5 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at apex, finely crenate; 

 pedicels very long and slender; petals purple, 10 to 12 mm. long; carpels 

 about 10, not beaked. 



11. Sida setifera Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 105. 1836. 

 Sonera to Tepic ; type from western Mexico. 



Slender shrub, the stems minutely stellate-tomentulose and long-pilose ; leaves 

 long-petiolate, broadly ovate-cordate, 1.5 to 7.5 cm. long, acute or obtuse, 

 crenate or dentate, densely stellate-velutinous ; flowers short-pedicellate, 

 glomerate ; calyx long-pilose ; petals yellow, 7 to 8 mm. long ; carpels not beaked. 



12. Sida cordifolia L. Sp. PI. 684. 1753. 



Sonora to Guerrero, Veracruz, and Tamaulipas. West Indies, Central Amer- 

 ica, South America, and tropical Asia and Africa. 



Shrub or herb, the branches stellate-tomentose ; leaves long-petiolate, broadly 

 cordate or rounded-cordate, 1.5 to 10 cm. long, acute or obtuse, crenate, often 

 angulate, densely stellate-tomentose, at least beneath ; flowers mostly glomerate ; 

 petals salmon-pink, 6 to 8 mm. long ; carpels not beaked. 



In India the roots are reputed to have astringent and tonic properties, and 

 are employed for fevers and nervous and urinary affections. In some parts 

 of Africa they are used as a remedy for rheumatism, because of their sup- 

 posed diuretic properties. The leaves are employed in India for ophthalmia 

 and the juice of the root for ulcers, and aphrodisiac properties are ascribed 

 to the plant. 



13. Sida salviaefolia Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 110. 1836. 

 Sida erecta Macfad. FI. Jam. 1: 80. 1837. 



Sida holwayi Baker & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5 : 176. 1899. 



Sinaloa to Guerrero and ^Morelos. Jamaica, Porto Rico, and Colombia. 



Plants chiefly herbaceous, erect, the branches minutely stellate-pubescent ; 

 leaves oblong or lance-oblong, 1 to 3 cm. long, obtuse, finely stellate-pubescent 

 beneath, crenate-serrate ; flowers subracemose; calyx 5 to 6 mm. long. 



14. Sida neomexicana A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 296. 1887. 

 Chihuahua to Durango, Jalisco, and San Luis Potosi. Western Texas to 



southern Arizona ; type from Santa Rita, New Mexico. 



Stem unusually herbaceous and 30 cm. high or less, minutely stellate- 

 pubescent; leaves 1.5 to 4 cm. long, obtuse or acute, serrate, finely stellate- 

 pubescent but green ; flowers pedicellate, borne chiefly at the ends of the 

 branches; petals orange, turning purplish, about 1 cm. long. 



15. Sida lindheimeri Engelm. & Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 5: 213. 1845. 

 Coahuila to Veracruz and Chiapas. Louisiana and Texas; type from Texas. 

 Stems chiefly herbaceous, minutely stellate-pubescent or glabrate; leaves 



short-petiolate, 1.5 to 4 cm. long, obtuse or acute, serrate, minutely stellate- 



