46 MALVACEAE. [ Abutilon. 
divergent at the top and opening into 2 valves. Style-branches with ter- 
minal stigmas. — Herbs or shrubs, with the habit of Sida and the same 
ehourenibiell + range, but most pip ae in America 
In Se ae A. Indicuwm, Don., A. ( a periphoctiaasiin and A. venosum, the 
two former bidding fair to become natur aliz 
Calyx Big ‘he length of the capsule, deeply Sparel eas small, 
3—4” long 1. A. incanum. 
hay ta longer than the capsule, é- toothed, 2-3 - lobed; petals 
large, 10— 2. A. Menziesii. 
1. A. incanum, @. "Dok. “ i iow Bsehanbene gidenditab: 1—2 ft. 
high, covered with a soft and close gray pubescence. Stipules filiform, 
short. Leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate, crenate or serrate, canescent on 
both sides, gradually decreasing in size upward, the lowest 2‘ & 1%/«‘, 
on petioles of 1—11/s‘. Flowers axillary and solitary, or by reduction 
of the upper leaves sometimes subracemose, on pedicels of 1/2—1'/2’, 
which are articulate near their ends. Calyx canescent, 1'/2—2", deeply 
5-cleft into ovate- or lanceolate-acute lobes. Petals of a pale red or flesh 
color, 3—4“', obovate. Carpels 5, canescent, 4—5“ high, connate about 
8/4 their fone: into a columnar subtruncate capsule, dehiscent at the apex 
and along the dorsal sutures. Seeds 3 in each carpel, superposed, globose, 
pubescent. — Gray, Bot. U.S. E. E. p. 168. — Sida incana, Link in D 
Prod. 8. 
pesonncas on dry plains and rocky slopes of the lower regions. Nat. name: «Mao». 
2. A. Menziesii, Seem. Fl. Vit. p. 15 (in adnotat.). — A hoary shrub. 
Se ovate-cordate, 1!/2—3‘ long and nearly as broad, on petioles of 
1—2’, hoary on both faces or subglabrate above, deeply crenate or coarsely 
Pedicels axillary, solitary, 1—11/2‘, articulate in the upper third. Calyx 
oary outside and silky inside, 7—8’ long, minutely 5-toothed, but cleft 
in anthesi to one third of its length into 2 or 3 broad reflexed lobes which 
finally break away from the maturing fruit. Petals deep red, 10—12", 
unguiculate, the broad obovate, often em rginate lobes spreading or 
reflexed. Stamin cao See Capsule 5“ high, tomentose, co- 
jumnar, 7—8-celled, the pels ex ternally connate to near the acute 
apex, which wiclves idan toward the shorter axis, splitting at the 
top and along the upper third; each cell with 3 puberulous seeds. 
Stigmatic branches 2", capitate. 
Hawaii! on the Waimea side of the Kohala nth and probably also on Lanai (Lydg.). 
— Notwithstanding some discrepancy in the escription I have hardly any doubt that 
calyx. e capsule to — in the ‘iectshanin of the British Museum col- 
ands». 
B var. — Leaves finely sedaie not at all angular. Flowers light flesh- 
colored. 
Lanai! (Lydg.). 
