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muticous carpels. Our species is related to S. Elliottii and S. Lindheimeri, but is 

 distinguished from both by its longer petioles, long peduncles, and entirely muticous 



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carpels. 



51. S. PHYsocALYX, Grai/, Pl Lindh.2, p. 163. Western Texas; May- June 

 This species, S. hastata, St Hil, and S. physalodes, Presl, form a section, remark- 

 able for the bladdery inflated calyx, which may be distinguished ^by the name of 

 Physalodes.* 



52. Anoda hastata, Ca 



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t 11. / 2; Gray, Gen. Hl. 2 



124 



Presidio 



de San Elisario ; Sept. " Probably introduced." 



53. Abutilox holosericeum, ScheeJe in Linnceaj 21. p. 471. A. velutinum, Gray, 

 Gen. III. 2. t 125. Hills on the Rio Grande, and east to San Marcos, Texas. 



•j" A. HOLOSERiCEUM, var. foliis plerisque subtrilobis. Hills of the San Pedro or _ 



DeviFs Kiver; Aug. 



54. A. Wrightii (Grai/, Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 162. adnot): caulibus decumbentibus 

 vel suberectis ramosis; ramis viscoso-pubescentibus et pilis gracillimis patentibus 

 villosis ; foliis ovato-cordatis obtusiusculis argute dentatis supra viridulis scabrido- 

 pubescentibus subtus mollissime niveo-tomentosis ; stipulis subulatis caducis; pe- 

 dunculis unifloris petiolum sequantibus vel superioribus folium minorem superanti- 

 bus ; calyce tomentoso 5-partito, laciniis sensim acuminatissimis corollam auream 

 subsequantibus ; capsula lanuginoso-pilosa calyci sequilonga e carpellis 7 apice 

 subulato-aristatis 3-spermis. — Common from the Hio Seco, Texas, westward; 

 June - July. — Stems herbaceous. Leaves thin, the larger ones only two inches 

 long ; the petioles, like the branches and peduncles, beset with soft spreading hairs. 

 Corolla over an inch in diameter. Capsule half an inch long; the thin carpels 

 not inflated, little spreading, the subulate beak about one third its length.f 



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* Sida Napoea, Cav. (Napoea la>vis, Linn.), T have just received specimens of, through my friend, the 

 Rev. J. F. Holton, gathered in Kanawha County, Virginia, by the Rev. James M. Brovvn, who states that 

 the plant is truly indigenous there. It has not hefore been found since the days of Hermann, who more 

 than a century ago received seeds of it from Virginia. 



t A related species, possibly A. ellipticum, Schlecht., is Gregg's No. 495, from Azufrora, and also, I be- 

 lieve, No. 840 of Coulter's Mexican collection. Another allied North Mexican, and also Texan, specics is 



Abcttilon hvpoleucuim (sp. nov.) : herbaceum, caule erecto ramoso albo-tomentoso ; foliis e basi pro- 

 funde cordata (sinu nunc clauso) elongato-ovatis sensim acuminatis seu cordato-lanceolatis eroso-serratis 

 subtus mollissime candido-tomentosis supra scabrido-pubescentibus aut subvelutinis ; pedunculis axillaribus 

 sa^pius unifloris petiolo longioribus ; calycis candido-tomentosi 5-partiti angulati laciniis ovatis quasi cordatis 

 acuminatis coroUam flavam capsulamque subajquantibus ; carpellis 12 et ultra villosis lon^e subulato- 

 tratis 3-spermis. — Monterey, Berlandier (v. s. in herb. Hook.), Dr. Gregg, &c. Zimapan, Couller (No. 

 815). Near New Braunfels, Lindheimer (1850). — Stems 2-4 feet high : branchlets more or less pubes- 

 cent, with soft spreading hairs, as well as a close and lanuginous covering. Leaves 2 or 3 inches long ; the 

 close tomentum of the under surface remarkably soft and white. Carpcls over half an inch lon<r, includ- 

 ing the subulate beak, which is hardly as long as in A. Wrightii ; their summits diverging at maturity. 

 In foliage and indumentum this species considerably resembles the Abutilon peraffine, ShuUkworth, PZ. 

 Rugel, no.95\ from Key West (which is the species I had mentioned in Gen. III. 2. p. 67, note, and er- 

 roneously taken for the Caribbean Sida periplocifolia) : but that has smaller flowers, a diflerent calyx, 

 and beakless, barely acute carpels, and in this latter character chiefly differs frora A. permolle, Shuttle' 

 worfh, Pl. Rugel, no. 95% from Southern Florida, which has acuminate-subulate carpels. This is very 

 probably the Sida permoUis, Willd. Enum., and it is the same as a plant coUected in Cuba hy Drummond, 

 named in Hooker's herbarium " Abutilon lisnosum. RirW// ." _n*.rV,nnc t.;= A ^^^r.^fifl 



gnosum, Richard, 



perhaps his A. confertiflorum. 



