22, PLANTE FENDLERIANE. 
the flowers are not so large as is represented in the figure of Cavanilles. Our plant is 
herbaceous. — The Spheeralcea stellata, Torr, § Gray, Fl. l. c. is probably only a smaller- 
ta. — Texas, Mr. Charles Wright, Lindheimer ! — Stems 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves thickish, about 14 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. 
6. M. carpiniroLiom. —Sida carpinifolia, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 307; Cav. Diss. 1. t. 1384. f. 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. spirlefolia, Willd. Enum. Suppl. fide Walp. 8. 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. f.3; St. Hil. 
lc. p. 214. M. Americana, Cav. 1. c. t. 22. f. 2. M. Domingensis, Spreng. in DC. 1. 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 back, 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. aNGUsSTUM: 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 levibus membranaceis mox bivalvi- 
bus. — Sida hispida, Pursh, Fl. 2. p. 452? Hook.! Jour. Bot. 1. p. 198. Malva perpusilla, Nutt. ! 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- 
6. SIDA, Linn. (excl. sp.) 
Calyx sepius angulatus, nudus, rarove bracteolis 1-2 deciduis involucellatus. Tubus stamineus simplex. 
oo oa terminalia capitellata. Ovulum in loculis solitarium, resupinato-suspensum! Capsula 5—- 15-cocca ; 
lla rectiuscula indehiscentia vel sepius apice bivalvia, ab axi centrali tarde secedentia. 
gonum, umbilico sursum spectante. 
Semen subtri- 
Embryo conduplicatus, curvatura infera, radicula (ventrali) cotyledoni- 
busque superis ! — Herbz aut suffrutices (plerisque tropicis v. subtropicis) ; foliis seepius indivisis. 
Sida, Kunth in H. B. K. Nov. Gen. (excl. sp.) ; Adr. Juss. in St. Hil, Fl. Bras. 
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