182 XXV. MALVACE.^; (masters). [Slda. 



on the same plant I have seen carpels with two distinct awns, or with one (from cohesion 

 of two) and sometimes none at all. 



10. S. grewioideSy Gulll. ei Perr. FL Stneg. i. 71. Suffmtescent, 

 erect. Branches covered with stellate tomentum. Leafstalks shorter than 

 the oblong;, obtuse or roundish, crenate leaves, which are downy on both 

 surfaces. Flowers small, yellow, on solitary or geminate axillary pedun- 

 cles, which are shorter than the petioles. Calyx globose, lO-ribbed, 5- 

 cleft ; segments roundish or obovate, cuspidate. Carpels 7-8, indehiscent, 

 beaked or beakless ; beaks inflexed, reticulate at the sides. — S. aubrotunda, 

 Hochst. PI. Schimp. Abyss. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! 



Nile Land. Sennar, Kotschy ! Cordofan, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, Schbnper ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Forbes ! Lupata, Lr. Kirk ! Querimba, Peters ! 

 Found also at Kurrachee by Stocks, and in Arabia by Ehrenbcrg. Garcke in Peters' 

 Mossamb. Bot. p. 128, mentions a form with more robust stem and larger leaves. 



Tu addition to the preceding there is a figure and description of S. patens in Andr. Bot. 

 Rep. t. 571, said to have come from Abyssinia, but which I have failed to identify. 



4. WISSADULA, Medik; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 204. 



Bractlets none. Calyx 5-cleft. Ovary 5-celled, each cell with 2-3 or 

 rarely a solitary ovule; stigmas 5, capitate. Fruit truncate above, of 5 car- 

 pels partially connate below, divergent and pointed or beaked above, divided 

 internally by a transverse false dissepiment and splitting into 2 valves when 

 ripe. Seeds 1-2, pendulous in the lower part and ascending or rarely none 

 in the upper portion of the fruit. — A small shrub with cordate leaves and 

 small, paniculate, yellow flowers. 



The genus differs from Abutilon and Sida in the false partition that crosses the carpel- 

 lary cavity, and from Sida in the divergent, not erect, carpellary beaks. 



1. W. rostrata. Planch, in Fl. Nigrit. 229. An underslirub, thinly 

 covered with stellate hairs. Leaves, except the uppermost, on long stalks, 

 cordate-ovate, acuminate, nearly entire, smooth above, dow^ny and white be- 

 low. Stipules linear, subulate. Inflorescence a large, loose, panicled cyme. 

 Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla yellow, exceeding the calyx. Carpels 5, when ripe 

 three times the length of the calyx, united below, free above, each one burst- 

 ing above by two valves and divided by a false partition into two halves. 

 Seeds pendulous or ascending, the lower ones often much more tomentose 

 than the upper. — S. rostrata, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 306. Ahuiilon 

 Inxiflorum, (juill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 66. A. periplocifoUum, Don, Gen. 

 Syst. i. 500; Webb, Spicil. Gorgon. 108. S. periplocifolia, Linn.; DC. 

 Prod. i. 467. TV. heterosperma, Hochst. in PI. Schimp. Abyss. S. hete- 

 rosperma, Hochst. in PI. Kotsch. Nub. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Vogel ! St. Thomas, Bon I Senegambia, Perrottet ! 

 Niger, Barter ! 



Nile Ijand. '^whi^i, Kotschy ! Ahyssinisi, Schimper ! KorAofaiXiyCieMkows&i; Sennar, 

 Heughlin ; White Nile, v. Harnier. 



Iiower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! 



