186 XXV. MALVACEAE (MASTERS). [JbutUon. 



7. A. zanzibaricum, Bojer, mss. ? An undershrub or tall perennial with 

 downy branches. Leafstalks as long or longer than the blades, which are 

 cordate, ovate, acuminate, wavy at the margins, downy on both surfaces, 

 paler beneath, 7-9-nerved. Flowers yellow, in terminal leafy panicles. Pe- 

 duncles erect or spreading, as long as the petioles, jointed. Calyx-segments 

 lanceolate, downy. Eipe fruit flat at the top, umbilicate, 1-1 1 in. diam., 

 twice the length of the persistent calyx. Carpels 20, spreading, ultimately 

 separating from the columella, oblong, very acute, blackish, membranous, 

 terminating in two teeth. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Barter ! 



Lower Guinea. Cougo, Burton ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Senua, Zambesi, Kirk I Zanzibar, Bouton ! 



8. A. ramosum, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 68. An erect branching 

 perennial clothed with dense tomentum, intermixed with long spreading 

 hairs. Leaves on long stalks, broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate, sometimes 

 3-cuspidate, slightly hairy on both surfaces, crenate-serrate, palraately 5-7- 

 nerved. Stipules linear. Peduncles axillary and terminal, shorter than the 

 petioles, slender, cylindrical, trichotomous ; pedicels jointed. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, 5-cleft ; segments acute, half the length of the white (or yellow ?) 

 roundish petals. Eipe fruit longer than the calyx. Carpels 8-10, each ter- 

 minating in two long villose spreading or reflexedawns, and splitting through 

 the dorsal suture. Seeds 2-3 in each carpel. — Sida ramosa, Cav. Diss. i. 28. 

 t. 6. f. 1. Ahutilon sparmannioides, Guill. et PeiT. Fl. Seneg. i. 70. A. 

 elceocarpoides, Webb, Frag. Fl. ^thiop. 52. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Brunner ! Perrottet ! 

 Nile Ijand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Kordofan, Sennar, Kotschy ! 

 This species occurs in Bombay and N.W. India. The Mexican A. Thurberi, A, Gray, 

 approximates very closely to it. 



9. A. indicum^ Don, Gen. Syd. i, 504. A downy perennial with leaf- 

 stalks generally shorter than the leaves, the latter cordate-ovate, acuminate, 

 irregularly crenate-dentate, 7-9-nerved, downy on both surfaces. Flower- 

 stalks solitary axillary or aggregated towards the ends of the branches, simple 

 or slightly branched, longer than the leafstalks, jointed above the middle. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, its 5 segments ovate, cuspidate, shorter than the yellow 

 petals. Eipe iruit cylindrical or narrowed below the top, truncate, of nu- 

 merous seceding carpels, each of which is oblong, acute and terminated by 

 2 points, 1 directed inwards and downwards, the other outwards and up- 

 wards. Seeds 3 in each carpel. — -S'^Wa i«c?ica, DC. Prod. i. 471. S. gran- 

 diflora, Don, Gen. Syst. i. 504. 



Upper Guinea. St. Thomas, Bon ! Niger, Barter ! Abbeokuta, Irving ! 



Nile Iiand, Speke and Grant I Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Seshike, Br. Kirk ! Manganya hills, Br. Meller ! Shamo, JDr. 

 Kirk ! 



Widely distributed throughout the tropics and variable in stature, hairiness, length of 

 carpellary teeth, etc. 



10. A. bidentatum^ Hochst. in Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 68. An erect 

 undershrub with slender downy branches. Leaves on short stalks, cordate- 



