Sida.] xxvi. MALVACEAE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 323 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Carnatic and the Dekkan, Wight, &c. DISTEIB. Abyssinia, 

 S. Africa. 



A woody undershrub, with a thick rootstock. Branches intricate, decumbent or 

 erect. Leaves 4 in., sparingly covered with stellate hairs , petiole very short. Flower* 

 solitary, axillary, shortly petioled. Sepal* 5, connate below the middle in a cup shaped 

 tube. Petals pink. Carpels ultimately dehiscing along the inner edge. 



4. S. spinosa, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 460 ; shrubby, erect, branches often 

 with spiny tubercles below the variable leaves, which are hoary beneath, 

 carpels 5, beaks erect. S. alba, L. ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 58 ; DC. Prodr. b: ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind, iii. 174; Thwaites Enwm. 28: Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl 17. 

 S. retusa, Wight Cat. 195, not of Linn. S. alnifolia, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 4(51 ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 174 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 58 ; Wall. Cat. 1873. S. glan- 

 dulosa, Roxb. msa. ex W. & A. Prodr. i. I.e. S. Boriara, Wall. Cat. 1872. 



Hotter parts of India, from the NORTH- WEST PROVINCES to CEYLON. DI.STRIB. 

 Tropics generally. 



Leaves about f in., ovate obovate or linear-lanceolate, obtusely serrate, base cordate, 

 some-times cuneate : petiole 4 in- Peduncles solitary or clustered, jointed near the flower, 

 equalling or exceeding the petiole. /Sepals deltoid, connate below into a cup-shapMl 

 tube. Carpels membranous, scarcely longer than the calyx. 



5. S. grewioides, Guill. & Perr. Fl. /Seneg. i. 71 ; a cano-tomen- 

 tose undershrub, leaves oblong-ovate obtuse, calyx-tube angular, carpels 

 7-8 wrinkled awned, beaks connivent. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 835 ; Mast, in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 182. 



NORTH-WEST PROVINCES and SINDH. DISTRIB. Arabia, Tropical Africa. 



Leaves about \ in., crenate, downy on both surfaces ; petiole shorter than the blade. 

 Stipules linear-subulate, scarcely so long as the petiole. Peduncles solitary or twin, 

 shorter than the petioles. Floicers yellow, small. Carpels indehiscent, or nearly r so. 



6. S. carpinifolia, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. ^60 ; an undershrub, leaves 

 nearly glabrous narrow acuminate serrate, stipules linear-subulate longer 

 than the petiole, peduncle jointed in the middle as long as the petiole, 

 sepals triangular acute, calyx-tube siibglobose, carpels 5-9 rugose awned. 

 Wall. Cat. 1871. S. acuta, Burm. ; Can. Diss. i. t. 2, f. 3 ; DC. Prodr. i. 461 ; 

 Walt. Cat. 1868, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 171 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 57 ; 

 Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 17 ; Thwaites Enum. 27; Wight Ic. t. 95 ; Wall. Cat. 

 1868 G. S. lanceolata, Roxb. I.e. 175 ; Wall. Cat. 1868 F. S. stipulata, Car. 

 Diss. i. t. 3, f. 10; DC. Prodr. i. 460; W. & A. Prodr. I.e. S. Stauntoniana, 

 DC. I.e. ; 8. scoparia, Lour, ex W. & A. I.e. Rheede, Uort. Mai. x. t. 53. 



Generally distributed throughout the hotter parts of India. DISTRIB. Tropics 

 generally. 



Perennial. Leaves about 2-3 in., linear-lanceolate ; petiole rg-iV ^ n - 1 stipules 

 many-nerved, two or three times longer than the petiole. Petals yellow, twice the 

 h-::gth of the calyx. De Candolle's S. compressa, from Nipal, which I have not seen, 

 is described as having the leaves hoary beneath, and the peduncles three times as long 

 as the petiole. 



7. S. rhombifolia, Linn. ; shrubby, erect, leaves polymorphous taper- 

 ing at the base, peduncle longer than the petiole, carpels 10 awned or not, as 

 long as the calyx. DC. Prodr. i. 462; Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 17(5 ; Wall. Cut. 

 1862, 2; Thwaites Enum. 28. S. canariensis, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. i 4(52. Sida 

 compressa, Wall. Cat. 1866; DC. Prodr. i. 462. 



Widely distributed throughout India. DISTRIB. Tropics of both hemispheres. 



Very variable, perennial, glabrous or with scattered stellate hairs. Li-arc* generally 

 more or less rhomboid, under side hoary, rarely green; stipules ihieAr-setaceous, longer 

 than the petiole. Peduncle rarely less than twice as long as the petiole, axillary or 

 clustered at the ends ot the branches. Flowers yellow, rarely white, titpals delt oi 



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