Abiitilon.] xxvi. MALVACEAE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 327 



Erect, perennial. Leaves 2^-3 by 2 in., downy on both surfaces, lower petioles 4-5 

 in. Peduncles 1^-2 in. Sepals ovate, acute. Calyx-tube cup-shaped. Ripe fruit 

 4 in. diam. Carpels oblong, glabrescent, twice the length of the calyx. 



5.- A. graveolens, W. & A. Prodr. L 56 ; branches covered with 

 clammy pubescence mixed with spreading hairs, leaves orbicular-cordate 

 abruptly acuminate velvety on both sides, stipules falcate, peduncles as 

 long as the petioles, sepals ovate acuminate, carpels 20 or more rounded 

 hairy. Mast, in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. i. 184; Tkwaites Enum. 27. Sida gra- 

 veolens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50, Fl. ; Ind. iii. 179 ; DC. Prodr. i. 473 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 1856, D, E, F, G. S. hirta, Wall. Cat. 1852, B partly. 



NORTH-WEST PROVINCES, SINDH, NILGHIRRHIS MTS., and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Belu- 

 chistan, Java, Tropical Africa and Australia. 



Leaves sometimes lobed ; petiole almost as long as the blade ; stipules linear, refloxed. 

 Flowers large, orange coloured, with a darker centre, ultimately reflexed. Petals ob- 

 cordate. Carpds truncate, rather longer than the calyx, not awned. The fresh plant, 

 according to Koxb'irgh, has a strong unpleasant smell. There is no constant difference 

 between this and the following form, but the var. hirtum is usually more densely hispid, 

 and its carpels are more awned and scarcely exceed the calyx. 



VAR. 1. hirtum, (T. Don Gen. Syst. i. 503 (sp.) ; stem copiously hispid, pubescence 

 brownish, leaves subscabrid above, stipules linear-subulate, carpels about 20, acute, 

 hairy, about the length of the calyx. Abujtilon hirtum, W. & A. Prodr. i. 56 ; Watt. Cat. 

 1856: Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 145. Sida hirta, Lam. Diet. i. 7 ; DC. Prodr. i. 470 ; 

 Watt. Cat. 1858 Gr ; Cav. Diss. t. 129. S. pilosa, DHer. Stirp. 130. 



6. A. muticum, G. Don Gen. Syst. i. 502 ; pubescent and hairy, leaves 

 roundish-cordate, sepals broad cuspidate, carpels about 20 reniform awnless 

 downy shorter than the calyx. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 836. A. tomentosum, 

 W. & A. Prodr. i. 56 ; Tkwaites Enum. 27 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 18. 

 A. glaucum, Don Gen. Syst. i. 504 ; Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 185. 

 Sida glauca, Cav. Ic. 1, 8, t. 11. S. hirta. Wall. Cat. 1852 B partly. S. vil- 

 losa, Wall. Cat. 1856 C. S. asiatica, Wall. Cat. 1852 D. S. mutica, Delile 

 Flor. Egypt. 60, n. 45. S. tomentosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50; FL Ind. iii. 

 178 ; Wall. Cat. 1852 A, C, D, E. 



NORTH- WEST PROVINCES, and WESTERN PENINSULA, Stocks, Fdgeivorth, &c. CEYLON, 

 Tangalle, Thwaites* DISTRIB. Affghanistan, Trop. Africa, Egypt. 



Annual or suffrutescent. Leaves tomentose on both surfaces, toothed ; petioles 2 in. ; 

 stipules lanceolate, reflexed. Peduncle* as long as the petiole, stout, jointed near the 

 flower, usually arranged in axillary nearly leafless clusters. Flowers large, orange. 

 Calyx very tomentose, divided halfway down. Petals obliquely triangular, often lobed. 

 Fruit globose, depressed at the summit. Seeds 3, scabrous. 



7. A. Avicennee, Gcertn. Carp. ii. 251 ; leaves orbicular-cordate with a 

 long point, peduncle shorter than the petiole, sepals free, nearly to the base, 

 carpellary awns ultimately widely spreading. Boiss. FL Orient, i. 836. 

 Sida Abutilon, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 470 ; Hoxb. FL Ind. iii. 178. 



NORTH-WEST INDIA, SINDH, KASHMIR, and BENGAL. DISTKIB. N. Ada and westward 

 to S. Europe, and also in N. America. 



Annual, herbaceous, softly tomentose. Leaves 3-4 in. ; petiole 3 in. Peduncles 1 in., 

 solitary, axillary. Sepals ovate, acute. Petals yellow, hardly exceeding the sepals. 

 Staminal-tube very short. Carpels 15-20, much exceeding the sepals, oblong, trun- 

 cate, hispidulous or pubescent, wilh 2 long horizontal spreading ciliolate awns. Seeds 

 P ilose - Jli^f- tor^iKUjTf^ 



8. A. CTispum.,jGr.~J)tfn Sytfc^Lr^sfer, pubescent and hairy, leaves 

 cordate roundish acuminate-crenate upper petioled or nearly sessile, fruit 



