328 xxvi. MALVACEAE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Abut Hon. 



globose bent downwards when ripe, carpels 12 or more wrinkled mem- 

 branous awnless. Wight Ic. t. 68; W.&A.Prodr. i 56; Thwaites Emmi. 

 401. Sida crispa L. ; DC. Prodi: i. 469; Roxb. Fl. Ind, iii. 177; Wall. 

 Cat. 1857 C, D, E, F. S. indica, Cav. Diss. 33, tab. 7, f. 10? and of Ihrb. 

 Htyne. S. montana, Roxb. Ic. ined. 



WKHTEKN PENINSULA ; Nilghirrhis Mts., the Dekkan, and Coromandel. DISTRIB. 

 Tropical and subtropical America. 



A weak diffuse annual. Leaves 2-3 by 14 in.; stipules filiform. Peduncles as long 

 as the petiole, geniculate above the middle. Flowers small, yellow. Cali/x tubular 

 below, divided beyond the middle into lanceolate sepals. Carpels obtuse, nearly gla- 

 brousj 2-3-seeded. Seeds pilose. 



** Carpels not exceeding 10. 



9. A. ramosum, (,'uilL & Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 68 ; leaves ovate-cordate 

 acuminate, peduncles shorter than the petioles, sepals free for half their 

 length, ripe carpels about 10 much exceeding the sepals, hispid, awns spread- 

 ing/ Matt, in Oln\ /'/. Ti-i>. Afr. i. LS6. A. sidoides, Dak. & (Jibs. ll<n,d>. 

 FL 18. JSida ramosa, Car. fasti. 28, t. 6, f. 1. 



NORTH -\VEST PROVINCES; COKCAX, />,//:*//. I>ISTRIB. Tropical Africa. 



SuflVutescent. Jfranchc* downy and with thin spreading hairs. Leaves long- 

 petidled, sometimes 3-cuspidate, eremite-serrate. J'oltt/icli s axillary and terminal, tri- 

 chotomous. Calyx-tube broadly cup-shaped. Sepals ovate, acute. l\tal* twice as 

 long as the sepals. 



10. A. fruticosum, dnUL <( 1'n-r. FL ^ >/<</. i. 73; leaves ovate-cordate 

 acute, stipules linear, ear])els JO truncate awnless pointed but little longer 

 than the calyx. Jjoia*. FL Ori'/if. i. NO(> ; J/</.^. in ()ltt<. FL J')'<>/>. Ajr. i. 

 i>7. A. micropbyllum, A. Midi. FL J />//.*-. i. 70, t. 15. A. albidum, 

 M'./A c(- I'n'i-tli. l y lu, iii. 39, t. '2. 1 iSida jinuuna, Wall. G'"/. 148. 



,-x, Aitchewn; IKUAWADDI ? Wullich. DJSTIUB. Tropical Africa, Arabia, 



Java. 



Sufl'rutescent, covered with white: down. Leaves small, denticulate or nearly entire; 



petiole short. /' <l/i nrl< .s- solitary, axillary, shorter than the petiole, 1 :', tlowcrvd, 

 pedicels jointed above the middle. A- /"//.< ovate, acute, srar-vly cusjiidate, coinbined 

 below into a shallow c.np. Fruit cylindric, truncate, Bcaro : the culyx. 



paringly pilose. I>al/ell says the flowers of this species expand at midday like 

 the Stilus. 



11. A. neilgHerrense, Jfunro in Wiyht. III. t. 66 ; suffruticose, sub- 

 glabrous, leaves whitish beneath roundish deeply peltate-cordate acumi- 

 nate eremite; peduncles about the length of the petiole, corolla spreading, 

 carpels truncate, twice the length of the sepals. 



\VKSTEKN PENINSULA, Nilghirrhis Mts., Munro. 



Leove sometimes ?4 in. Peduncles 2-10-Howered. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 

 villous. Pt tal* obovate, united below into a short tube, hairy at the orifice. Tube of 

 the stamens glabrous. Carpela about 9. I only know this species from Munro' s descrip- 

 tion above cited. 



In addition to the foregoing species, A. auritum (Sida aurita, Wall. Cat. 1860), a 

 Javanese plant, is cultivated in India, and is sometimes met with as an escape from 

 gardens. 



