90 FLOE A OF MADRAS. [Sida. 



5. SIDA SCHIMPERIANA, Hochst. ; F. B. I. i. 322. Eiedleia 

 truncata, W. & A. 66 (not of DC.). 



E. Coast Districts at Madras, S. Arcot ; Deccan, not 

 common. 



6. SIDA ACUTA, Burrn. ; W. & A. 57 ; Wt. Ic. t. 95. S. carpini- 

 folia, Linn, f.; F. B. I. 323. 



A weed of waste places, very common in all plains Districts, 

 often also in woods. 



7. SIDA RHOMBIFOLIA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 323 (partly). 



A weed of waste places, in all plains Districts. 



8. SIDA RHOMBOIDEA, Eoxb. ; W. & A. 57. 8. rhombifolia, Linn, 

 var. rhomboidea, Masters in F. B. I. i. 324. 



W. Coast Districts, S. Canara to Travancore ; Mysore. 



4. Abutilon, Gaertn. 



Tomentose shrubs or herbs. Leaves usually cordate and long- 

 petioled, dentate, rarely slightly lobed. Flowers solitary or rarely 

 racemose paniculate or umbellate, on axillary peduncles which are 

 jointed near the top, yellow or orange ; involucral bracteoles 0. 

 Calyx of 5 valvate sepals, united below into a short tube. Corolla' 

 of 5 imbricate petals, adnate below to the staminal tube. Stamens 

 numerous, free above. Carpels 5-many ; styles as many as the 

 carpels; stigmas small, capitate. Ripe carpels ultimately separat- 

 ing from the short central axis, dehiscent, 1-5-seeded, usually 

 acute or mucronate. Seeds reniform. Fibre -yielding plants. 



Carpels 5, twice as long as the acuminate sepals ; staminal tube short, 

 hairy at the top ; flowers 1*5 in. across, in terminal panicles 



1. polyandrum. 

 Carpels 8-10, hispid, *4 in. long; stem with close thin tomentum 



2. ramoswn. 

 Carpels 10-20 : 

 Carpels pointed or mucronate : 



Stem with smooth close tomentum ; carpels with thin tomentum 

 and scattered tufts of stiff hairs, both eventually deciduous ; seeds 



minutely furrowed, glabrous 3. imlicum. 



Stem with spreading hairs : 

 Ripe carpels with dense spreading persistent shaggy hairs 



4. (isiaticum. 

 Ripe carpels shortly pubescent ; seeds with minute white hairs 



5. hirtum, 



