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or some of them axillary, solitary and short-pedicelled ; calyx hirsute, 5-cleft, 

 angular, 6-7 mm. long, its triangular-ovate, acute or acuminate teeth about as 

 long as the tube; petals yellow, reddish at base; carpels 5, glabrous 2- 



denticulate. ' 



Waste and cultivated land, New Trovidence at Nassau : — Cuba to Porto Rico 

 and Trinidad ; continental tropical America ; Old World tropics. Sticky Sida. 



6. Sida glutinosa Comm.; Cav. Diss. 1: 16. 1785. 



Sida nervosa DC. Prodr. 1: 465, 1824. 



Erect, 5-10 dm. high, branched, the stem and branches densely tomentulose, 

 somewhat glutinous, sometimes also with long spreading hairs. Leaves ovate 

 to lanceolate, 8 cm. long or less, acuminate at the apex, cordate at the base, 

 crenulate, the lower long-petioled, the upper usually much smaller than the 

 lower and shorter-petioled; flowers 1-several in the axils or in terminal 

 panicles; pedicels filiform, mostly much longer than the calyx, pubescent; calyx 

 angled, 3-4 mm. long, its 5, broadly ovate, sharply acute teeth shorter than the 

 tube; petals yellow, about twice as long as the calyx; carpels 5, pubescent 

 above, 2-aristate. 



Waste and cultivated land, New Providence at Nassau : — Cuba to Porto Kico, 

 St. Jan and Trmidad ; continental tropicai America : Old World tropics. Sticky 



Sida. 



7. Sida procumbens Sw. Prodr. 101. 1788. 



Sida supina L'Her. Stirp. :N'ov. 109-. 1789. 



Branched at the base, the branches slender, prostrate or nearly so, 1-6 dm. 

 long, densely puberulent, glabrate or pilose. Leaves ovate or ovate-orbicular, 

 1-2.5 cm. long, slender-petioled, crenate, obtuse at the apex, cordate at the base, 

 densely puberulent on both sides; peduncles axillary, solitary, about as long 

 as the leaves or shorter, or longer, filiform, s-ometimes pilose ; calyx about 4 mm. 

 long, puberulent or pilose, its 5 ovate acuminate lobes somewhat shorter than 

 the angled tube; petals pale yellow or white, 4-6 mm. long; carpels mostly 5, 

 reticulate, 2-beaked, about 2 mm. long. 



Fields, pastures and waste places, New Providence, Eleuthera, Long Island, 

 Fortune Island, South Caicos, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : — Florida ; West Indies ; 

 continental tropical America. Creeping Sida. 



8. Sida acuminata DC. Prodr. 1: 462. 1824. 



Sida acuminata Bracei E. Baker, Journ. Bot. 30: 295. 1892. 



Densely stellate-pubescent, usually branched, somewhat woody, erect, 5-8 

 dm. high, branched or sometimes simple. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 rather short-petioled, 2-7 cm. long, acute, obtuse or acuminate at the apex, 

 rounded, or subcordate at the base, low crenate-serrate; flowers few or solitary 

 in the axils, and often in small terminal clusters, nearh' sessile or filiform- 

 peduncled, the peduncles sometimes 2-3 cm. long; calyx 5-6 mm. long, terete, 

 its 5, broadly ovate, acute teeth somewhat shorter than the tube; petals yellow, 

 4-5 mm. long; carpels 5-8, stellate-pubescent, scarcely beaked. 



Roadsides and waste places, Abaco, New Providence, Eleutbora. Cat Island, 

 Rum Cay, Great Exuma, Long Island, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, Acklins and 

 Mariguana, East Caicos: — Cuba to Virgin Gorda and Antigua; Central America. 

 Races differ in the number and size of the flowers. A'elvety Sida. 



6. BASTARDIA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 5: 254. 1821. 



Velvety-pubescent or tomentose shrubs or perennial herbs, with petioled 

 cordate leaves, and small yellow peduncled flowers, solitary or few in the 

 axils. Involucel none. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-cleft. Petals 5. Stamen-column 



