MONADELPHIA. POLYANDKFA. Si 



Common around New-Orleans. A thorny and spreading-, 

 skrub 6 to 10 feet hig'h, witli very fragrant yellow (lowers. 

 A very extensive tropical genus, almost exclusively in- 

 digenous to America and India* 



476. SCHRANKIA. Willd. Mimosx. Mich, 

 Polygamous. — Crt?i<r tubulous, S-toothed. J^e- 

 tals 5. Stamina 8 to 10, exsertcd. Silique 4- 

 valved. 



Herbaceous and procumbent, aculeate; leaves bipiii* 

 nate; flowers capitate, reddish. 



Species. S. uncinata- Leaves irritable^ contractVng 

 frosn the touch. Hab. From Yirghiia to Florida, and 

 throughout Lower Louisiana. — The only species known,] 



IV.— POLYANDRIA. 

 477. SIDA. /.. 



Calix 5-cleftj simple. Style multipartite. 

 Capsules many, 1 or 3-seeded. 



Shrubby or herbaceous, rarely arborescent, flowers ax* 

 illary or terminal; pedicells articulated. * 



Species. 1. <S'. spinosa. 2. hispida. Ph. A Malva? 3. 

 rhomhij'fjli'a. 4. crispa. 5. Ahvtilon. 6. J\'afn?a. Pedun- 

 cles distinctly articulated. 7. dioica. 8. aldeoides. 



A genus of nearly 120 species, chiefly indigenous to 

 tropical America and India. 



178. MALVA. X. (Mallow.)" 



Calix doiibla; the exterior mostly 3-leaved* 

 Petals 5. Capsules many, 1 -seeded, disposed or- 

 bicularly. 



Shrubby or herbaceous; leaves alternate and stipulate, 

 undivided, or palmately lobed; flowers axillary or termi- 

 nal, solitary, more or less aggregated or racemose. (Pu- 

 bescence stellate.) 



Species. 1. JiT. abntiloides. 2. caroUniana. A Sida? 

 5. rotnndifrjlin Introduced. 4. triloba. In Carolina. 5. 

 * coccinea. T. X. in Fras. Catal. 1813. A very beautiful 

 species with scarlet fiOv,-ers disposed in dense recemesi 



