Plants oj the Punjab. 



239 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Sida rhombifolia, 



Sicet-hercla, 

 sail a d eh i. 

 Malvace.^. 

 F. B. I. i. 323. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Sida cordifolia, 



Kowar, simak. 

 Malvace.t;. 

 F. B. I. i. 324. 

 The Plains. 



Petals united. 



hke the last species, but larger, leaves squarer with 

 rounded angles, and tapering at the base, flower stalks 

 longer than the leaf stalks, stipules longer than the leaf 

 stalks, carpels 10, bea;ked with bristles or not, as long a3 

 the calyx. This plant supplies an excellent fibre. 



medium size, annual or perennial, downy with long 

 hairs, leaves 1-2 in., oblong, heart-shaped, blunt-pointed, 

 round-toothed, stalk equal in length to the blade, stipules 

 linear, shorter than the leaf stalk, soon falling off, flower 

 stalks solitary, vipper very short and crowded, flowers small, 

 yellow, carpels beaked with 10 bristles, netted on the sides, 

 bristles longer than the sepals, covered with stiff reflexed 

 hairs ; in other respects like the last species. The flowers 

 in this genus only expand at noon. 



Abutilon indicum, 



Kanghi,jhnm2^i. 



Malvace.e. 



F. B. I. i. 326. 



The Plains. 



Delhi. 



Eawalpindi(r)ouie). 



Abutilon bidentatum, 



MaLVACE/E. 



F. B. I. i. 326. 

 The Plains. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Urena repanda, 

 Hibiscus Trionum, 



medium size, annual, or perennial, more or less downy ; 

 leaves 1-2 in. long, broadly heart-shaped, short or long- 

 pointed, coarsely toothed, or nearly entire, pale and 

 minutely velvety on both surfaces, stalk longer than the 

 blade, stipules sharply bent down; flowers 1 in, diam., 

 yellow, on axillary solitary stalks, longer than the leaf 

 stalks and jointed at the top, calyx tubular, 5-lobed, ovate 

 with or without a hard sharp point, petals 5, spreading, 

 stamens as in the genus Sida above ; carpels 15-20, longer 

 than the calyx, with short spreading bristle-pointed beaks, 

 felted at first, afterwards nearly smooth, seeds one or 

 more in each carpel, kidney-shaped, dark brown, covered 

 with minute star-shaped hairs. The stems contain a good 

 fibre, the seeds are demulcent. 



like the last species, but perennial, leaves 2|-3 by 2 in., 

 heart-shaped ovate, long-pointed, round-toothed, downy 

 above and below, stalks of lower leaves 4-5 in., stipules 

 short, awl-shaped, flower stalks l|-2 in., calyx tube cup- 

 shaped, lobes ovate, short-pointed, fruit i in. diam., carpelg 

 20, smooth, oblong, twice as long as the calyx. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



