S I D 



S I D 



SHOT INDIAN. See Canna. 



S!DA, a gcnuB containing plants of the ex- 

 otic, tender, herbaceous, perennial kind, for tiie 

 hot-house. 



It belongs to the class and order Manndelphia 

 Pnh/andria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Colum/iiferce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed peiianth, angular, half-fjve-cleft, perma- 

 nent : the corolla has five petals, wider above, 

 emarginate, fastened below to the tube of sta- 

 mens : the stamina hive very many i^la- 

 ments, united below into a tube, in the apex 

 of the tube divided: anthers roundish : the 

 pisfillnm is an orbicular germ : styles five or 

 more; or else one manv-cleft : stigmas headed: 

 the pcricarpium is a roundish-angular capsule, 

 composed of live or more cells, (corresponding 

 with the number of riie stj/ies or stigmas,) two- 

 vaived, awnless, acuminate or horned, opening 

 above-, or close, and finally separating: the seeds 

 sohtary, two, three, or five, roundish, mostly 

 acuminate, convex on one side, angular on the 

 other, fastened to the interior suture. 



The species chiefly cultivated are: I . S. rhont- 

 I'l folia, Rhomb-leaved Sida; 2. S. periplocifolia, 

 Great Bindweed-leaved Sida ; 3. 5. tiiqiietra. 

 Triangular-stalked Sida; 4. S. Ahut'thn, Broad- 

 leaved Sida; 5. S. alba^ White-floweied Sida; 

 6. S. cordifo/ia. Heart-leaved Sida. 



The first has the leaves lanceolate rhomb- 

 shaped with the axils two-thorned. It is a 

 native of the East Indies and Jamaica. 



The second species has an annual root : the 

 stem from two to four feet high, erect, simple, 

 round, pubescent, sometimes divided towards 

 the top into spreading branches : the leaves pe- 

 tioled, alternate, smooth, somewhat wrinkled, 

 hoary beneath : the panicle terminating, half 

 the Itrngth of the stem, erect, almost simple, 

 spreading : the peduncles simply subdivided, 

 alternate, filiform, the last one-flowered : the 

 flowers pale, sometinies light purple. It is a 

 native of the West Indies and Ceylon. 



The third species is a shrub three feet in 

 height, with subtomentose branches, having 

 each of the three sides hollowed out with a 

 blunt groove : the leaves cordate without angles, 

 verv soft, obscurely tomentose, bluntly serrate, 

 acuminate : the peduncles axillary, one-flowered : 

 the flow er is of a yellow colour. It is a native 

 of the West Indies. 



The fourth species is in height about four 

 feet, putting out some side branches towards the 

 top : the leaves soft and woolly : the flowers 

 axillary, on long peduncles It is annual, and 

 a native both of the East and West Indies, Vir- 

 giaiia, and Siberia. 



The fifth has the leaves round : the corolU 

 is white with purple st'irmas, and the tips of the- 

 petal-, purplish. It is annual. 



The sixth h.is a hair-' annual root : the slcin 

 simple, more tfian throe feet high, sending out 

 several erect brancheg fioni the sides : tlie leaves 

 two inches and a half luig, and two broad, of a, 

 light green colour, soh to the touch, on very 

 Jong hairy footstalks : the calvx hairv : beak'J 

 of the seeds, when the corolla falls, prominent, 

 in a bundle the length of tli ■ calyx: liie capsules 

 from seven to ten : the flowers small, of a pale 

 obscure yellow- or sulph'.tr colour. It is a na- 

 tive of the East Indies and the Cape. 



Culture. — I'iiese plants may be increased by 

 feeds, wliicb should be sown upon a moderate 

 trwt-bed^in the early spring, or in pots deposited 

 in them. In the first case, when the plants 

 have attained some growth, ihey should be re- 

 moved to another hot-bed and set out four 

 inches apart each way, or into separate pots, 

 repUmging them in the hot-bed, being shaded till 

 they have taken new root ; a large prop- rl ion of 

 free air being admitted in fine weather, and also 

 frequent waterings : they should afterwards ha 

 gradually hardened to bear the open air in the 

 summer season. 



Some of them may also be raised from offsets 

 and cuttings planted in pots in the SLimnner 

 season. 



The fourth sort is sufficiently hardy to bear 

 the open air : the seeds should be sown where 

 tlie plants are to remain, as they do nf>t bear 

 transpir.nting well. It is an annual plant. 



Some of the species do not flower till the se- 

 cond vear ; of course they should be placed in 

 the stove in the autumn, and be managed during 

 the winter as other tender exotic plants of the 

 same nature. 



They aflbrd ornament among other potted 

 plants in the stove, and I he fourth sort m the 

 borders. 



SIDERITIS, a genus containing plants of 

 the under shuibbv, and shrubby exotic kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Didijnamia 

 Gymnospermia, and ranks in tlie natural order 

 of yirticUlatce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianth, tubular, oblon<r, about !ialf-five- 

 clcft: segments acute, almost equal: the corolla 

 one-petallcd, almost equal : tube cylindrical, 

 throai oblong, rui'.ndish : upper lip erect, bi- 

 fid, narrow : lower lip trifid ; lateral segments 

 sharper, commonly smaller than the upper lip; 

 middle segment roundish crenate : the stamina 

 have four filaments, within the tube of the co- 

 rolla, shorter than the throat, two of which are 

 smaller : anthers roundish, two tw in : the pis.- 



