

MALVACE.I:. 77 



pressed plane and stellariform above, many-celled ; 

 cells 1 -seeded. 



Name, from a, privative, and NODUS a joint, the peduncles not 

 being jointed as in SIDA. 



1. Anoda hastata. Hastate-leaved Anoda. 



Lower leaves cordate acuminate 5-angled subden- 

 tate obtuse, upper ones hastate acuminate subdentate 

 at the base, peduncles axillary solitary length of the 

 leaves. 



Cav.diss. I. 38. t. 11. f. 2. Sida hastata, Willd. Sp. Ill- 

 763. 



HAB. Neighbourhood of Bath, St Thomas in the East, and 

 of the Botanic Garden, St Andrew's. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



The leaves vary in shape. The flowers are usually blue, ap- 

 proaching to purple, rarely white. From the situation in which 

 it grows, it is most probable an introduced plant. It is a 

 native of Mexico, and of the neighbourhood of Lima. 



IX. SIDA. Broom-weed. 



Calyx naked, 5-fid, generally angulated. Style 

 multifid at its apex. Carpels capsular, 5-30, whorled 

 round an axis, more or less united among themselves, 

 1 -celled, one- or many-seeded, awned or awnless at 

 the apex. 



Name, applied by Theophrastus to a Malvaceous plant, ac- 

 cording to some; or to the common Water-lily, according to 

 Adanson. 



SECT. 1. Carpels 5-12, one-seeded, not inflated. 



* Peduncles shorter than the petioles, or of nearly 

 the same length, leaves ovate or oblong. 



1. Sida Jamaicensis. Common Broom-weed. 

 Leaves ovate serrated obtuse tomentose, peduncles 

 axillary solitary 1-flowered very short, carpels 5 two- 

 horned. 



Sida humilior foliis ovatis serratis distiche sitis, Browne, 

 280. S. Jamaicensis, Cav.diss. I. I'/, t. 2. f. 5. Sivartz, Obs. 

 258. 



HAB. Common on dry hot plains. 



FL. After rains. 



