78 THALAMIFLOU/E. 



Suffruticose, with branches spreading, terete, hirsute with 

 stellated hairs. Leaves distichal, ovate, obtuse, serrated, with 

 the teeth subaristate, nerved, tomentose with stellated hairs, 

 ciliated, hoary beneath : petiole one-fourth of an inch in length, 

 terete, tomentose. Stipules setaceous, length of the petiole. 

 Petiole scarcely half the length of the petiole, accompanied by 

 a short flowering branchlet. Bracteas setaceous. Calyx 5-ago- 

 nal, nerved, externally stellato-tomentose ; divisions acuminate. 

 Petals obliquely cordate, white, or of a pale buff colour. Ovary 

 5-agonal : styles 5, reflex : stigmata capitate. Carpels 5, bi- 

 rostrate. 



This plant has some resemblance to the following species ; 

 but may readily be distinguished by its growing in low warm 

 situations, by being tomentose, by the flowers being nearly 

 white, and by the carpels being only 5 in number. 



2. Sida trivialis. Way-side Broom-weed. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate acute dentato-serrated mi- 

 nutely stellato-puberulous, peduncles axillary solitary 

 1 -flowered scarcely longer than the petiole, carpels 

 8-10 shortly bi-cuspidate. 



Malva erecta minor carpinii folio, flore luteo, seminibus sin- 

 gulis simplici aculeo-longiori donatis, Sloane, I. 218. Sida 

 Balbisiana, Bertero, De Cand. Prod. I. 460. 



HAB. Common by the roadsides and in ditches. 



FL. Autumn. 



Suffruticose, about a foot in height : branches alternate, dis- 

 tichal, terete, stellato-pubescent. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, 

 acute, rounded and entire at the base, the rest of the margin 

 dentato-serrated, subglabrous above, minutely stellato-puberu- 

 lous beneath, nerved : petiole short. Stipules nearly twice the 

 length of the leaf, lanceolate, 3-nerved, ciliated. Peduncles the 

 third of an inch in length, scarcely longer than the petiole, axil- 

 lary, solitary, 1 -flowered. Flowers orange-yellow, size of a 

 shilling. Calycine segments ciliated. Petals obliquely obcor- 

 date. Column of the filaments stellato-puberulous. Ovary 

 spherical, truncated : styles 10 : stigmata obtuse. Carpels us- 

 ually 10, bicuspidate at the inner and upper angle : seed soli- 

 tary. 



Notwithstanding some unimportant points of difference, this 

 plant is evidently the same with that found by Bertero at Porto- 

 Ricco, and to which he gave the name of S. BALBISIANA. The 

 leaves vary in being more or less elongated, and in being either 

 rounded or approaching to acute at the base. It is very com- 

 mon in the Port-Royal mountains. The branches of this, as 

 well as of some of the other species, are employed, tied toge- 

 ther in a bundle, as a broom by the Negroes. The leaves also 



