MALVACEAE. 7y 



and tender shoots, arc made use of as substitutes for soap. 

 Rubbed up with water, they form a lather, which may be 

 employed in shaving, when the skin is in an irritable state, not 

 admitting of the use of soap. 



3. * Sida ciliaris. Procumbent Broom-weed. 



Leaves oblongo-elliptic retuse serrato-dentate to- 

 wards the apex, peduncles axillary subterminal soli- 

 tary very short, stipules of the same length or longer 

 than the petiole ciliated, carpels 7 muricated shortly 

 bi rostrate. 



Malva minor supina, flore coccineo, seminibus asperis, 

 Sloane, 1. 217. t. 137. f. 2. Malva minima supina, Browne, 

 282 Sida ciliaris, Cav. diss. I. t. 3. f. 9. Swartz, Obs. 257. 

 De Cand. Prod. I. 461. 



II AB. Common in dry waste places, and pastures. 



FL. July December, after rains. 



Suffruticose, procumbent at the base, terete, hirsute with ap- 

 pressed stellated hairs. Leaves at the ends of the branchlets, 

 elliptic, approaching to oblong, retuse, serrato-dentate and cili- 

 ated towards the apex, glabrous above, stellato-hispid beneath, 

 scarcely more than half an inch in length : petiole half the 

 length of the leaf. Stipules setaceous, ciliated, rather longer 

 than the petiole. Flowers small, red, shortly peduncled, axil- 

 lary, solitary. Calyx 5-partite : segments ciliated. Petals en- 

 tire. Anthers 10. Style 7-partite, longer than the stamens. 

 Carpels 7, muricated, shortly birostrate at the apex. 



* * Peduncles elongated and distinctly jointed, leaves 

 oblong. 



4. Sida minor. Lesser Broom-weed. 

 Leaves oblong and rounded at the base, sometimes 

 ovate and subcordate, serrated subglabrous above stel- 

 lato-puberulous beneath, peduncles axillary solitary 1- 

 flowered rather longer than the petiole jointed, car- 

 pels 5 shortly bicuspidate. 



HAB. Dry situations, Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. July November. 



Snffruticose, about 8 inches in height : branches compressed, 

 very minutely stellato-puberulous. Leaves, in old plants, ovate 

 and subcordate, in young ones, oblong and rounded at the base, 

 crenato-serrated, and incano-puberulous above, incano-puberu- 

 lous with stellated hairs beneath. Stipules half the length of 

 the petiole, setaceous, ciliated. Peduncle jointed above the 



