82 THALAMI FLORAE. 



the extremities. Leaves nerved, velutino-puberulous above, 

 hoary and tomentose beneath with stellated hairs. Stipules 

 subulate. Flowers of a tawny-yellow colour. Calyx 5-angular, 

 tomentose. Petals rounded at the apex, emarginate, undulated. 

 Styles 10, rarely 12, longer than the stamens, reBected : stig- 

 mata capitate. Carpels 10, rarely 12, shortly bi-rostrate: seeds 

 compressed, 3-gonal, black, glabrous. 



A common weed in dry lowland pastures, remarkable for its 

 numerous orange coloured flowers, and its hoary woolly branches 

 and leaves. 



9. Sida urens. Stinging Broom-weed. 

 Leaves ovato-cordate acuminate serrato-dentate 

 with blunt teeth hispid above hirsute beneath, flowers 

 axillary and terminal crowded, carpels 5 awnless, stem 

 and petioles hirsute with long stiff hairs. 



Sida urticata, Browne, 280. S. urens, Swartz, Obs. 261 

 Cav.diss. I. 15. t. 2. f. 7. 



HAB. Common in fences and thickets. 



FL. Autumn. 



Suffruticose : branches long, erect or subprocumbent, terete 

 purpurascent on the side exposed to the sun, hirsute with long 

 straight hairs, mixed with a minute stellated pubescence. Leaves 

 ovate, cordate, acuminate with the apex blunt, bluntly serrato- 

 dentate, hisped above, and hirsute beneath with stellated hairs, 

 nerved : petiole about an inch in length. Stipules subulate. 

 Peduncle one fourth of an inch in length, accompanied by 1-2 

 short branchlets, each bearing about 5 flowers crowded together, 

 and late in being developed. Calyx with the divisions acute 

 and ciliated. Petals purpurascent at the claw, with the limb 

 yellow, minutely ciliated. Column of the stamens minutely 

 stellato-puberulous. Ovary 5-lobed : styles 5, spreading : stig- 

 mata capitate, crimson. Carpels 5, awnless, stellato-pubescent 

 towards the apex : seeds roundish, compressed, wrinkled, black. 



10. * Sida dumosa. Glabrous-leaved Broom-weed. 



Leaves cordate ovate acuminate serrated glabrous 

 on both sides, peduncles many-flowered, carpels 5-6 

 subrotund scabrous with a very minute stellated 

 pubescence. De Cand. 



Swartz, FL Ind. Occ. 1209. 

 HAB. Thickets. 



FL. ? 



Stem erect, smooth. Leaves serrulated, nervose, glabrous 

 on both sides, 2 inches in length: petioles length of the leaves, 



