MAI.VACEJE. 83 



pubescent. Panicle terminal. Flowers numerous, crowded, 

 shortly pedicelled, of moderate size, yellow. Calyx 5-agonal 

 at the base, pubescent. Styles 5-6. Carpels 1 -seeded. 

 Swartz. 



1 1 . Sida capillaris. Capillary panicled Broom-weed. 

 Leaves ovate acuminate, rarely subcordate, more 

 usually rounded at the base dentato-serrate hoary 

 stellato-pilose above stellato-tomentose beneath, stipules 

 setaceous, peduncles capillary panicled or simple, 

 carpels 5 shortly bi-rostrate. 



Sida foliis cordato-acuminatis, pedunculis longis tenuissimis 

 capillaribus alaribus, inferioribus simplicibus, superioribus 

 ramosis, Browne, 280. S. paniculata, Swartz, Obs. 259. 

 Cav. diss. I. 16. t. 12. f. 5. S. atro sanguinea, Jacq. Ic. rar. I, 

 t. 136 S. capillaris, Cav. diss, I. 10. t. 1. f. 7. 



HAB. Common, in dry gravelly situations. 



FL. August November. 



Suffruticose erect about 3 feet high : branches straight, 

 slightly compressed towards their extremities, stellato-hirsute 

 approaching to tomentose. Leaves attenuate-acuminate, un- 

 equally serrato-dentate, nerved, about 2 inches long, and nearly 

 1 broad : petioles short, tomentose. Stipules longer than the 

 petiole, setaceous. Panicles axillary and subterminal: divisions 

 finely capillary : pedicels an inch and a half in length, glabrous, 

 jointed about 3 lines from the flower, coloured, minutely puberu- 

 lous, incrassated below the calyx. Flowers small, of a crimson 

 colour. Calyx externally puberulous. Petals spreading, oblong, 

 repand, glabrous. Stamens 15 : column crimson, minutely 

 stellato-puberulous : anthers yellow. Styles 5, longer than the 

 filaments, spreading : stigmata minutely papillose. Carpels 5, 

 minutely stellato-puberulous. 



In the specimens I have met with, it is only the leaves 

 at the bottom of the stem that are subcordate. I have adopted 

 the specific designation of Cavanilles, considering it more dis- 

 tinctive This plant is remarkable for its delicate hair-like 

 peduncles, and its small crimson flowers. I have met with 

 specimens, in which the peduncles were 2-3 together, simple, 

 and axillary. 



12. Sida nervosa. Clammy Broom-weed. 

 Leaves cordate acuminate dentate villous with 

 stellated hairs, stem and branches villous with a viscid 

 capitato-glandulose pubescence, peduncles panicled, 

 calyces nervose, carpels 5 bi-rostrate. 



Herlero, De Cand. Prod. I. 465. 



