g4 THALAMIFLORJE. 



HAB. Common. 



FL. Autumn. 



Suffruticose, erect, 3-4 feet high, much branched, terete, 

 viscid to the touch, and somewhat villous with capitate hairs. 

 Leaves 4-6 inches long, pubescent above, hoary and villous 

 with stellated hairs beneath, 3-nerved, besides a marginal pair, 

 veined: petioleof thesame length as theleaf, obscurely channelled, 

 slightly villous with a capitato-glandulose pubescence. Stipules 

 small, setaceous, ciliated. Peduncles axillary and terminal, 

 panicled and many-flowered ; or there is in the axil of the leaf 

 a one-flowered peduncle about an inch in length and jointed 

 above the middle, accompanied by a short branchlet, bearing 

 about 5 pedicelfed flowers. Flowers yellow. Calyx prominently 

 nerved, pubescent with capitato-glandulose hairs, ciliated ; 

 segments acuminate. Petals obcordate, ciliated with minute 

 capitate hairs, but otherwise glabrous. Stamens about 16. 

 Styles 5, blood-coloured, with capitate stigmata. Carpels 5, 

 rostrate; the beaks short, subulate, hispid. Seeds solitary, ovoid, 

 with a carunculated apicula. 



A very common plant. The leaves are occasionally variegated 

 with yellow. 



SECT. 2. Carpels one- or many-seeded, inflated. 



13. Sida viscosa. Viscid Broom-weed. 

 Leaves ovato-cordate acuminate dentate viscoso- 

 tomentose, peduncles axillary shorter than the petiole, 

 carpels 5 bi-cuspidate. 



Althaea populi folio villoso, Sloane, I. 222. t. 139. f. 4. 

 Sida viscosa seu villosa, Browne, 280. S. Viscosa, Swartz, 

 Obs. 239. 



HAB. Savannahs. Common in Salt- Ponds. 



FL. November. 



iSuffruticose, erect, 2-4 feet in height : branches suberect, 

 terete, stellato-tomentose with the longer hairs tipt with a viscid 

 transparent globule. Leaves attenuate-acuminate, viscid, stel- 

 lato-villous. Stipules subulate. Peduncles axillary, subsoli- 

 tary, short, scarcely half an inch in length, villous. Flowers 

 yellow. Calyx externally stellato- villous and viscid with pel- 

 lucid shining globules ; segments lanceolate, attenuato-mucro- 

 nate. Petals subovato-rotund, repand at their extremity, glab- 

 rous. Stamens numerous. Styles 5, erect, rather longer than 

 the stamens : stigmata obtuse. Carpels 5, globose, compressed, 

 bi-rostrate, stellato-villous, subinflated, 1 -seeded : seed globose, 

 slightly compressed. 



This is the plant described and figured by Sloane. According 

 to him the carpels are 6 ; whereas Swartz gives 7 as their 

 number. 



