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14. Sida periplocifolia? Periploca-leaved Broom- 



weed. 



Leaves cordate lanceolato-ovate tapering gradually 

 towards the apex subentire glabrous above hoary and 

 stellato-villous beneath, panicle terminal lax with its 

 divisions filiform, carpels ,5 subinflated one-seeded. 



Alcea populifolia, folio incano integro, Sloane, I. 222. t. 139- 

 f. 3. Sida erecta, foliis integris subtus incanis, Browne,280. 

 Sida periplocifolia, Swartz, Obs. 260. Richard, Act. Soc. Hist. 

 N. Par. p. III.? 



Common in the Lowlands. 



5*1.1. After the Autumnal rains. 



Suffrutescent, erect, 3-4 feet in height : branches few, sub- 

 simple, coloured, stellato-villous. Leaves attenuated at the 

 apex which is obtuse, deep green and glabrous above, hoary 

 and stellato-villous beneath, nerved. Panicle terminal, 1-2 feet 

 in length, loose : common peduncle slender, terete, stellato- 

 pubescent ; its divisions filiform, spreading, few-flowered : pe- 

 dicels an inch and a half in length, jointed above the middle, 

 delicately filiform, puberulous with very minute capitate hairs, 

 in general two together, bearing a rather small yellow flower. 

 Calyx externally purple and most minutely puberulous : divi- 

 sions acute. Petals obovato-cuneiform spreading. Filaments 

 scarcely united into a column, subpolyadelphous. Styles 5, 

 long, with capitate stigmata. Carpels 5, subinflated, triquet- 

 rous, with the apex beaked : seeds solitary, angulose, with the 

 angles puberulous. 



This species is not rare ; and is remarkable for the stamens 

 being, as it were, broken up, and polyadelphous, the leaves en- 

 tire or nearly so, the stem slender, and the divisions of the 

 panicle capillary. This is decidedly the plant of Sloane. I 

 have never, however, observed more than one seed in each 

 carpel. A plant bearing the same specific designation, and a 

 native of Ceylon, has the carpels 3-seeded. 



15. Sida peduncularis. Purple-flowered Broom-weed. 



Leaves cordate acuminate crenate green and vel- 

 vety above hoary and tomentose beneath, peduncles 

 axillary solitary longer than petioles, carpels 15 in- 

 flated, nine-seeded, seeds small puberulous. 



Abutilon pedunculare, H. B. <3r Kutith, nov. gen. Amcr. V. 



273 Sida peduncularis, De Cand. Prod. I. 469. 



HAB. Common in the neighbourhood of Half-way Tree. 

 Kl,. After the May and Autumnal rains. 



