86 THALAMIFLOHJE. 



SufFruticose, annual, erect, 2-3 feet in height: branches few, 

 simple, terete, pilose with long hairs intermixed with a glandu- 

 loso-capitate pubescence. Leaves cordate, acuminate, crenated, 

 nerved, veined, green and velvety with stellated hairs above, 

 hoary and stellato-tomentose beneath : petiole terete, elongated, 

 pilose like the branches. Stipules * an inch in length, subulate, 

 hairy, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, rather longer 

 than the petioles, articulated below the flower, hairy like the 

 branches. Flowers large, showy, of a dirty crimson colour, 

 opening about 9 o'clock in the morning, and closing about 4 

 o'clock in the afternoon. Calyx 5-fid below the middle : divi- 

 sions acuminate, nerved. Petals twice the length of the calyx, 

 veined, minutely ciliated. Stamens numerous. Styles 15, 

 spreading, tinged with purple, length of the stamens : stigmata 

 capitate. Carpels 15, inflated, shortly beaked at the outer 

 angle, densely hirsute with greenish yellow hairs, 9-seeded. 



This is a rather beautiful species. It was discovered by 

 Humboldt and his companions in shady situations by the banks 

 of the Amazon. 



16. * Sida Americana. American Broom-weed. 



Leaves cordate oblong undivided tomentose, pe- 

 duncles * shorter than the leaf, carpels 12 tomentose, 

 acuminate length of the calyx. 



Willd. Sp. III. 750. De Cand. Prod. 470. 



HAB. Jamaica. 



FL. ? 



Leaves twice as long as they are broad, very tomentose, ser- 

 rated, double the length of the petioles. Calyx tomentose. 

 Carpels 12, size of those of S. ABUTILON, terminating, at the 

 outer angle, in a lanceolate point, as long as the carpel itself. 



17. Sida abutiloides. Savannah Broom-weed. 



Leaves cordate acuminate bluntly toothed villous 

 above, hoary viscid and tomentose beneath, peduncles 

 axillary solitary scarcely longer than the petiole, car- 

 pels 10 acuminate length of the calyx 3-seeded. 



Lavatera Americana, Stvartz, Obs. 263. Sida abutiloides, 

 De Cand. Prod. I. 470. 



HAB. Common in dry Savannahs and thickets on the south 

 side of the Island. 



FL. January. 



Suffruticose, erect, about 3 feet high : branches compressed 

 at their extremities, subflexuose, hispido-tomentose, with stel- 

 lated hairs. Leaves ovate, cordate, acuminate, dentate, nerved, 



