MALVACEAE. 265 . 



Carpels 15-30, thin, merely acute. 1. A. hirtum. 



Carpels 510, chartaceous to coriaceous, subulate-beaked. 

 Carpels attenuate-beaked, flowers 22.5 cm. broad. 



Leaves not strongly reticulate-veined beneath ; carpels 1 



cm. long. 2. A. permolle. 



Leaves distinctly reticulate-veined beneath ; carpels 1.5 



cm. long. 3. A. abutiloides. 



Carpels abruptly minutely beaked. 



Carpels puberulent. 4. A. trisulcatum. 



Carpels villous. 5. A. pauciflorum. 



1. Abutilon hirtum (Lam.) Sweet, Hort. Brit. 1: 53. 1827. 



Sida hirta Lam. Encycl. 1: 7. 1783. 



Abutilon indicum hirtum Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 78. 1859. 



Perennial, velvety-caneseent and villous-viscid, branched, 1-5 dm. high. 

 Leaves ovate or nearly orbicular, 15 cm. long or less, cordate at the base, irreg- 

 ularly crenate, the petioles as long as the blades or shorter; peduncles mostly 

 shorter than the petioles, sometimes as long; calyx somewhat enlarged in fruit, 

 its ovate lobes acute or acuminate; petals yellow, commonly with a purple base, 

 1.5-2 cm. long; carpels 15-30, very thin, a little longer than the calyx, 8-10 

 mm. long, mucronulate. 



Waste lands, Harbor Island ; New Providence ( ?) : Florida ; Cuba to St. 

 Thomas and Barbadoes ; Jamaica ; Old World tropics. Recorded by Dolley as 

 Abutilon indicum G. Don. HAIRY ABUTILON. 



2. Abutilon permolle (Willd.) Sweet, Hort. Brit. 1: 53. 1827. 



Sida permollis Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 723. 1809. 



Perennial, velvety, 0.6-1.5 m. high, branched, the branches slender. Leaves 

 ovate, 2.5-10 cm. long, acuminate at the apex, rather deeply cordate at the 

 base, crenulate, white-tomentulose beneath, the petioles as long as the blades or 

 shorter; calyx scarcely enlarged in fruit, its ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate lobes longer than the tube; petals yellow, obovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, carpels 

 7-10, slender-beaked, longer than the calyx, nearly 1 cm. long. 



Waste places and scrub-lands, Little Harbor Cay, New Providence, Eleuthera, 

 Little San Salvador, the Exumas to Long Island, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, 

 Inagua, East Caicos and Anguilla Isles : Florida ; Cuba ; Jamaica. VELVETY 

 ABUTILON. 



3. Abutilon abutiloldes (Jacq.) Garcke, Bot. Jahrb. 15: 485. 1893. 



Sida abutiloides Jacq. Obs. 1: 17. 1764. 



Abutilon lignosum G. Don, Gen. Hist. 1: 501. 1831. 



A shrub, up to 1.5 m. high, the twigs densely stellate-tomentose. Leaves 

 broadly ovate, 2-8 cm. long, serrate nearly all around, stellate-tomentulose on 

 both sides, reticulate-veined beneath, acuminate at the apex, cordate at the base, 

 the petioles somewhat shorter than the blades; peduncles longer than the 

 petioles; calyx little enlarged in fruit, its broadly ovate acuminate tomentu- 

 lose lobes sharply acuminate; petals bright yellow, about 1 cm. long; carpels 

 7-10, slender-beaked, about- 1.5 cm. long. 



Waste places, Harbor Island, Long Island : Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Jamaica ; Mex- 

 ico. BUSHY ABUTILON. 



4. Abutilon trisulcatum (Jacq.) Britton & Millspaugh. 



Sida trisulcata Jacq. Enum. 26. 1760. 



Abutilon triquetrum Presl, Eeliq. Haenk. 2: 115. 1835. 



A shrub, 11.6 m. high, with slender ascending densely tomentulose 

 branches. Leaves ovate, slender-petioled, 4-12 cm. long, crenate or crenulate, 

 finely velvety on both sides, the upper ones much smaller than the lower; 



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