326 MALVACEAE. Sida. 



Texas and adjacent Louisiana, and south to the Rio Grande ; first coll. hy Berlundlfr, then 

 bv Jjrummond, Lindheimer, &c. (Adj. Mex.) 



S- longipes, Gray. Somewhat scabro-puberulent, not cinereous : steins about a foot hi^h 

 from a ligneous root, strict : leaves elongated-linear or the lower lanceolate, barely serrulate 

 or crenulate, much surpassed by the (3 to 5 inclies long) erect peduncles ; these articulated 

 toward the summit : petals orange-color, half inch long: carpels glabrous, muticous. — 1*1. 

 Wright, i. 19, ii. 21. — W. Texas, from Live-Oak Creek to the Pecos, Wright, Woodhouse, 

 Haiard\ 



* * * Flowers pedunculate and scattered in the axils or partly paniculate : calyx not 

 angled, globular in the bud. 



S. filipes, Gray. Herbaceous from perennial root, 2 or 3 feet high, paniculately branched, 

 ratiier .>ilender, fulvous-canescent witii close stellular pubescence : leaves very short-petioled, 

 lanceolate or the lower oblong, serrate, hardly acute, subcordate or truncate at base, inch or 

 two long : peduncles filiform, longer than the leaves, the small flower nodding in and after 

 anthesis : calyx-lobes (hardly over a line long) ovate, obtuse: petals deep violet-purple, 2 

 lines long : carpels about 7, obtusely apiculate at the at length dehiscent apex, glabrate, 

 the sides favose-rugose. — PI. Lindh. pt. 2, 164, & PI. Wright, i. 19. — Rocky ravines from 

 near Austin, Texas, to the Rio Grande, Wright, Schott. (Adj. Mex., Berlandier, Edwards, 

 Palmer, &c.) 



13. WISSADULA, Medic. (An E. Indian name.) — Habit of Ahutilon, 

 and with paniculate or subspicate yellow flowers. — Malv. 24; Presl, Rel. 

 Haenk. ii. 117, t. 69; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 204. — Genus of a few tropical 

 species. [Revised by B. L. Robinson.] 



"W^.* rostrata. Planch.-^ Canescent with soft and close minute pubescence, no bristly 

 hairs : leaves all cordate with deep narrow sinus, abruptly acuminate, entire, loug-petioled ; 

 upper face glabrous or glabrate : flowers loosely paniculate, slender-pedicelled : petals 2 

 lines long : carpels mucrouate ; seeds 3 or 4, upper puberulent, lower one hairy. — [" Planch, 

 in"] Hook. Niger Fl. 229. W. mucromdata, Gray in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 39. Sida 

 kernandioides, L'Her. Stirp. t. 58. Wissadula periploci/olia, var. hernandioides, Griseb. Cat. 

 Cub. 25. (Must be different from the Indian W. Zei/lanica, Medic, which seems to be in- 

 troduced into America.) Abutilon Neal/eiji, Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. i. 32, ii. 41. — 

 S. Texas, on the Rio Grande, Schott. (Adj. Mex., Berlandier, &c., W. Ind., S. Am., Afr.) 



"W^.* holosericea, Garcke.^ Robust, branching, 3 to 6 feet high, densely velvety-tomentose 

 tliroughout, soft and white but in age usually tawny and somewhat roughish, heavy-scented : 

 leaves broadly cordate, acute or acuminate, from almost entire to dentate, sometimes 

 obscurely 3-lobed (the smaller 2 and larger 8 to 10 inches long) : flowers short-peduiicled, 

 solitary in lower axils, and later ones corymbose-paniculate at summit: petals orange- 

 yellow, half to three fourths inch long : carpels tomentose, not exceeding the siiort and 

 broad calyx; seeds glabrous. — Zeitschr. f. Naturw. Ixiii. 124. ? Abutilon erosum, Schlecht. 

 Linnaea, xi. 367, Jide E. G. Baker, Jonr. Bot. xxxi. 74. A. holosericeum, Scheele, Linna;a, 

 xxi. 471 ; Gray, PI. Lindh. pt. 2, 162, & PI. Wright i. 20. A. velntinum. Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 

 67, t. 125. — Rocky soil, W. Texas, Wright, Lindheimer, &c. (Adj. Mex., first coll. by 

 Berlandier.) 



14. ABtTTILON, Tourn. (Probably of Arabic origin, being a name used 

 by Avicenna, for some plant, taken by commentators to be Indian Mallow.) — 

 Herbs or shrubs, of warm countries, mostly with soft stellular pubescence or 



1 Also southeastward as far as Duval Co., Texas, Nealley, fide Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb, 

 i. 32. 



2 This name is substituted for the W. murronulntn of Gray, on grounds of obvious priority, the 

 identity of the species being evident both from specimens and from sj-nonymy cited with their orij^i- 

 nal descriptions. 



3 This species has been transferred from Abutilon to Wissadula, the structure of the fruit being, as 

 Garcke has pointed out, clearly of the latter genus. 



