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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Stamens go ; column divided into filaments at apex. Germen 5-co - 

 locular ; cells verticillate, 3-8-ovulate ; style branches equal in number 

 to the cells, filiform or shortly decurrent-clavate, stigmatiferous at 

 apex {Sidabutilon 1 ). Carpels 3-8, coalescing at base when mature 

 or quite separating, sometimes membranous-dilated, apex rotund, 

 long dependent from central column (by means of a free nerve) 

 (Caj/oitlcs-), upper part rotund divergent-rostrate, 2-valved, interior 

 naked ; seeds 1- co, subreniform often oblique ; superior ascendent ; 

 inferior, horizontal, or oftener descendent. — Herbs, shrubs, or more 

 rarely trees; tomentum usually soft; leaves generally cordate, angular, 

 or lobed, rarely narrow ; flowers usually axillary, without epicalyx 

 (All warm regioni). See p. 91. 



53 ? Wissadula Medik. 4 — Flowers of Abuiilon; ovary cells 5; ovules 

 1-4 ; style branches same in number, capitate stigmatiferous at apex. 

 Fruit (truncate at apex), carpels 5, membranous at maturity ; apex 

 extrorse angular, or rostrate (rostra divergent) by transverse la- 

 mella} or ribs more or less septate within, dehiscing in two valves ; 

 upper part of carpel sometimes aspermous. Seeds 1-4, of which 1, 

 2 in lower part of cells are descendent, and 1, 2 or more rarely 

 in upper part ascendent. — Shrubs, usually tomentose ; leaves cordate, 

 entire or dentate ; flowers 5 axillary or in racemes at summit of 

 branches (rarely subspikes), sometimes interrupted, simple or rami- 

 fied, ecalyculate; peduncles 1-cc -flowered" (7rojj. America, Asia and 

 Africa 1 ). 



1 Species including a few S. American, es- 

 pecially Sida vitifolia Cav., which is A. viti- 

 folium Lindl. [Bot. Reg. (1844), t. 57.] 



2 Endl., Gen. n. 5293 b (sect. Basiardia). — 

 Gai/opsis A. Gray, Gen. III., ii. 107, t. 126. — 

 Beloere Shutt., in PI. Rueg. exs. 



3 Spec, ad 70. H. 13. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, 

 v. 256, t. 473.— DC, Prodr., i. 467 (Sida).— 

 A. S. II., PI. Us. Bras., t. 51; Fl. Bras. Mer., 

 i. t. 39 (Bastardia), 196, t. 40-42.— Wight, 

 Icon., t. 12, 68. — Gitillem. & Peer., Fl. Sen. 

 Tent, i. 14.— C. Gay, Fl. CHI., i. 330.— Hart. 

 & SOSTD., Fl. Cap., i. 168.— Griseb., Jt 7 . Brit. 

 W.-Ind., 77.— A. Gray, Man., ed. 5, 67. — 

 Tr. & I'L., in Ann. Sc. Nat., scr. 4, xvii. 182. 

 — Bentil., Fl. Austral, i. 191.— 'Mast., in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 183.— Bot. 3Iag.,t. 

 2759, 2821, 3150, 3810, 3892, 4134, 4170, 4227, 



4360, 4463 (Sida).— Walp., Rep., i. 322; ii. 

 793 ; v. 95 ; Ann., i. 104; ii. 157; iv. 313; vii. 

 392. 



4 Malv., 25. — Presl, Reliq. Hank., ii. 117, 

 t. 69.— Endl., Gen., n. 5295. — Payek, These 

 Malvac., 5, 6, 22.— 13. H., Gen., 204, n. 

 20. 



5 Rather small, yellow. 



6 A genus scarcely distinct from the Ahutilons 

 with transverse carpels ; much better as a sec- 

 tion of them. 



7 Spec, ad 5. Cay., Diss., i. t. 5, fig. 1, 2. — 

 LiifiR., Slirp., t. 58 (Sida). — Titecz., in Bull. 

 Mosc. (1858), i. 102.— Griseb., Fl. Brit. W.- 

 Ind., 77 (Sidce sect. Wissida). — Thw., Enum. 

 PI. Zeyl., 27.— Tr. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., 

 ser. 4, xvii. 186. — Walp., Rep., i. 327 ; Ann., 

 vii. 395. 



