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Stamina plurima; ji/r„ie)ifi-\ liberie v. basi in tubum apice pcntadclphum roalitis; mit/n-ris 2-lobis, 1-locu- 
laribus. Ovarium 1-5-locularc ; orulis solitariis; */////* 1-5, b -i coal!!;-. sii^ni:iiihiis obi:. 
dulosis. Capsula 1-3-cocca; coeds irregulanter dehiscent ilms, 1-spermis. Seven pemb; 
curvatus. — Frutices r. arbusculce steUaUhpubet . cortiee Av/,.-r/ ,• foliis 
partis — Asterotrichum, Klotzsch. Blepharanthcmum, Endl. Siiliv .v/;., //tw£. etc. 
A small genus, confined to New Zealand, South Australia, and Tasmania, very nearly allied to Sida, but dif- 
fering in the form of the carpels and stigmata, as also in the anther? king incompletely two-celled, on which latter 
account it is placed in another Natural Order; there is indeed an imperfect dissepiment ku.n 
anther in several species, which is torn at a considerable period before the dehiscence of the lobes.— Shrubs with 
tough bark and stellate pubescence, sometimes dioecious. Flowen in axillary racemes, nuvly solitary, white. Ca ft 
five-lobed. Corolla membranous, very small in the female flowers of some species. Petals five, oblique, united al 
the base into a tube, that carries the staminal column. Stamens numerous; filaments muled below, free above, or 
pentadelphous. Ovary of one to five carpels ; styles united below, five ahove. with a blunt and dilated -ivM.o 
Capsule of as many one-deeded cocci, generally bursting irn _ 
from Tvkayios, oblique ; in allusion to the unequal-sided petals.) 
1. Plagianthus ptdchellus (A. Gray, i 
steTJatim pubescentibus glabratisve, i>>iiis longe petiolatu angnati rande buorna 
integris v. obscure trilobis grosse crenatis, floribi 
deciduis.— Sida pulchella, Bonpl. in DC. Prodr. 
Yar. j3; tomentosa, calyce mollitcr stellato-pubesccnte, stylis clongatis.— Sida Tasmaniea, ///. in //<«./-. 
Journ. Bot. ii. 412. (6mm, 053.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, in rich alluvial soil. Var. /3. Campbell To* 
Oct. Nov.) (•...) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. Var. /9. Macquarrie River, Cunningham. 
A shrub 5-9 feet high, with slender stems and branches, covered with dark-coloured bark, the foliage, branches, 
and inflorescence more or less covered with stellate pubescence, sometimes almost glabrous, at others very woolly or 
even white with soft down. — Leaves 1-3 inches long, on petioles of equal length, narrow ovate-cordate, with deeply 
two-lobed cordate bases, strongly crenate margins, and slender points, often quite glabrous above, and nearly so 
beneath ; rarely obscurely three-lobed, sometimes (in var. 0) softly downy on both sides. Male flow 
axillary racemes, which are shorter than the leaves, on short pedicels; females smaller, crowded in short irregular 
spikes, or densely aggregated into masses. Calyx broadly campanulate, five-lobed, varying from almost glabrous 
to very densely woolly. Petals five, narrow oblong, or obovate-oblong, rounded at the tip, white. 2-3 hn. ■ 
long. Staminal tube erect, four- to six-lobed at the top. Anthers glabrous or set.- 
flowers of var. /?. Ovaries five, villous, one-ovuled. 8tiff*uu Hunt, glandular down the 
inner face. Fruit a inch in diameter, four- or !rom a central 
persistent column, densely pubescent, one-seeded, dehiscing along the dorsum. Seed with a brown, smooth, 
i testa. — I was for some time inclined to n tinct species, but after 
of many specimens, I have been obliged to reduce it. Mr. Gunn Bends it at one an 
species and at another as a variety of P.pulcbP 
constant character; and the styles, whi h ;,;,1C ^ Wltl » a .- rf '- "M in dif- 
ferent individuals, that I am unable to attach specific value to their variations. 
2. Plagianthus sidoides (Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3396) ; molliter stellatim tomentosus, foliis linean 
oblongis breve petiolatis grosse obtuse serratis superne reticulars subtus cano-tomentosis, racemis masculi 
suberectis brevibus, fcemineis brevioribus, carpeliis 2 persiatentibtts. — Hook. Journ. But. ii. 1G1, Camp 
