148 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Stamens  ; column divided into filaments at apex. Germen 5-« - 
locular ; cells verticillate, 3-8-ovulate ; style branches equal in number 
to the cells, filiform or shortly decurrent-clavate, stigmatiferous at 
apex (Sidabutilon'). 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) 
(Gayoides’), upper part rotund divergent-rostrate, 2-valved, interior 
naked ; seeds 1—m, 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 
(AU warm regions’). See p. 91. 
53? Wissadula Mupix.‘'—Flowers of Adutilon; 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- 
melle 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 0 
in upper part ascendent.—Shrubs, usually tomentose ; leaves cordate, 
entire or dentate; flowers’ axillary or in racemes at summit of 
branches (rarely subspikes), sometimes interrupted, simple or rami- 
fied, ecalyculate; peduncles 1-2 -flowered® (Zrop. America, Asia and 
Africa’). 
1 Species including a few S. American, es- 4860, 4463 (Sida)—Watp., Rep., i. 322; ii. 
pecially Sida vitifolia Cay., which is A, viti- 
folium Linpu. [ Bot. Reg. (1844), t. 57.] 
? Enpx., Gen. n. 5293 b (sect. Bastardia),— 
Gayopsis A. Gray, Gen. Iil., ii. 167, t, 126.— 
Beloere SHUTT., in Pl. Rueg. exs. 
3 Spee, ad 70, H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., 
v. 256, t. 473.—DC., Prodr., i. 467 (Sida).— 
A.S. H., Pl, Us. Bras., t. 51; Fl. Bras. Mer., 
i. t. 39 (Bastardia), 196, t. 40-42.—WieHt, 
Icon,, t. 12, 68.—Guittem. & PeErRR., Fl. Sen. 
Tent., i. 14.—C. Gay, Fl. Chil., i. 330.—HaARY, 
& Sonv., Fl. Cap., i. 168.—Grises., À, Brit. 
W.-Ind., 77.—A. Gray, Man., ed. 5, 67.— 
Tr. & Px., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 4, xvii, 182. 
—BENTH., Fl. Austral. i. 191.—Mast., in 
Oliv. Fl, Trop. Afr,, i, 183.— Bot. Mag., t. 
2759, 2821, 3150, 3840, 3892, 4134, 4170, 4227, 
793 ; v. 95; Ann., i. 104; ii. 157; iv. 313; vii. 
392. 
4 Malv., 25.—Prest, Relig. Henk., ii. 117, 
t. 69.—Enpu., Gen., n. 5295.— Payer, Thèse 
Malvac., 5, 6, 22.—B, H., Gen, 204, n. 
20. 
5 Rather small, yellow. 
5 A genus scarcely distinct from the Abutilons 
with transverse carpels; much better as a sec- 
tion of them. 
7 Spec. ad 5. Cav., Diss., i. t. 5, fig. 1, 2.— 
Lnér., Slirp., t. 58 (Sida).—Turcz., in Bull. 
Mose. (1858), i. 102.—Gnisrs., Fl, Brit. W.- 
Ind., 77 (Side sect. Wissida).—Tuw., Enum. 
Pl, Zeyl., 27.—Tr. & Pt, in Ann. Se, Nat., 
sér. 4, xvii. 186.—Watp., Rep., i, 327; Ann., 
vii, 395, 
