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MALVACEAE. 
Sida urens L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,963. Between Guanai and Tipuani, 
Apr.—June, 1892 (1446) — Rusby’s 1454 and 1454a. 
S1pA BAKERIANA sp. n. 
Erect, stout, much branched, the branches elongated, inéight, 
nearly horizontal, pilose, the hairs mostly yellowish ; stem terete, 
the internodes about 3 or 4 cm. long; stipules of the stem- 
leaves 15-20 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad at the base, from which 
Ferd fedes regularly to an acute point, 3- or 5- -ribbed ; petioles 
6 ong, very stout; blades 8-13 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. 
mir regularly ovate with rounded base, acute apex and serrate 
margin, the teeth numerous, small, slightly irregular; thick- 
ish, pilose below, somewhat strigose above; stipules and leaves of 
the branches similar, but regularly smaller and slightly narrower; 
flowers solitary in the axils of leaves or bracts of short branchlets, 
the pedicels one-half the length of the calyx or more; bracteoles 
none; calyx 8-10 mm. long, strongly angled, cleft more than 
half way to the base, the lobes broadly triangular with acu- 
minate and acute apex ; petals light purple, about the length of the 
calyx; style-branches 10, stigmas capitate, rather large; ovary 
conical-ovoid; ovules pendulous; fruit not seen 
Mapiri, July-Aug., 1892 (1477). 
Species near S. achrantha. Dedicated to Mr. Edmund Baker, 
who has contributed much to our knowledge of this difficult order. 
SIDA GRACILIPES Sp. n. 
Stems numerous, erect or ascending from a long stout woody 
tap-root, very slender, 1.5-4 dm. long, terete, scabrous ; PA eos 
narrowly subulate, 5-7 mm. long, herbaceous; petioles 7-10 m 
long, slender; blades 2—4 cm. long, 1—2 cm. broad, ovate, pone 
from the cordate base to the obtusish apex, with coarsely serrate 
margins, 5—7-ribbed, membranaceous, very finely silky hairy both 
sides, especially above; peduncles mostly exceeding the leaves, 1- 
flowered or bearing a second flower near the summit, slender ; brac- 
teoles none; calyx, in flower, 8 mm. long, strongly angled, cleft to 
below the middie, long-hirsute on the angles, the lobes acuminate, 
ciliate, 3-5-nerved; petals light purple, slightly exceeding the 
calyx ; style 5-cleft; ovary spheroidal, strongly 5-lobed upon apex 
and sides ; fruit sharply 10-beaked. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1146). 
This is the same as No. 747, from La Granga, March, 1891, 
missed in Part t. of my enumeration. 
