PLAT1:'. DLXXXVIII. 



D 



H 



S T A T A. 



Halberd-leaved Sida. 





CLASS XVI. ORDER VIII. 



MONAD E L PHI A POL Y ANURIA. One Brotherhood. Many Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx simplex, angulatus. Stylus multi-parti- 

 tus. Capsulae plures, 1- seu 3-spermae. 



Cup simple-angled. Shafts many-parted. Seed- 

 pods many, one- to three-seeded, - 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Sida foliis inferioribus cordatis angulatis, supe- j 

 rioribus elongato-hastati- ; peduneulis axil- 

 laribus, unifloris, longissimis. 



Sida hastata, mild. Sp. PL 



Sida with the lower leaves somewhat heart- 

 shaped and angled, the upper ones long- 

 halberd-shaped ; flower-stalks very long, 

 one-flowered, and axillary. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 



1 . The chives spread open. 



2. The pointals. 



species was first properly distinguished and described by the Spanish 



Dissertat 



upon 



founded 



botanists 



and both Professor Martyn in his Dictionary and Willdenow 



now 



number 



Most of the species have been destined by nature 



hastata was found hv thft Frcnrh hnranict Dnmhfiv 



growing naturally in Peru and Lima in moist places 3 and A. B. Lambert 

 the specimen last September, received the seeds from the East Indies. T 

 enumerated bv Cavanillps and 



Willdenow we have not seen. 



been 



tie two other varieties of thi§ 

 lant is annual, and has yet 



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