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veflexed: capsule hairy: carpels 25-30, acute: flowers large, deep 
orange. 
Peninsula. Bengal. Hindostan. Flowering in the cold season- 
(6) A. romenrosum. (W. & A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 56. 
Syn. Sida tomentosa, Roxb. fl. Ind. ITI. p. 178. 
Srrc. Cuan. Annual: branches pubescent and hairy: leaves 
round, cordate, tomentose, toothed: pedicels jointed near the flower, 
thickish, usually aranged in an axillary, leafless raceme: calyx 
very tomentose: segments short and broad, long-pointed: petals 
obliquely obcordate: capsule globose, depressed, very tomentose, 
shorter than the calyx: carpels kidney-shaped: flowers large, light 
orange. 
Peninsula. Bengal. Flowering nearly all the year. 
(7) A. siporpes. (Dalz.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 18. 
Spsc. Cuar. Fruticose, erect: leaves round-cordate, acutely 3~ 
lobed, coarsely crenated, slightly ciliated on the margin: peduncles 
axillary, solitary, bearing 2 pedicels which are jointed in the mid~ 
dle: calyx cleft to the middle: segments suddenly acuminated : 
carpels 5-7, covered with glutinous pubescence, bicuspidate, twice 
as long as the calyx, 3-seeded: seeds tubercled: flowers very small, 
yellow. 
Cambay. 
GENUS XIII. SIDA. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. A name applied by Theophrastus to a malvaceous plant. 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx 5-cleft, persistent, without an involucel : 
ovary 5, or many-celled, with one ovule in each cell: styles equal 
in number to the cells: stigmas capitate: capsules consisting of 5 
or more 1-seeded, 2-valved cocci. 
(1) S. acura. (Burm.) 
Ident. W.&A. prod. I. p. 57.—Dee. prod. I. p. 460. 
Syn. S. lanceolata, Retz,—S. Stauntoniana, Dec. prod. I. p, 
460.—S. coparia, Lour. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. I. t. 95.—Rheede Mal. X. t. 53.— 
Rumph. Amb. VI. t. 18. 
Sprc. Cuar. Shrubby: leaves narrow-lanceolate, acuminated, 
slightly .sprinkled above with hairs, coarsely serrated: stipules 
linear, acuminated, ciliated, often longer than the petiole: pedicels 
