326 XXVI. MALVACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Aiutilon. 



Gen. Si/st. i. 500 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 55 ; Thwaites Enum. 27 ; Dah. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 17 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Ea). i. pf. 2, 144. Sida oxyphylla, Wall. Gat. 



1850. S. .polyandra, Rcxb. Hort. Beng. 50, Fl. Ind. iii. 173; Wall. Gat. 



1851, D, E, F. S. persica, Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 47, f. 1 ; Gav. Diss. i. t. 4, f . 1 ; 

 BG. Prodr. i. 473. S. macrophylla. Wall. Gat. 1861, D. 



Nokth-Wbst PEOViNOEa, Teopical Himalava, Westekk Peninsula, Biema, 

 Ceylon. — Distrib. Java, South Trop. Africa, Persia ? 



Annual or perennial. Leaves 4-5 in., downy, especially teneath ; petiole 4 in. 

 Pedunales clustered in small terminal racemes, jointed near the top. Hepals lanceolate, 

 forming a bell-shaped tulje below. Corolla 1^ in. diam. Carpels hispid exceeding 

 the calyx, awns erect. 



2. A., asiaticum, G. Don Gen. Syst. i. 503; leaves rugose above 

 velvety beneath acute or acuminate, toothed, cordate at the base, sepals 

 ovate acute or acuminate, petals overlapping, ripe carpels about 20 

 hispid scarcely longer than the calyx, awns erect. Thwaites Enum. 27; 

 W. & A. Prod. i. 56; Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 184. fciida asiatica, 

 Linn. 8p. 964 ; Gav. Diss. i. t. 7, f. 2, and v. t. 128, f. 1 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 i. pt. 2, 145 ; rHer. Stirp. 130. 



Westebn Peninsula ; Ceylon. — ^Distkib. Tropics of both hemispheres. 



Herbaceous or suffrutescent. Leaves 3-4 in. and more, subscabrid above, velvety 

 beneath ; stipules linear, deflexed. Peduncles stout, jointed near the flower, longer 

 than the petiole. Flowers yellow, 2 in. diam. Calyx campanulate Carpets rarely 

 liiuticous. 



The synonymy of this and the two following species is much confused. The A. 

 asiaticum of Wight's herbarium is indistinguishable from A. indicum of Don. The 

 rugose upper surface of the leaf mentioned by L'Heritier is one of the best marks of 

 this species, the shape of the calyx-lobes, and the relative size and amount of pubes- 

 cence of the carpels is more variable. 



3. A. indicum, G. Don Gen. Syst. 1. 504 ; leaves cordate nearly entire 

 or irregularly toothed covered on both surfaces with closely-felted white 

 down with few or no hairs intermingled, sepals ovate acute, ripe carpels 

 15-20 longer than the calyx glabrescent truncate or shortly awned, awns 

 spreading. A. asiaticum, W. & A. Prodr. i. 56, not Sida asiatica, Linn.; 

 W.&A. Prodr. i. 56 ; Wight. Ic. t. 12; Dah. & Gihs. Bomb. Fl. 18 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 27 ; Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 186 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 

 I4fi. Sida indica, L.; DC. Prodr. i. 471 ; Gav. Diss. i. p. 33, t. 7, t 10 ; Pood). 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 179 ; Wall. Gat. 1859, 1, 2, D, F. 



Generally distributed throughout tropical India (wanting in Malacca). Ceylon, 

 Tiiwaites. — Distbib. Tropics. 



Annual or perennial. iHipvUes deflexed. Peduncles longer than the p,etioleB, jointed 

 near the top. Flowers yellow, 1 in. diam., opening in the evening. 



Vak. 1. populifoUum, W. & A. Prodr. i. 56, var. /3; leaves more or less acuminate. 

 Abutilou populifiilium, G. Don Oen. Syst. i. 503; Sida populifolia. Lam.; Cav.J)iss. 

 i. t. 7, f. 9 ; DO. Prodr. i. 470 ; Boxb. FL Ind. iii. 179 ; WaU. Cat. 1858 ; Sida 

 Beloere, L'Her. Stirp. i. 130. S. Eteromischos, Cav. Diss, ii, 55, and v. p. 275, t. 128. 

 — Mmnph. Amb. iv. t. xi. ; Bheede Hort. Mai. vi. t, 65. 



Lamarck's plant is open to doubt, as the stem is described as purplish, and the stipules 

 as spirally twisted. 



4. A. bidentatum, HocM. in A. Rich. FL Abyss, i. 68; leaves cordate- 

 ovate acuminate crenate-toothed, stipules short subulate, panicles axillary, 

 peduncles shorter than the leaves, ripe carpels 20 smooth exceeding the 

 calyx, awns spreading. Ma^. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 186. 



North-West froyisces, Mdgeworth; Sindh, Stocks; Panjab, T. Thomson; Con- 

 can. — Distbib. Tropical Africa and Arabia. 



