328 XXVI. MALVACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Abutilon. 



globose bent downwards when ripe, carpels 12 or more wrinkled mem- 

 branous awnless. Wight Ic. t. 68 ; W.& A. Prodr. i 56 ; Thwaites Enum. 

 401. Sida crispa L. ; DC. Prod/r. i. 469; Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 177; Wall. 

 Cat. 1857 C, D, E, F. S. indica, Cav. Diss. 33, tab. 7, f. 10? and of Herb. 

 Heyne. S. montana, Roxh. Ic. ined. 



Western pehinsula ; Nilghirrliis Mts., the Dekkan, and Coromandel. — Dianai. 

 Tropical and subtropical America. 



A weak ditfuse annual. Leaves 2-3 by 14 in. ; stipules filiforta. Peduncles as long 

 as the petiole, geniculate above the middle. Flowers small, yellow. Calyx tubular 

 below, divided beyond the middle into lanceolate sepals. Carpels obtuse, nearly gla- 

 brous, 2-3-seeded. Seeds pilose. 



** Carpels not eaxxeding 10. 



9. A., ramosum, Guill. d& Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 68 ; leaves ovate-cordate 

 acuminate, peduncles shorter than the petioles, sepals free for half their 

 length, ripe carpels about 10 m^uch exceeding the sepals, hispid, awns spread- 

 ing. Ma^. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 186. A. sidoides, Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 18. bida ramosa, Cav. Diss. i. 28, t. 6, f. 1. 



North- West pbovinces; Gotscxth, Dalzell. — Distsib. Tropical Africa. 



Suffrutescent. Branches downy and with thin spreading hairs. Leaves long- 

 petioled, sometimes 3-cuspidate, crenate-serrate. Peduncles axillary and terminal, tri- 

 chotomous. Calyx-tube broadly cup-shaped. Sepals ovate, acute. Petals twice as 

 long as the sepals. 



10. A. fruticosum, GuUl. & Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 73 ; leaves ovate-cordate 

 acute, stipules linear, carpels 10 truncate awnless pointed but little longer 

 than the calyx. Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 836 ; Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Prop. Afr. i. 

 187. A. microphyllum, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 70, t. 15. A. albidum, 

 Webb. S Berth. Phyt. Canar. iii. 39, t. 2. t Sida amsena. Wall. Cat. 1848. 



SmuH, StocJes, Aitcheson ; Ikeawaddi? Wallich. — Distkib. Tropical Africa, Arabia, 

 Java. 



Sufirutescent, covered with white down. Leaves small, denticulate or nearly entire; 

 petiole short. Peduncles solitary, axillary, shorter than the petiole, 1-3-flowered, 

 pedicels jointed above the middle. Sepals ovate, acute, scarcely cuspidate, combined- 

 below into a shallow cup. Fruit cylindric, truncate, scarcely exceeding the calyx. 

 Seeds sparingly pilose. — £)alzeU says the flowers of this species expand at midday like 

 the Sidas. 



11. A. neil^taerrense, Munro in Wight. III. t. 66 ; sufFruticose, sub- 

 glabrous, leaves whitish beneath roundish deeply peltate-cordate acumi- 

 nate crenate ; peduncles about the length of the petiole, corolla spreading, 

 carpels truncate, twice the length of the sepals. 



Westekn Pesinsdla, Nilghirrhis Mts., Munro. 



Leaves somdtimes 74 in. Peduncles 2-10-flowered. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 

 villous. Petals obovate, united below into a short tube, hairy at the orifice. Tube of 

 the stamens glabrous. Carpels about 9. — 1 only know this species from Munro's descrip- 

 tion above cited. 



In addition to the foregoing species, A. auritum (Sida aurita, Wall. Cat. 1860), a 

 Javanese plant, is cultivated in India, and is sometimes met with as an escape from 



