78 MALVACE^. 



Hab. Jamaica!, Maqf., Al., March, in dry situations (confounded in Macfedyen's Flora 

 with &da divergmi) ; Trinidad ! (j3), Or. ; [Cuba I, New Granada !, Brazil !, from tlie Equator 

 to Minas Geraes, Peru, Cape Terde Islands!, Senegambia !, Nubia!, Abyssinia!]. 



Sect. 2. Anasida.^ — Carjnds 5-10, not irt^ted nor constricted, Hrostrate, 2-S-sper- 

 moits, dehiscent ietuoeen the beaks and the dOrsal line. 



%%. A. umbellatum, Swt. Sufrutescent or shrubby, scabrous or pubescent with mi- 

 nute down; leaves cordate-rounded, pointleted, crenate, <&esL obsoletely 3-lobed; pedicels 

 jointed near the top, umbellate or corymbose : peduncles axillary or racemose along the stem 

 and branches; calyx pilose, 5 -fid: lobes subulate; petals yellow, twice the length of the 

 calyx ; carpids 5, ovate, hirsute, nearly equalling the appressed calyx or shortly exserted, 

 twice as long as the double aristiform beak ; seeds muricate, glabrous. — Jacq. Ht. Tind. 

 1. 1. 66; Cav. Diss. t. &.f. 3, t. 129. y. 2: probably by mistake, there are in this figure 

 ten styles, of which I never saw more than five. — Sida, L. — An erect, branched herb or low 

 shrub ; calyx at length globose, 4'" diam., when in flower about 2"' long and 3"'-4"' broad. 

 —Hab. Jamaica!, Al.; [S. Thomas !]. 



Sect. 3. BELtEKE.-^CaTjiiife 5-oo , coriaceous, compressed, pointed or unirostrate or Hunt 

 at the divergent apex, dehiscent along the ventral suture, and at length along the dorsal 

 Ime. — The carpid-beak may become divided by dorsal dehiscence, but is never bifid in the 

 early state, as in Anasida. 



23. A. indicum, G. Don. Sulfruticose or shmbby, velvety-tomentose, and usually 

 with a pilose down on the stem ; leaves cordate-rounded, pointed, unequally toothed ; pedi- 

 ■ eels axillary, subsolitary, jointed below the top, nearly equalling the petiole; cali/x h-Jld: 

 lobes ovate, pointed : tube not plicate ; petals yellow, "twice exceeding the calyx ; carpids 

 12--30, mucronate, 3-9-seeded, equalling or shortly exceeding the excrescent calyx ; seeds 

 warty, glabrous.— Cav. Diss. t. I.f. 2, 5, 6, 10, t. 128./. 1, 2, t. 129./. 1.— Sida in- 

 dica, americana, asiatica, Z. S. populifolia, hirta. Lam. S. pubescens, Cav. S. abutiloides, 

 Macf. I fyion Jacq.). Abut, indictim, asiaticum, hirtum, G. Don. A. graveolena, W. Am. ! 

 -^Stem 2'-10' high; leaves white beneath with velvety down;, calyx 4"'-5"' long; petals 

 orange-coloured, with a dark spot at the base. — This species is very variable : in the more 

 or less developed spreading hairs of the stem and petioles, the leaf-teeth (sometimes passing 

 into lobes), the rounded or more pointed top of the carpids, the length of their terminal 

 mucro (usually 1'" long), and the hairs covering them being Short or elongated. 



o. Carpids covered with short hairs, at length glabrescent. 



p. asiaticum. Carpids hirsute. — Sida asiatica, Z. 



y. hirtum. Stem densely pilose. — Abut, hirtum, Gs. A. graveolens, W. A. 



Hab. Jamaica!, Dist., Bancr., Macf., Will., common in dry situations (o, 7) ; Antigua!, 

 Nichols, (fi) ; Dominica !, Tmr. (o) ; S. Vincent !, Guild, (o) ; Barbadoes ! (a, 0) ; Trinidad !, 

 Sohach (o); [Cuba, Panama!; Niger, Nubia! to Mozambique!; East Indies!]. 

 ^- 24. A. pedunculare, Kth. SufEruticOse, velvety-tomentose, and with a pilose down 

 on the stem; leaves cordate-rounded, pointed, crenate; pedicels mostly axillary, jointed 

 below the top, exceeding or equalling the petiole; caiyx deeply h-fld: lobes subcordate and 

 reduplicative at the base, subulate, scarcely twice as long as .the tube, which ia plicate at the 

 top of the sutures ; petals rose-coloured, not much exceeding the calyx : carpids 12-;20, 

 shortly exceeding the calyx, villous, mucronate, 3-9-seeded ; seeds warty and with scattered 

 down. — Sida, DC, Macf.! — Nearly allied to the preceding. Stem 2'-8' high; leaves 

 velvety on both sides, white beneath ; calyx 6"'-8"' long ; petals about 10'" long.'— Hab. 

 Jamaica!, baffler., Jlfag/'., .4^, i&reA,- [New Granada!, equatorial Brazil]. 



25. A. permoUe, G. Don. Shrubby; leaves velvety, cordate-rounded, pointleted, cre- 

 nate; flowers shortly racemose and axillary: pedicels jointed below the top, about twice the 

 length of the flower; calyx deeply S-fid, and at length 6-partite: lobes ovate, at length sub- 

 cordate, pointed: tube not plicate; petals yellow, twice the length of the calyx; carpids 

 7-10, shortly exceeding the calyx, villous, pointed, and mucronate, 3-seeded ; seeds warty, 

 glabrous.— SiAa, F!- Leaves velvety on both sides, whitish beneath, those of the inflores- 

 cence mostly reduced; pedicels 6"'-8"' long ; calyx, when flowering, 3'"-^'" long; petals 6"'-8"' 

 .Jong; carpids 4"'-5"' long.— Hab. Bahama Islands!, Swains.; [Cuba!, Southern Florida]" 



