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26. A. leiospermutn, Gr. Snffnitecent, velvety with vsry tnmute down; leaves 

 cordate-rounded, pointed, unequally toothed or subtrilobed ; pedicels axillary, Solitary, jointed 

 below the top, equalling or exceeding the petiole; calyx h-fid, and at length deeply h-fid: 

 lobes ovate, pointleted, equalling the tube, and at length subcordate, then twice the length 

 of the tube, which is not plicate ; ■petals t/dlow, scarcely twice exceeding the calyx; carpids 

 12-20, twice the length of the calyx, villous, cuspidate, 3-seeded ; seeds polished, glabrous. 

 Gav. Diss. t. 14. /. 3. — Sida vesicaria, Gav. exclus. descript. fruct. : his figure represents 

 exactly the habit of pur plant (only the calpids are less pointleted), but his name is inappli- 

 cable, the carpids being formed as in .4 . indicmn. — Leaves thin, scabrous, and pale-green 

 above, glaucous-white beneath ; calyx 4"'-5"' long ; petals variable in size, usually 6"'-7"' 

 long ; carpids 8'" long. — Hab. Jamaica !, March. 



A. lignosum. Rich., is a nearly related species, stated to grow in Jamaica by Linnaeus, but 

 in later times only observed in Haiti and Cuba. From its figures it seems to be distinguished 

 by a 5-partite calyx, with the segments broadly cordate, and, according to Richai-d's descrip- 

 tion, by warty seeds ; its synonyms are Lavatera amerieana, L. ; Sida abutiloides, Jasq. 

 (Obs. 1. 1. 7) ; S. lignosa, Gav. (Diss. t. 6. f. 2) ; S. tricuspidata, Cav. (ib. I 5) ; and S. 

 crassifolia, L'Her. (Stirp. t. 60). >• 



27. A. elatum. Or. Shrubby, velvety-tomentose ; leaves cordate-rounded, pointleted, 

 crenate ; flowers paniculate : inferior peduncles divided above, 3-7 -flowered, lowest axfllary, 

 superior ones and pedicels racemose, jointed near the middle; calyx 5-partiie: segments 

 ovate, pointed ; petals orange-yellow, subreflexed, twice as long as the calyx ; carpids 8-10, 

 almost twice the length of the calyx, villous, cuspidate or pointed, 3-seeded ; seeds polished, 

 with a scattered down. — Sida, #a^. .' — A shrub, 6'-12' high; leaves green above, white 

 beneath; panicle spreading, pyramidal; calyx 3"'-4"' long; petals and carpids 6"' long.-^ 

 Hab. Jamaica !, Macf., Pd., Wils., in the soath-easteru district of S. David's. 



Sect. 4. AHODOPSIS. — Carpids 5-12, membranaceous, subinflated, birostrate, 

 bivalved to the base. Leaves usually S-5-fld. 



The character is taken from Sida vitifolia, Cav., as I have not seen the fruit of the 

 Jamaica species, which howevel is related in habit. 



28*. A. striatum, Diclcs. Shrubby, glabrous; leaves &-fid, serrate above the cor- 

 date base : lobes pointed ; pedicels axillary, solitary, not jointed, nearly equalling the leaf; 

 calyx deeply 5-fid: lobe^ ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, twice the length of the tube; petals 

 orange-yellovj and streaked with fed, twice exceeding the calyx, and exceeded by the styles ; 

 carpids 8 . . . — Descr. in Boi. Beg. Misc. 25. p. 39. — Calyx 8"' long. — Hab. Naturalized in 

 Jamaica!, March; [introduced from Brazil]. 



Sect. 5. Gayopsis. — Carpids 12-20, memlfanacdous, inflated, rounded at the top, tardily 

 separating and bivalved to the base, i-5-sdeded, or by abortion 1-seeded. 



Oaya, which this section approaches, is distinguished by the artificial character of uniovu- 

 late carpels, by their earlier separation, and by the free appendage in their cavity, which 

 Presl compared erroneously with the spurious dissepiment of Wissadula, but which, as it 

 proceeds from the carpid-base and developes a series of spinules on the outer margin (analo- 

 gous to the sutnral ones of A. crispum), seems nothing but the suture itself, becoming 

 loosened by the formation of juxtasutural dehiscence. The West Indian 6aya has not yet 

 been observed in the British Islands : this species is variable in the form of its leaves, and 

 several synonyms must be reduced to it ; 



[Gaya occidentalis, Gr. Carpids about 30. — Bill. Elth. t. 6 ; Plum. t. 2 ; Cav. Diss. I. 

 i.f. 3, t. 8.f. 1. — Sida, Z. ; ex ic. Dill. {PI. Mavanensis). S. spicata, Gav. Gaya affinis, 

 Bich. Cub. — Giiba!, Haiti, S. Barthelemi; Quito!] 

 / 29. A. crispum, 0. Bon. Suffrntescent, branched, velvety; leaves cordate-roundish, 5^, 

 ' pointleted, crenate, superior subsfssile; pedicels axillary, solitary, jointed below the top, ji 

 nearly equalling the leaf; calyx deeply 5-fid : lobes ovate, pointed ; petals whitish, exceeding i/M 

 -the calyx ; carpids about 12 ; seeds polished, obsoletely puberulous. — Bill. Elth. t. 5 : Plum. 

 t.25; Cav. Bias. t. If. 1, t. 135. f. 2 ; As. Gr. Gen. Bar. Amer. t. 126.— Sida, L. Bas- 

 fardia, St. Hil.—Galfx %'", petals 3"'-4"', carpids 4"'-6"' long. 



