80 MALVACE^. 



a. Carpids (6'" long) 3(-l)-seeded, witli minute scattered down, and longer, spreading, sub- 

 spinfiscent hairs, chiefly on the sutures. 



p. imierbe. Carpids (4'" long) 4-3-seeded, puberulous, but without spinescent hairs. — 

 Mch. Cub. t. 17. — Sida imberbis, DO. Abutilon trichodum, Mch. 



Hab. S. Vincent I, Guild.; [New Mexico, Texas!, Cuba! and Mexico! to Venezuela!, 

 East Indies!]. 



Sida filiformis, Jacq., of Martinique, is, according to its author, a distinct species, with 

 inflated caipids, distinguished by its herbaceous, procumbent stem, and yellow flowers. It 

 seems not to have been observed since, and Jacquin's description has been overlooked by sub- 

 qnent authors. 



7. BASTABDIA, Mh. 



Carpids 5-a> , uniovulate, not separating from each other, loculicidal to the base : valves 

 chartaceous. Hadicle superior. — Involncel 0. 



30. B. viscosa, Kth. SufEruticose, glandular and tomentose ; leaves cordate, pointed, 

 minutely toothed ; pedicels axillary, nearly equalling the petiole; calyx h-fid: lobes ovate, 

 pointed; petals yellow, small; capsule exceeding the calyx, 5 (—8) -celled, angular, rounded- 

 umbilicate, erostrate; seed pubescent. — SI. t. 139./. 4 ; L Her. Stirp. i. 53 bis; Cav. Diss, 

 t. 196./. 1.— Sida, L. S. foetida, Cav. S. retrofracta, i)C.— Calyx 2'" long, usually half 

 as long as the petals. The leaves are variable in size, and in the length of the petiole, the 

 pedicels either capillary or shortened, the calyx-lobes as long or longer than the tube. 



o. Pedicels capillary, equalling the elongated petiole. 



jS. parvifolia, Kth. Pedicels about the length of the capsule ; leaves small. — Kth. Nov. 

 Gen. t. 472.— Sida Bastardia, DC. 

 Hab. Jamaica I, Al., M'Nab, to Trinidad !, Lochh., Or.; [Cuba I to Brazil and Peru]. 



31. B. \Avti\v\B, Kth. Suifruticose, glandular and pubescent; leaves cordate, point- 

 leted, crenate; pedicels axillary, equalling the calyx, much shorter than the petiole ; calyx 

 h-partite: segments subulate, mucronate; petals yellow; capsule included within the calyx, 

 5-ceIled, subglobose : valves birostrate, convex on the back ; seed with, a scattered, minute 

 down. — Cav. Diss. t. 11./. 3. — Sida, Cav. S. viscosa, Macf. {non L.). — Calyx 3'", petals 

 4'" long ; carpid-beaks almost half the length of the cells. — Hab. Jamaica !, Al., Wils., near 

 Kingston, S. Davids ; [Haiti]. 



Tribe II. TJUENEM. — Carpels half as many as the stigmas, uniovulate. Radicle infe- 

 rior. Column usually ^-toothed at the summit. 



8. MALACHRA, L. 



Carpids 5, dry, at length separating from each other : style 10-fid. Involucel 0. — Suftu- 

 tescent, twially hispid herbs ; leaves toothed, often palmatilobed, those of the involucre 

 cordate or subulate, usually with a white spot at the base : stipules setaceous ; flowers glo- 

 merate; flower-heads axillary, surrounded by a stipulate involucre ; stamens about 20. 



32. M. capitata, L. Hispid; leaves roundish; flower-heads peduncled (sometimes 

 subsessile); calyx 5-fid, at length 5-partite : lobes subulate ; petals yellow (or white), 2-3 



, times the length of the calyx ; carpids glabrate, half the length of the calyx, the points of 

 which are then linear and erect. — Unn. in Act. TJpsal. 1743, t. 42. — Variable in the size of 

 the flower, the division of the antheriferous column, the carpids more or less couvex on the 

 back, their minute down either early disappearing, or persistent, and in the leaves entire or 

 somewhat lobed. 



a. Flower-heads shortly peduncled or subsessile ; petals twice the length of the calyx ; 

 anthers all approximate ; carpids glabrous. 



p. alceifolia, Jacq. Plower-heads peduncled ; petals (6'" long) three times the length of the 

 calyx ; several anthers separating from the sides of the column ; carpids puberulous.— ./ffleff. 

 Ic. Ear. t. 549; SI. t. 137./. 1; Cav. Diss. t. 33./. 1^ Schrani, St. Monac. t. 56.— M. 

 capitata, Cav. et Mch. Cub. M. rotundifolip, Sohrk. — Stem •6' high. 



y. albiflora. Flower- heads pednnded; petijs white, twice the length of the calyx; an- 

 thers all approximate; carpids puberulous. — Hab. Jamaica!, aU collectors, moist places; 

 Antigua!, Dominical, Imr.; [Cuba! and Mexico! to Brazil! and New Granada!, Congo].* 



