SIDA. 



in Europe, though S. jibutilon is reported to grow in Si- 

 beria and Switzerland, where it may perhaps have been 

 naturahzed ; as has happened to various tropical annuals in 

 colder climates than what is natural to them. Abyffinia 

 bas afforded one new fpecies to our gardens ; bcfides \vhich, 

 34, exchifive of the Napciit, are enumerated in Mr. Alton's 

 valuable work. 



The habit of all is more or lefs (hrubby, though feveral 

 have annual roots. The leaves are alternate, ftalked, Ample ; 

 either entire, notched, or lobed. Inflorefcence moitly ax- 

 illary. Flowers yellow, reddifli, or white. The fpecies 

 are difpofed in fedtions, according to the {hape of the 

 foliage. We (hall give various examples. 



Seft. I. Leaves lanceolate, more or lefs narroiv, oblong, 

 »r ovate. Seventeen fpecies. 



S. anguJlifoUa. Narrow-leaved Sida. Murray in Linn. 

 Syft. Veg. ed. 14. 621. Willd. n. 2. Ait. n. i. L'Herit. 

 Stirp. 89. t. 52. Cavan. DilT. 14 and 48. t. 2. f. 2.— 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, toothed. Stipulas fetaceous, with 

 axillary fpines. Flower-llalks fimple, moftly folitary. 

 Capfules with beaked valves. — Native of Brafil. Perennial, 

 with a fhrubby, branched, downy Jlem, three feet or more 

 in -height. Leaves pale and downy beneatli, about two or 

 three inches long, half an inch broad, on fhort Jlalks, ac- 

 companied at the bafe by two or three minute fpliies, as well 

 as ered narrow _y?;/iu/aj-. Co7-o//j pale, yellow, oblique. 



S.fpinofa. Prickly Sida. Linn. Sp. PI. 960. Willd. 

 n. 6. Alt. n. 2. Purfh n. I. Cavan. DifT. 11. t. i. f. 9. 

 (Alcea carpini folio, americana frutefcens, flofcuHs luteis, 

 femine duplici roitro donato ; Comm. Hort. v. i. 3. t. 2.) 

 — Leaves ovato-lanceolate, ferrated ; fomewhat heart-fhaped 

 at the bafe. Stipulas fetaceous, with axillary fpines. 

 Flower-ftalks fimple, moftly folitary. Capfules with beaked 

 valves. — Native of the Eaft and Weft Indies, Senegal, 

 Arabia Felix, and North America. Mr. Purfti fays it is 

 found among rubbifti, and by road-fides, from Pennfylvania 

 to Carolina, flowering in July and Auguft. This ivas one 

 of the earlieft fpecies cultivated in England, but rather for 

 curiofity than beauty. The broader leaves principally dif- 

 tinguifh it from the former, for ihm Jlowers are nearly 

 fimilar. The root is annual or biennial. 



S. htfpida. Hifpid Sida. Purfti n. 2. — " Rough with 

 briftly hairs. Leaves lanceolate, ferrated. Flower-ftalks 

 axillary, the length of the footftalks. Outer calyx thread- 

 ftiaped." — Defcribed by the above author, from the her- 

 barium of Mr. Lyon, who is faid to have met witli this 

 plant in the fandy plains of Georgia in North America. 

 Tiie Jloiuers are yellow. If they have really an exte.-nal 

 ealyx, the plant can be no Sida ; but perhaps a fimple feta- 

 ceous braclea is all that is meant by the above definition. 

 We have fecn no fpccimcn. 



S. carfmtfolia. Hornbeam-leaved Sida. Linn. Suppl. 

 307. Willd. n. 8. Ait. n. 3. Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 135. 

 Cavan. Dift. 274. t. 134. f. I. — Leaves ovate-oblong, 

 fmooth, clofcly lerratcd. Stalks axillary, about four- 

 flowered. Capfule with beaked Talves. — Mr. Maflbn met 

 with this ftirub in the garden of a Francifcan convent, in 

 Madeira, and fent it to Kew garden in 1 774, where it is 

 treated as a green-houfe plant, flowering moll part of the 

 fummer. The native country has not been afcertained. 

 The branches are hairy, fpreading, like the leaves, in two 

 direftion?. The latter are two or three inches long, and 

 nearly half as broad, fmooth, with crowded, acute, fome- 

 what unequal, or doubled, ierratures, each tipped with a 

 briftle, as in the genus Carpinus. Calyx fmooth. petals 

 yellow, oblique, and partly notched. Capfule of eight cells, 

 each Laving two fpinous beaks. j'. planleaulis, Cavan. 



Diff. 24. t. 3. f. II, is acknowledged by that writer him- 

 felf to be the fame plant in a young or imperfeft con- 

 dition. 



S. maculata. Spotted-flowered Sida, Cavan. Difl'. 20. 

 t. 3. f. 7. Willd. n. 12. — Leaves ovate, obtufe, ferrated, 

 downy. Flowers axillary, folitary ; racemofe at the ends 

 of the branches. Capfule with beaked valves. — Native of 

 Hifpaniola. Ths Jlem is woody and downy. Lower leaves 

 orbicular; upper ovate, abrupt, with a terminal point. 

 Stipulas awl-fhaped, ereft, downy. Floiver-Jlalks with a 

 joint. Calyx villous. Corolla large, yellow, with a reddifh 

 fpot on the bafe of each petal. Capfule of nine cells. 



S. fuberofa. Corky Sida. L'Herit, Stirp. 113. t. 54. 

 Willd. n. 13. Ait. n. 4. — Leaves ovale, ftrongly fer- 

 rated, hairy. Stalks axillary, fingle-flowered, twice the 

 length of the footftalks. Capfule with beaked valves. Stem 

 corky at the bafe. — Native of Hifpaniola. Introduced to 

 the ftoves at Kew in 1798, by fir Juftly Green, bart., but 

 it has not yet flowered. The Jiem is one or two feet high, 

 branched, the bark of the lower part corky, and full of 

 fiffures ; branches hairy. Leaves more oval than in S. car- 

 pinifoUa, pale and hairy, Flo-uiers an inch broad, orange- 

 coloured, with a purple central ring, ihm Jlalis znA calyx 

 hairy. Capfule fmall, of nine, flightly connected, cells. 

 The corky bark, which L'Heritier compares to that of 

 Pajfiflora fuberofa, is fuppoled peculiar to the prefent 

 fpecies. 



Seft. 2. Leaves nvedge-Jhaped at the bafe. 



S. rhombifolia. Rhomb-leaved Sida. Linn. Sp. PI. 961. 

 Willd. n. 18. Ait. u. 5. Purfti u. 3. Cavan. Difl. 23 

 and 48. t, 3. f, 12. (Malvinda unicornis, folio rhomboide, 

 perennis ; Dill. Elth. 216. t. 172. f. 212.) — Leaves ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acute, ferrated ; wedge-lhaped and entire 

 at the bafe. Flower-ftalks ftiorter than the leaves. Stipulas 

 fetaceous, with axillary fpines. — Native of both Indies and 

 of North America. Cultivated in curious ftoves, where it 

 bloiioms in kimmer ; but the fmall yellow _^owfr.f have lefs 

 beauty to boaft than moft of the preceding, with which the 

 plant agrees in habit, except the tapering entire bafe of its 

 leaves, whofe under fide is a httle glaucous, 



S. ciliaris. Ciliated Sida, Linn, Sp, PI. 961. Willd. 

 n. 22. Ait. n. 7. C.ivan. Difl. 21, t. 3. f. 9, and 275. 

 t. 127. f. 2. (Malva minor fupina, beconicse folio, flore 

 coccineo, feminibus afperis ; Sloane Jam. v, i. 217. t. 137. 

 f. 2.) — Leaves oval, abrupt, ferrated ; entire and fomewhat 

 wedge-fliaped at the bafe. Stipulas linear, fringed, longer 

 than the folitary, nearly feflile, flowers. Capfule; prickly, 

 not beaked. — Native of dry grafly places in Jamaica, and 

 other parts of the Weft Indies, flowering after rains. A 

 fmaU, procumbent, rather flirubby fpecies, whofe leaves are 

 fcarcely an inch in length, and whofe long fringed Jiipulas 

 are very remarkable. The Jloivers are crimfon. Seeds, at 

 well as capfules, rough with minute hairs. 



Seft, 3. Leaves henrt-Jhaped, entire, or nearly fo. 



S. periplocifoUa. Great Bind-weed-leaved Sida. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 962. Willd. n. 23. Ait. n. 8. Cavan. Di(f. 26. 

 t. 5. f. 2. (Abutilon periplocK acutioris foho, fruftu 

 ftellato ; Dill. Elth. 4. t. 3.) — Leaves heart-ftiaped, en- 

 tire ; elongated at the point ; downy beneath. Flower- 

 ftalks axillary and terminal, fomewhat panicled, much 

 longer than the footftalks. Capfule with five awned cells. 

 — Native of both Indies ; long known in our gardens, 

 where it proves annual or biennial only, even in the ftove, 

 flowering in fummer. Dillenius fufpefts it to be perennial 

 and ftirubby in its native country. The flem with us is 

 three or four feet high. The entire pale or hoary leaves 

 bear fome refemblance to thofe of Cjnanchum acutum, 



though 



