SIDA. 



r iiough more elongated. This laft plant being reckoned a 

 Periphca by Tournefort and Dillenius, caufed the above 

 fpecific name. The flowers are yellowifh, fmall, and fuga- 

 cious, opening in brijrht funfhiiie only. 



S. nudiflnra. Naked-flowered Sida. L'Herit. Stirp. 

 123. t. 59, double. WiUd. n. 26. Ait. n. 10. (S. pe- 

 ripiocifolia B ; Linn. Sp. PI. 963. S. ftcUata ; Cavan. 

 Diir. 27 and 349. t. 5. f. 4. Abutilon ampliflimo folio, 

 caule villofo ; Plum. Ic. 2. t. 3.) — Leaves roundifh-heart- 

 (haped, pointed, obfcurely crenate ; downy beneath. Pa- 

 nicle terminal, racemofe, leafiefs. Capfulcs without awns. 

 — Native of Peru and the Weft Indies. Cultivated by 

 Miller in 1731. Linnasus confounded this with the latt, 

 from which it differs in being a more handfome plant, with 

 larger more copious jloivers, rounder leaves, wliofe edges 

 are fcarcely ever entire, but minutely crenate ; and capfuhs 

 of five, fix, or feven cells, pointed, but deftitute of awns. 



Seft. 4. Leaves heart-Jhaped, indented. Stcdks Jingle- 

 flowered. 



S. triquetra. Triangular-ftalked Sida. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 9C2. Willd. n. 27. Ait. n. 11. Jacq. Hort. Vind. 

 V. 2. 54. t. 1 18. Cavan. Dili'. 26. t. 5. f. I. — Leaves 

 hcart-fhaped, pointed, finely ferrated. Flower-ilalks fome- 

 what racemofe. Capfule abrupt, without awns. Branches 

 triangular. — Native of the Weft Indies. Sent to Kew by 

 profedor Jacquin, its original difcoverer, in 1775. This 

 is confiderably allied to the laft in habit, though differing 

 cflentially in the charafters here indicated. The primary 

 flotver-Jlalls are indeed folitary and axillary, but the greater 

 part are racemofe and leaflels. Floivers fmall, yellow, with 

 a purple eye. Capfuhs of five clofe, elongated, parallel 

 lobes, abrupt at tlic fummit, each lobe, or cell, pointed, 

 but not awned. 



S. patens. Spreading Sida. Andr. Repof. t. 571. Ait. 

 n. 13. — Leaves hcart-fhaped, pointed, deeply ferrated. 

 Flower-ftalks hairy, folitaivy, much longer than the foot- 

 flalks. Capfule of five feparate, taper-pointed cells. — The 

 feeds of this fine new fpecies were brought by Mr. Salt 

 from Abyflinia, and plants were raifed from them by lord 

 vilcount Valentia, in 1806. It flowers in the ilove from 

 July to September, and is biennial. The branches are 

 round, and flightly hairy, like all the Jlalis, and the large, 

 flcnder-pointed leaves, whofe margins are deeply and acutely 

 ferrated. Floivers near two inches wide, yellow fpecklcd 

 with orange ; xheir petals fpreading and undulated. Cells of 

 the capfule diftinft almoll to the very bafe, near an inch long, 

 ovate, tapering gradually to a point, each containing four 

 or five feeds. 



S. crifpa. Bladder Sida. Linn. Sp PI. 964. Willd. 

 n. 40. Ait. n. 16. Purfli n. 4. Cavan. Dili. 30. t. 7. 

 f. I. and 275. t. 135, f. 2. (Abutilon americanum, 

 fruftu lubrotundo pendulo, e capfulis veficariis crifpis con- 

 flato ; Mart. Cent. 29. t. 29. A. veficarum crifpum, flori- 

 bus melinis parvis ; Dill. Eltli. 6. t. 5. A. aliud vefiearium, 

 Jlore lutco, minus; Plum. le. IJ. t. 25*.) — Leaves heart- 

 Ihaped, pointed, crenate, downy. Flower-ftalks folitary ; 

 deflcxed when in fruit. Capfule of numerous, inflated, 

 membranous, undulated cells. — Native of the Bahama 

 iflands, and the fea-coaft of Carolina, flowering from July 

 to September. An annual fpecies, otten feeu in curious 

 gardens, and remarkable for the bladdery peiid ulcus yVu//, 

 of many tumid cell?, with undulating furrows between. 

 T\k Jlowcrs are fmall and white, on long, (lender, fimplc, 

 axillary ftalks. 



S. fylvaliccu Tawny-flowered Sida. Cavan. DilT. 56 

 .and 276. t. 133. f. 2. Willd. n. 42. — Leaves heart- 

 fliaped, taper-pointed, crenate, finely downy. Flower- 



ftalks axillary, aggregate, fingle-flowercd, much longer 

 tlian the footftalks. Capfules orbicular, of numerous ab- 

 rupt cells. — Gathered by Dombey, in woods near the river 

 Maragnon, in Peru. This fine fpecieS, not noticed in the 

 HortusKewenfis, flowered in Mr. Cooper's ftove at Norwich, 

 in November, 181 1. We have alfo a Peruvian Ipecimen, 

 unnamed, from the late M. L'Heritier. The ftem is eight 

 or ten feet high, with numerous, round, downy, leafy 

 branches. Leaves ftalked, roundifli-heart-fliaped, with a 

 long taper point, finely crenate throughout, five or foven- 

 ribbed, clothed on botii fides with foft, velvet-like, denfc 

 pubefcence ; rather paler beneath ; the lower ones a fpan or 

 more in length, and about half as much in breadth ; upper 

 much fmaller and narrower, with Awrtcrfootjlalh. Flower^ 

 Jlalks two, three, or four together, from the bofoms of the 

 upper leaves, and about half their length, equal, creft, 

 fingle-flowered, downy, jointed near the top, but without 

 Iradeas. Calyx covered with denfe ftarry down. Corolla 

 fpreading about an inch and a half, of a peculiar pale 

 brownifh-orange, or bright cinnamon colour, very elegant, 

 though not gaudy. Capfule, according to Cavanilks, glo- 

 bofe, concave in the middle, downy, of from thirty to 

 thirty-fix clofe, comprefled, abrupt, unawned, fingle-feeded 

 cells. 



S. arborea. Great-flowered Sida. Linn. Suppl. 307. 

 Willd. n. 43. Ait. n. 17. L'Herit. Stirp. 131. t. 63. 

 (S. peruviana; Cavan. Difl'. 36. t. 7. f. 8, and 276. 

 t. 130.) — Leaves orbicular, heart-diaped, crenate, finely 

 downy, with fhort points. Flower-ftalks axillary, folitary, 

 fingle-flowered, longer than the footftalks. Capf^ules orbi- 

 cular, of numerous abrupt cells. — Native of Peru. A 

 green-honfe rather than a ftove-plant, both at Paris and 

 London, flowering in the latter part of fummer. This is 

 much larger in all its parts than the foregoing, to whicli it 

 is, in many refpefts, nearly allied. The leaves however 

 differ in their fliort points, greater breadth, and more orbi- 

 cular form, the lobes at their bafe folding over each other, 

 fo as to give the leaf a peltate afpeft. The footjlalks are 

 fix inches long in the lower leaves, two or three in the 

 upper. From the bofoms of the latter proceed \\\c Jtower- 

 Jlalks, twice the length of their correfpondiiig footftalks, 

 always folitary, as far as we have obferved, though WiU- 

 denow fays they are in pairs. We fufpeft he confounded 

 this fpecies and the laft. The Jlowers are full twice tiie 

 lize of 6'. fylvatica, and of a pale fulphur-colour, or yeU 

 lowifh-vvhite. 



S. /Ibulilon. Broad-leaved Yellow Sida. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 963. Willd. n. 47. Ait. n. 21. (Altha;a altera, 

 five Abutilon; Camcr. Epit. 668. A. lutea ; Ger. Em. 

 935. Abutilon Avicennsc ; Befl. Hort. Eyft. jcftiv. ord. 6. 

 t. 10. f. I.) — Leaves roundifll-heart-fliaped, pointed, 

 tootlied, downy. Flower-ftalks axillary, folitary, fliorter 

 than the footftalks. Caplules orbicular, of numerous', ab- 

 rupt, double-beaked cells. — Native of both Indies ; long 

 cultivated in the gardens of Europe, and partly naturali/ed 

 in the warmer parts, fo that H.iller admits it as a Swifg 

 plant, undir his n. lO/J. Gerarde raifed it every year, 

 from Sj)anini or Italian leeds ; for he fays it hardly ripened 

 any in his garden, not flowering till September. The 

 root is annual. Stem much branched. Leaves not unlike 

 the arborea in fliape, but more pointed, more coarfely 

 notched, often obicurely lobed, and lefs foftly pubefceiit. 

 Flowers yellow, not an inch wide, folitary, except that 

 each is frequently accompanied by a young flowering branch. 

 Capfules downy, with a fliarp, ilouble, incurved beak to eacli 

 ceil. — 'I'his, like many other old garden plants, of which no 

 coloured plates exiit, ought to be figured in periodical puh- 



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