MALVACEAE. JgJ 



3. SID A, Linn., Kunth. 

 1. Sida sulphurea, Gray. 



Sida (Pseudo-Malvastruni) sulphurea, Gray, PL Fendl. in Mem. Amer. Acad. 3, p. 23. 

 Malva sulphurea, Gillies, in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 149; Gay, Fl. Chil. 1, p. 295. 



Hab. Eio Negro, North Patagonia; very common. 



The specimens of this prostrate, silvery-lepidote species wholly 

 accord with those of Gillies from Mendoza, and of C. Gay from the 

 interior of Chili. There are one or two setaceous or subulate bractlets, 

 either alternate, near the apex of the pedicel, or subtending the base of 

 the calyx, like an involucel. The ovule is resupinate-suspended, 

 and the embryo conduplicate, with the radicle superior : it is therefore 

 a true Sida. The colour of the flower in the recent plant is not 

 recorded: it is probably sulphur-yellow, changing to dull red and 

 greenish in drying, as in the Chilian plant. The species must be 

 closely allied to Malva leprosa of Ortega, which is unknown to me, 

 and which is said to come from Cuba. 



2. Sida linifolia, Cav. 



Sida linifolia, Cav. Diss. 1, p. 14, t. 2, fig. Ij DC. Prodr. 1, p. 459; St. Hil. Fl. 

 Bras. Mer. 1, p. 180. 



Hab. Around Rio Janeiro, Brazil; where it is very abundant. 

 Ovolau, Feejee Islands. (Not mentioned in Dr. Pickering's notes; so 

 that we know not if it was thought to be indigenous. It is singular 

 that an American species, not very widely diffused, should -have been 

 conveyed to this little-visited group of islands.) 



3. Sida spinosa, Linn. 

 Hab. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. Callao, Peru. Tongatabu. 

 The specimens belong to the variety with broader leaves, charac- 



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