MALVACEAE. 101 



12, SlDA FALLAX, Walp. 



S. tomentosa, frutescens; caule ramoso; foliis cordato-ovatis seu ovato- 

 rotundis canescenti-velutims recte penninerviis creberrime serrato- 

 crenatis; pedunculis axillaribus unifhris folia subaequantibus vel 

 superantibus ; calycis lobis ovatis acutis; coeds 6-9 (12 ex Walp.) 

 muticis glabellas apice obtuso rima brevi dehiscentibus. 



Sida rotundifolia, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 79, non Cav. 



Var. a. foliis (scepe parvulis) utrinque velutino-tomentosis subplicatis. 



Sidafallax, Walp. Eel. Meyen. p. 306. 

 Anoda ovata, Meyen. Riese, 2, p. 139. 



Var. p. foliis supra minus velutinis ant subgldbratis obtusis acutis vel 

 subacuminatis. 



Hab. Oahu, Sandwich Islands ; on Diamond Hill, &c, near Hono- 

 lulu (var. a.) Also gathered on Maiden Island by Macrae. — The 

 var. p. also from Oahu ; and the Coral Islands : namely, Wake's Island, 

 Gardner's Island, and Birney's Island. Also gathered on Oahu by 

 Lay and Collie, Meyen, Nuttall, Gaudichaud, &c. 



Stem more or less shrubby, at least at the base, erect, branching, 

 apparently 2 or 3 feet high ; the branches, like the rest of the plant, 

 tomentose with a fine and close velvety pubescence. Leaves variable 

 in form, ovate, roundish-ovate or oblong-ovate, with a rounded and 

 usually cordate base (the sinus small and narrow), either very obtuse, 

 acute, or somewhat acuminate, equally velvety-tomentose and canescent 

 on both sides, or, in var. /3. less downy and greener, or even almost 

 glabrate, above, closely crenate-toothed with rather fine and unequal 

 obtuse teeth, 6 to 18 and even 24 lines long, and on petioles of half 

 or a third the length of the blade, rather strongly pinnately-veined 

 with 8 to 11 pairs of straight veins on each side : in var. a. these are 

 so strong that the leaf appears somewhat plicate. Stipules setaceous. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, or two or three from the same axil, fili- 

 form, equalling or the upper exceeding the leaves in length, arti- 



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