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culated towards the apex, one-floivered. Calyx tomentose like the 

 leaves, five-cleft nearly to the middle, the lobes ovate or triangular, 

 acute or somewhat acuminate. Petals yellow, obovate, half an inch 

 in length, about a third longer than the calyx. Ovary minutely 

 pubescent. Fruit shorter than the tube of the calyx, subglobose, 

 nearly glabrous; the carpels 6 to 9, or 12 (according to Walpers, and 

 Dr. Pickering's notes), at length falling away separately, a line and a 

 half in length, slightly wrinkled or reticulated, obtuse and poiiitless, 

 dehiscent by a short transverse chink at the narrowed apex. Seed 

 and embryo of the genus. 



A variable species, of which we have specimens well agreeing with 

 Walpers' character (except that the leaves are almost always a little 

 cordate, and I have not noticed so many as 12 carpels), and others 

 which differ widely from it in the size of the leaves, &c. The Sand- 

 wich Island plant cannot be separated from that of the Coral Islands, 

 I am not aware that the latter has been anywhere described.* 



13. Sida Diellii, Sp. Nov. 



S, cano-tomentosa ; caule basi suffrutescente? rarnoso; foliis oblongo-ovatis 

 subacutis basi rotundatis seu leviter subcordatis crenato-serratis velu- 

 tinis subtus incanis recte penninerviis ; pedunculis axillaribus 1-2- 

 floiis folia suboequantibus ; calycis lobis ovatis obtusiusculis ; coeds 8 

 puberidis apice apiculato-bidentatis. 



Hab. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; on the coast southwest of the 

 crater Lua Pele. (Port Byron, Kev. J. Diell.) 



Plant apparently 2 or 3 feet high, with slender and spreading 

 branches (the base probably a little woody), softly tonientose-canescent 

 throughout; the branchlets and peduncles also beset with some fine 

 villous hairs. Leaves (the lower cauline ones wanting) 6 to 14 lines 

 long, on rather long petioles, oblong-ovate, acutish or obtuse, rounded or 

 very slightly cordate at the base, finely crenate-toothed, velvety both 



* What is "Sida maura, "Link, Enuni. 2, p. 204/' Endl. Benierk. Fl. Sudseeins. 

 in Ann. Wien. Mus. 1, p. 182? "Ins. Mariannae, Cham." There is no species under 

 this name in the work referred to. 



