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sides, the lower surface whitened and conspicuously pinnately veined, 

 the straight veins 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib. Stipules seta- 

 ceous. Peduncles axillary, solitary or in pairs, one-flowered or some- 

 times 2-floivered, 6 to 10 lines long, articulated near the apex. Flowers 

 yellow, nearly as large as in the foregoing species. Calyx tomentose, 

 five-cleft to the middle ; the lobes ovate and obtuse or obtusish. Ovary 

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

 pubendent; the carpels usually 8, a line and a half long, somewhat 

 wrinkled, bidentate with two short teeth at the apex, opening between 

 the teeth. Seed and embryo as in the genus. 



This species appears to be sufficiently distinct from both the pre- 

 ceding and the following. I have dedicated it to the memory of its 

 discoverer, the late Keverend John Diell, formerly Chaplain at Hono- 

 lulu. A specimen given by him to M. Gaudichaud, is preserved in 

 the herbarium of the Garden of Plants at Paris. 



14. Sida Sertum, Mitt. ined. 



S, subcanescens ; caule frutescente ramoso; ramis confertis ; foliis ovali~ 

 bus crenulatis utrinque rotundatis basi saepius subcordatis longius 

 petiolatis subtus canescentibus supra glabratis ; peduncidis axillaribus 

 tinifloris folia wquantibus; calycis lohis obtusissimis ; coccis 8-9 gla* 

 bellis breviter birostratis. 



Sida Sertum, Nutt. ined. in Herb, Hook. 



S. rotundifolia, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 79, var. 



Hab. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on mountains behind Honolulu, 

 (Also gathered by Lay and Collie, Nuttall, Diell, &c.) 



Apparently a low suffruticose species, with crowded and bushy 

 branches; which, with the petioles, peduncles, calyx, &c, are barely 

 canescent with a minute pubescence. Leaves an inch to an inch and 

 a half long, oval, or subovate-oblong, very obtuse and rounded at both 

 ends, usually more or less subcordate at the base, finely crenulate, 

 pinnately veined, but less conspicuously so than in the foregoing 

 species, canescent underneath with a minute and very close pubescence, 

 glabrous or glabrate above ; the petioles two-thirds the length of the 



