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blade. Stipules setaceous. Peduncles axillary and usually solitary, 

 capillary, one to two inches long, one-flowered. Calyx five-cleft 

 nearly to the middle; the lobes broadly ovate, very obtuse. Petals 

 yellow, nearly twice the length of the calyx, 5 or 6 lines long. Car- 

 pels about 8 in number, nearly glabrous, abruptly tipped with two 

 subulate-aristiform beaks, which are shorter than the cell, and minutely 

 hairy. 



I am not certain whether Mr. Nuttall's specimens in the Hookerian 

 herbarium under this name do not include some of Sida fallax. 

 Hooker and Arnott have considered them all as forms of one poly- 

 morphous species. S. Meyeniana is distinguished by the sharply 

 toothed leaves of the same colour both sides, the sharply acuminate 

 sepals, and the long-beaked carpels. 



15. Sida Meyeniana, Walp. 



Sida Meyeniana, Walp. Rel. Meyen. p. 307, & Repert. 1, p. 94. 

 S. ulmifolia, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 79, non Cav. 



Hab. Oahu, near Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. (Also gathered by 

 Lay & Collie, Macrae, Meyen, Gaudichaud, Barclay, &c.) 



A suffruticose species, glabrous, or the branchlets and leaves when 

 young furfuraceous or scurfy with a sparse stellate pubescence. Sti- 

 pules setaceous, minutely hairy. Leaves membranaceous, green and 

 of nearly the same hue both sides, ovate, oblong-ovate, or rotund- 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse, rounded or slightly subcor- 

 date at the base, sharply serrate, one to two inches long, or those of 

 the branchlets smaller. Peduncles axillary, usually solitary, shorter 

 than the leaves, or nearly equalling them in length. Calyx glabrous; 

 the lobes triangular-ovate, sharply acuminate, about half the length 

 of the oblique and yellow petals. Carpels 5 to 9, nearly glabrous, 

 two-beaked ; the beaks subulate-awned, pubescent, as long as the cell 

 or longer. 



Walpers compares this well-marked species with Sida rhombifolia, 

 to which it bears no particular resemblance. 



