Igg PHANEROGAMIA. 



6. ABtJTILON MOLLISSIMUM, Don. 

 Sida mottissima, Cav. Diss. 2, p. 49, t. 14, f. 1 ; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 470. 



Hab. Yanga, near Lima, Peru. (Also gathered at Lima, by Mr. 

 Cuming.) 



7. Abutilon incanum, Don. 



Sida incana, Link. Emirn. Hort. Berol. 2, p. 204; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 468. 



Hab. Oahu, Sandwich Islands ; on Diamond Hill, and likewise on 

 the coast near Honolulu. (Also gathered by Chamisso, Macrae, and 

 Nuttall.) 



Plant low, a foot or so in height, clothed all over with a very fine 

 and close velvety and canescent tomentum. Stems slender, diffusely 

 branched from a woody or suffrutescent base, leafy. Stipules very 

 small, iiiiform, deciduous. Leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate or acute, 

 or those of the sterile branchlets rounded-cordate, finely serrate, 

 almost equally canescent both sides with the very soft tomentum ; 

 the cauline an inch to an inch and a half long, and on petioles of 

 fully half their length; those of the flowering branches smaller. 

 Peduncles mostly axillary and solitary, exceeding the leaves, about 

 an inch long, articulated near the apex. Flower 3 lines in length. 

 Calyx canescent, five-cleft to the middle, about half the length of the 

 yellow corolla, much shorter than the capsule, spreading in fruit. 

 Capsule cinereous-tomentose, short-oblong, pentacarpellary, strongly 

 five-lobed, truncate at the apex ; the carpels barely mucronulate at 

 their obtuse tips, dehiscent at the apex and down the dorsal suture, 

 three-seeded. Seeds globular, pubescent, superposed. 



This species much resembles the North American Abutilon Texense; 

 but the leaves are clothed with a still softer and whiter indumentum, 

 the flowers are smaller, the carpels are only five, and the seeds are 

 minutely downy. 



