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2 to 3 feet high, the hairs on the branches and petioles long and spread- 
ing. Leaves oblong- cord ate, obtuse, rarely acute, crenate ; hoth surfaces, 
but especially the pale lower surface, softy hairy ; length 125 to 2 in., 
breadth *8 to 1*25: petiole slightly longer than the blade. Stipule* 
linear, less than half the* length of the petiole. Flowers *G in. in diam., 
axillary, solitary; corolla yellow; peduncle* jointed near the apt-x, 
varying in length, the lower longer, the upper shorter, than the petioles. 
Carpels boldly 3-anglod, reticulate, sub-glabrous, crowned by 2 strong, 
divergent, retro-hispid awna. DC. Prod i. 464, Roxb. Fl. Ind., iii. 
177; Wall. Cat 1849; W. & A. Prod. i. 58; Thwaites Entim. 28. 
Dala. & Gibs. Fl. Bombay, 17 ; Mast, in Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 32 4, and 
in Oliver's Fl. Tj op. Afr i. 181; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 14«>. 8. 
herhitcm, Omt. Dins, i. 19, t. 13, f . 1 ; DC. Prodr. i. 463. mining, 
Cav. Diss. i. 19, t. 3. f. 1. & rotundifulia, Cav. Diss, i 20, t. 3, f. 6, and 
Diss. vi. t. 194, f. 2 ; Wall. Cat. 1849, D ; DC. Prodr. i. 464. 8. althai- 
folia, Swartz, Guill. & Per. Fl. Soneg. i. 73.— Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 54. 
In Malacca: and probably in all the Provinces as a weed. Distrib. 
The Tropics generally, 
2. Abuitlon, Gaertn. 
Herbs or nndershrnhs more or h-*z covered with down. r,»am.< 
angled or palruatoly-lobed. Injhrescence axillary or terminal. Bmcteofas 
0. Calyx of 5 valvate Repals, tabular below. Corolla of 5 petals, free 
above, connate below and adnato to the tube of the stamens. Stamiimf- 
tube divided at the apex into numerous filaments. Carpels 5-8. Stylos 
as many as the carpels. Ripe carpels separating from the axis, awned or 
not, 1- or more-seeded. Seeds rcniform, Distrib. About 70 species, all 
tropical or subtropical. 
A. indicum, G. Don. Gou. Syst. i. 504. An annual or perennial 
nndershrub. Leaves broadly cordate, irregularly and coarsely toothed 
or sub-entire, pale and minutely pubescent on both surfaces, often 
with a few longer hairs intermixed, length 1 to 2 in., breadth. 1 t<i 2 
in. ; petiole usually longer than the blade. Floioers I iu. in diam, axil- 
lary, solitary, the peduncles longer thau the petioles, jointed near the 
top; corolla yellow. Sepals ovate, acute, shorter than the spreading 
petals. Carpels 15 to 20, longer than the calyx, truncate or with short 
spreading awns, tomeutose at first, ultimately sub-glabrous. Seeds 
dark brown, minutely stellate-hairy. Mast, in Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 
326 ; A, asiaticum t W. & A. Prodr. i. 56, not Sida asiatica, Linn. ; W, 
& A. Prodr. i. 56 ; Wight Ic. t. 12 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. IS j 
Thwaites Enum. 27; Mast, iu Oliv. Fl. Trop, Afr. i. J86; Miq. Fl. lud. 
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