Bat. i. pt. 2, 146. Sida indica, L. j DC. Prodr. i. 471 ; Cav. Diss. i. p. 
33, t. 7, f.10; Roxb. PI. Ind. iii. L79 ; Wall. Cat. 1859, 1, 2, D. F. 
Svla pnpvlifolia, W. & A. I.e. A. populifolia, G. Don. I.e. Sida popidi- 
folia, DC. Prod. i. 470; Cav. Diss. i. t. 7, fig. 9 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 179; 
Bi Bijdr. 79. S. Beloere, L'Her. Stirp. i. 130. 5. Bteroomischos, Cav. 
Diss. ii. 55 and v. p. 275, t. 128. 
Singapore, Selangore and probably in all the other proviuces. 
A weed. 
3. Urrka, Linn. 
Herbs or underHhrnbs, more or less covered with rigid stellato hairs. 
Leaves angled or lobed. Flowers clustered. Bracteoles 5, adnate to the 
5-cleft calyx, sometimes coherent at the base into a cup. Petals 5, 
often tomontoso at the back, free above, connate below and united to 
the base of the tube of the stamens. Staminal-iube truncate or minute- 
ly toothed. Anthers nearly sessile. Ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled, 
opposite the petals; stigmatic branches 10; stigmas capitate. Ripe 
carpels covered with hooked bristles or smooth, indehiscent, separating 
from the axis when ripe. Seed ascending; cotyledons bent and folded ; 
radicle inferior. Distrib. Species 4-5, natives of tropical and sub- 
tropical countries, 2 only being confined to Asia. 
U. lobata, Linn. Spec. 974. A herbaceous undershrub 1 to 3 feet 
high, more or less hairy. Leaves very variable ; the lower rotund to 
reniform, more or less cordate at the base, the apex usually acute, edges 
with 5 to 7 shallow lobes or sub-entire, 5 to 7-nerved ; length 1 to 2 in., 
breadth I to 2 5 in. ; upper leaves smaller aud sometimes ovate to 
linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved. Petiole shorter thau the blade ; bracteoles 
oblong- lanceolate, as long as the sepals. Oorolla pink, *5 to 1 in. in 
diam. Carpels tomentose, and with many smooth hooked spines. Mast, 
in Hook. fii. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 329; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 149; Cav, 
Diss. iv. p. 336, t. 185, fig. 1 ; Miq. PI. Jungh. 283 ; DC. Prodr. i. 441 ; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind, iii. 182; W. & A. Prodr. i. 56; Wall. Cat. 1928; Dalz. 
& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 18; Thwaites Ennm. 25; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 
148. U. can*., Wall. Cat. 1930 B. U. pahnata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii 182. 
U. tomentosa, Bl. Bijdr. G5. 
All the Provinces : a weed. Distrib. The tropics genernlly. 
Var. 1. sinuata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I.e. ; leaves deeply 5-lobed, the 
lobes narrowed at Hie base, serrate, often pinnatifid, bracteoles linear; 
Uowers often smaller thau in the typical plant. U. sinuata, Linn. ; DC. 
Prodr. i. 441 ; Roxb. Horfc. Beng. 50; Fl. Ind. iii, 182; Wall. Cat. 1933 
B.; W. & A, Prodr. i. 46 ; Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 329; Thwaites Enuui. 
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