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12. MALVACEiE. 
3. Modiola Moench. 
( Haynea Echb. not Sebum, or Willd.) 
tfl- M. caholiniana L. 
Hispid ; st. stiff and woody, prostrate, creeping ; 1. palmate 
5-7-lobed, lobes deeply toothed or cut, smooth above; pedic. 
axillary solitary erect longer than the petiole ; pet. entire ; fr. 
and cal. hirsute-strigose. — Malta caroliniana Linn. Herb. ! Cav. 
Diss. 2. 58. t. 15. f. 1; DC. i. 435; Spr. iii. 92.— Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1 ; r. Waste ground immediately below the terrace- 
wall of the Quinta do Valle near Funchal; formerly abundant, 
but the locality by late alterations and enclosures seems now to 
be destroyed. March, April. — An inconspicuous pi. with st. 
1-2 ft. long, creeping amongst grass and rooting for a part of 
their length, the ends only a little ascending, straight or regu- 
larly flexuose, thin and gr. but stiff and woody, the pi. however 
being not only decidedly annual but of very brief duration. 
Herbage bright gr. Lower 1. less, upper more divided, lower- 
most undivided crenate. Stip. ovate. Pedic. hispid. Br. or 
invol. sep. linear-lanceolate. Sep. rugosely or granulate-strigose, * 
in fr. erect not closed. FI. small but pretty, f in. in diam. ; 
pet. pale dull scarlet with a dark lunate mark at the base, their 
claw greenish y. Fr. blackish of 20-22 partially 2-celled carpels, 
the upper cell bursting widely open, the lower indehiscent. 
4. Sida L. 
tfl- S. carpinifolia L. til. 
A low shrub clothed with forked or cruciform adpressed hairs ; 
branches compressed or battened upwards ; 1. ovate or ovate- 
oblong unevenly and coarsely or somewhat doubly serrate ; stip. 
linear acuminate erect ; pedunc. axillary 1-4-tiowered mostly 
solitary very short much shorter than the petioles ; fr. hirsute 
at top, of 8-1 1 carpels each with 2 short horns at the outer 
upper angle of the back and a single longer recurved awn at the 
inner angle. — S. carpini folia L. til. Cav. Diss. 1. 21; 5. 274. 
t. 134. f. 1 ; and S. plamcaulis 1. 24. t. 3. f. 11. S. carpinifolia 
and S. carpinoules I)C. i. 461. S. carpinifolia WB. i. 37. Malta 
mbha&tata Hoiks List (not Cavanilles). — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1 ; r. 
Roadsides and waste ground amongst gardens and vineyards 
abundantly in the western suburbs of Funchal, beginning 
from the now desecrated and dismantled church and convent 
of S. Francisco ; in the garden of which it was found by Masson 
in 1776, and sent to 1 )r. Solander with the remark, “ called 
Tea by the inhabitants, and cultivated in their gardens” 
(Sol. MSS.) : the former part of the observation applying how- 
ever rather to the following sp. at the present day, and the latter 
