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12. MALVACEAE. 
long, A— i in. broad, wedgeshaped and entire towards the base. 
FI. small buff or ochre-y. Fed. very variable in length but 
mostly rather shorter than the 1. though sometimes longer espe- 
cially in luxuriant pi. Fr. small hard and dry. Carpels mostly 
10, and by far most commonly 1 -rostrate ; rarely and perhaps 
only in pi. growing in poor scanty soil and in the hot dry 
summer or aut. months birostrate. In the summer of 1845 the 
carpels of all the pi. in the paths or walks of my own vine- 
yard, which had always borne before, as in subsequent years 
they again bore, l-rostrate carpels, produced almost uniformly 
birostrate carpels. Thus a and /3 are rather two forms or states 
than properly varieties. In Madeira, however (as also in the 
Canaries apparently from Webb’s account), a is assuredly the 
normal state : /3 occurring only here and there occasionally. 
This is the pi. generally called u Cha Ingleza ” or English 
Tea-pl. by the Portuguese at present. It is however rarely if 
ever used in any way. 
5. Abtjtilon Gaertn. 
ttl. A. indicum (L.) Wight and Arn. 
Inclining to shrubby, all over more or less hoary with very 
short and close velvety starry pubescence ; 1. soft finely velvety 
heartshaped ovate-lanceolate or subobtuse, somewhat lobed 
irregularly and unequally repand-crenate ; stip. linear reflexed ; 
ped. erect mostly longer than the petioles jointed near the fl. ; 
sep. ovate acute; cor. spreading; fr. large of 12-15 scabrous 
stellately-hispid acute not awned carpels about the length of the 
sep. — Abutilon indicum Wight and Am. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Or. 
i. 50. Sida indica (L.) and S. populifolia (Lam.) DC. i. 471 
and 470; Spr. iii. 119. 
(3. populifolia ; 1. more or less acuminate ; W. and A. 1. c. ; 
8. populifolia (Lam.) Cav. Diss. 1. 52. t. 7. f. 9; 5. 275. t. 128. 
f. 2 ; I)C. 1. c. ; Spr. 1. c. S. Abutilon IIoll’s List (not Linn.). — 
- s !] r - ann. rarely per. Mad. reg. 1 ; r. Waste ground amongst 
vineyards in the neighbourhood of Funchal occasionally, espe- 
cially about the Quinta do Valle. July-Nov. — St. erect; branches 
1-3 ft. long straight and stiff but weak and slender and decumbent 
or spreading horizontally and trailing, often dusky purplish or 
violet, hard and woody although the pi. is of scarcely ever more 
than ann. or bien. duration. L. poplar-like, 1-2 in. long, blunt 
at the tip, pale gr. inclining more or less to grey or hoary. Fl. 
rather large and handsome, the size of a shilling, buff or ochre-y. 
Fr. large and handsome from the neat regular arrangement of 
the dry papery or bladdery carpels. Pedunc. very variable in 
length, often not much longer but never shorter than the petioles. 
