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hirsute with spreading hairs, about 1.5 cm long. Capsules ovoid 
to subellipsoid, obtuse, about 3 cm long and 2 cm in diameter, 
externally densely hirsute with stiff, spreading, pale hairs. 
Seeds not at all musky. 
Luzon, Cagayan Province, Bolster 122, July, 1905, For. Bur. 16U93 
Bacani, January, 1909, Bur. Sci. 7839 Ramos, April, 1909: Lepanto District, 
near Cervantes, Merrill U80, November, 1905; Bontoc Subprovince, Vano- 
verbergh 879, 1221 (type), October and May, 1911. 
This species grows in open grasslands, and is characterized by its 
thickened, woody, underg'round base; it is manifestly a perennial plant, 
differing in this character from A. moschatus to which it is evidently allied. 
It is very closely allied to Abelmoschus sagittifolius Kurz, which Hoch- 
reutiner has reduced to A. abelmoschus, but has smaller flowers which are 
yellow, not at all pink or red, and differently shaped leaves. 
HIBISCUS Linnaeus 
HIBISCUS ViTIPOUUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 696; Mast, in Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 338. 
Luzon, Union Province, San Fernando, R. Lete 117, HU, July and 
August, 1916, locally known as mapua. 
Not previously reported from the Philippines; tropical Africa and 
Asia to tropical Australia. 
Si DA Linnaeus 
SIDA LONGISTIPULA sp. nov. 
Herba annua, prostrata, caulis numerosis, usque ad 20 cm 
longis, simplex vel rariter ramosis, ciliato-pilosis ; foliis oblongis, 
usque ad 1.8 cm longis, basi cordatis, 3-nerviis, apice obtusis, in 
i vel j superiore parte prominente serratis ; stipulis linearis vel 
lineari-spatulatis, circiter 1 cm longis; floribus breviter pedicel- 
latis, axillaribus, plerumque ad apicem ramulorum confertis; 
calycibus teretibus, haud angulatis vel costatis, 5-lobatis, extus 
pubescentibus pilosisque, 6 ad 7 mm longis; carpellis 5 ad 8, 
prominente muricatis, facies interioribus prominente reticulatis, 
brevissime biaristatis. 
An annual herb, the stems numerous, tufted from the apex 
of the stout perpendicular root, prostrate, spreading, all parts 
more or less pubescent with sparingly stellate, long, white ciliate- 
pilose hairs, the stems up to 20 cm in length, simple, rarely 
branched. Leaves oblong, 1 to 1.8 cm long, 3 to 7 cm wide, 
long petioled, base cordate, 3-nerved, apex obtuse, in the upper 
one-half or one-third prominently serrate, the upper surface 
glabrous, the lower more or less stellate-pilose, the margins 
sparingly ciliate ; petioles up to 1 cm in length, sparingly ciliate- 
pilose; stipules linear or linear-spatulate, about 1 cm long. 
Flowers mostly crowded at the apices of the stems, forming a 
