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HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 294; Safford 294. 
McGregor 359, 360, G. E. S. U35, single and double flowers. 
A native of tropical Asia, now cultivated in all warm countries. 
HIBISCUS TILIACEUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 694. 
Pariti tiliaceum A. St. Hil. FI. Bras. Mer. 1 (1825) 256; Safford 347, 
pi. 61. 
McGregor i66, G. E. S. 332, 38U, locally known as pago. 
Along the seashore in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
MALACHRA Linnaeus 
MALACHRA CAPITATA Linn. Syst. ed. 12 (1767) 458. 
G. E. S. 28, locally known as pagago. 
A native of tropical America, now in all tropical countries. 
MALACHRA FASCIATA Jacq. Coll. 2 (1797) 352. 
G. E. S. 15 4, along small streams. 
A native of tropical America, now very common in the Philippines. The 
Guam form is identical with the common Philippine Malachra fascicata 
var. lineariloba (Turcz.) Giirke. 
SI DA Linnaeus 
SI DA ACUTA Burm. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 147; Safford 374. 
G. E. S. 155, locally known as escobilla adumelon, the typical form, 
G. E. S. 306, Thompson 25, locally known as escobilla papagu, atypic. 
All tropical countries, where native uncertain. 
The specimens last cited, with the native name escobilla papagu represent 
a form somewhat different from typical Sida acuta Burm. f. Mr. E. G. 
Baker of the British Museum has kindly examined a duplicate of one of the 
specimens and informs me that in his opinion it is only a form of Sida 
carpinifolia L. ( =Sida acuta Burm. f.). 
SIDA GLOMERATA Cav. Diss. 1 (1785) 18, t. 2, f. 6; Safford 374. 
Admitted on the authority of Safford who quotes Gaudichaud. It is 
strongly suspected, from the native name cited by Gaudichaud, escobilla 
papagu, that the form enumerated by him as Sida glomerata Cav., is really 
the form that I have above referred to Sida acuta Burm. f., and not Cava- 
nilles’ species. 
SIDA RHOMBI FOLIA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 684; Safford 375. 
G. E. S. 156, 200, locally known as escobilla dalili and as escobilla apaca. 
All tropical countries, where native uncertain. 
THESPESIA Solander 
THESPESIA POPULNEA (Linn.) Soland. ex Corr. in Ann. Mus. Paris 9 
(1807) 290, t. 8, f. 2; Safford 388. 
Hibiscus populneus Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 694. 
Mrs. Clemens s. n., G. E. S. 132, 442 , locally known as banalo, also its 
most common Philippine name. 
Widely distributed in the tropics along the seashore. 
