MALVACE/E. 
I I 
pressed plane and stellariform above, many-celled ; 
cells 1 -seeded. 
Name , from a privative, and nodus a joint, the peduncles not 
being jointed as in Sida. 
1. Anoda hastata. Hastate-leaved Anoda. 
Lower leaves cordate acuminate 5-angled subden- 
tate obtuse, upper ones hastate acuminate subdentate 
at the base, peduncles axillary solitary length of the 
leaves. 
Cav. diss. I. 38. t. 11. f. 2. — Sida hastata, Willd. Sp. Ill* 
763. 
HAB. Neighbourhood of Bath, St Thomas in the East, and 
of the Botanic Garden, St Andrew’s. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
The leaves vary in shape. The flowers are usually blue, ap- 
proaching to purple, rarely white. — From the situation in which 
it grows, it is most probable an introduced plant. It is a 
native of Mexico, and of the neighbourhood of Lima. 
IX. Sida. Broom-weed. 
Calyx naked, 5-fid, generally angulated. Style 
multifid at its apex. Carpels capsular, 5-30, whorled 
round an axis, more or less united among themselves, 
1 -celled, one- or many-seeded, awned or awnless at 
the apex. 
Name , applied by Theophrastus to a Malvaceous plant, ac- 
cording to some ; or to the common Water-lily, according to 
Adanson. 
Sect. 1. Carpels 5-12, one-seeded , not inflated. 
* Peduncles shorter than the petioles , or of nearly 
the same lengthy leaves ovate or oblong. 
1. Sida Jamaicensis. Common Broom-weed. 
Leaves ovate serrated obtuse tomentose, peduncles 
axillary solitary 1 -flowered very short, carpels 5 two- 
horned. 
Sida humilior foliis ovatis serratis distiche sitis, Broicne, 
280.— S. Jamaicensis, Cav. diss. I. 17. t. 2. f. 5. — Swartz, Obs. 
258. 
HAB. Common on dry hot plains. 
FL. After rains. 
