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THALAMIFI.OH/E. 
Suffruticose, with branches spreading, terete, hirsute with 
stellated hairs. Leaves distichal, ovate, obtuse, serrated, with 
the teeth subaristate, nerved, tomentose with stellated hairs, 
ciliated, hoary beneath : petiole one-fourth of an inch in length, 
terete, tomentose. Stipules setaceous, length of the petiole. 
Petiole scarcely half the length of the petiole, accompanied by 
a short flowering branchlet. Bracteas setaceous. Calyx 5-ago- 
nal, nerved, externally stellato-tomentose ; divisions acuminate. 
Petals obliquely cordate, white, or of a pale buff colour. Ovary 
5-agonal : styles 5, reflex : stigmata capitate. Carpels 5, bi- 
rostrate. 
This plant has some resemblance to the following species ; 
but may readily be distinguished by its growing in low warm 
situations, by being tomentose, by the flowers being nearly 
white, and by the carpels being only 5 in number. 
2. Sitla trivialis. Way-aide Broom-weed. 
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Leaves ovato-lanceolate acute dentato-serrated mi- 
nutely stellato-puberulous, peduncles axillary solitary 
1 -flowered scarcely longer than the petiole, carpels 
8-10 shortly bi-cuspidate. 
Malva erecta minor carpinii folio, flore luteo, seminibus sin- 
gulis simplici aculeo-longiori donatis, Sloane, I. 218. — Sida 
Balbisiana, Bertero, De Cand. Prod. I. 460. 
HAB. Common by the roadsides and in ditches. 
FL. Autumn. 
Suffruticose, about a foot in height : branches alternate, dis- 
tichal, terete, stellato-pubescent. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, 
acute, rounded and entire at the base, the rest of the margin 
dentato-serrated, subglabrous above, minutely stellato-puberu- 
lous beneath, nerved : petiole short. Stipules nearly twice the 
length of the leaf, lanceolate, 3-nerved, (filiated. Peduncles the 
third of an inch in length, scarcely longer than the petiole, axil- 
lary, solitary, 1 -flowered. Flowers orange-yellow, size of a 
shilling. Calycine segments ciliated. Petals obliquely obcor- 
date. Column of the filaments stellato-puberulous. Ovary 
spherical, truncated : styles 10 : stigmata obtuse. Carpels us- 
ually 10, bicuspid.ate at the'inner and upper angle : seed soli- 
tary. 
Notwithstanding some unimportant points of difference, this 
plant is evidently the same with that found by Bertero at Porto- 
Ricco, and to which he gave the name of S. Balhisiana. The 
leaves vary in being more or less elongated, and in being either 
rounded or approaching to acute at the base. It is very com- 
mon in the Port-Royal mountains. The branches of this, as 
well as of some of the other species, are employed, tied toge- 
ther in a bundle, as a broom by the Negroes. The leaves also 
