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and tender shoots, are made use of as substitutes for soap. 
Rubbed up with water, they form a lather, which may be 
employed in shaving, when the skin is in an irritable state, not 
admitting of the use of soap. 
3. * Sicla ciliaris. Procumbent Broom-weed. 
Leaves oblongo-elliptic refuse serrato-dentate to- 
wards the apex, peduncles axillary subterminal soli- 
tary very short, stipules of the same length or longer 
than the petiole ciliated, carpels 7 muricated shortly 
hi rostrate. 
Malva minor supina, flore coccineo, seminibus asperis, 
Sloane, J. 217. t. 137. f. 2. — Malva minima supina, JBroume, 
282 Sida ciliaris, Cav. diss. I. t. 3. f. 9. — Swartz, Ohs. 257. 
— De Cand. Prod. I. 461. 
HAB. Common in dry waste places, and pastures. 
FL. July — December, after rains. 
Suffruticose, procumbent at the base, terete, hirsute with op- 
pressed stellated hairs. Leaves at the ends of the branchlets, 
elliptic, approaching to oblong, retusc, serrato-dentate and cili- 
ated towards the apex, glabrous above, stellato-hispid beneath, 
scarcely more than half an inch in length : petiole half the 
length of the leaf. Stipules setaceous, ciliated, rather longer 
than the petiole. Flowers small, red, shortly peduncled, axil- 
lary, solitary. Calyx 5-partite : segments ciliated. Petals en- 
tire. Anthers 10. Style 7-partite, longer than the stamens. 
Carpels 7, muricated, shortly birostrate at the apex. 
* * Peduncles elongated and distinctly jointed, leaves 
oblong. 
4. Sida minor. Lesser Broom-weed. 
Leaves oblong and rounded at the base, sometimes 
ovate and subcordate, serrated subglabrous above stel- 
lato-puberulous beneath, peduncles axillary solitary 1- 
flowered rather longer than the petiole jointed, car- 
pels 5 shortly bicuspidate. 
HAB. Dry situations, Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. July — November. 
Suffruticose, about 8 inches in height : branches compressed, 
very minutely stellato-puberulous. Leaves, in old plants, ovate 
and subcordate, in young ones, oblong and rounded at the base, 
crenato-serrated, and incano-puberulous above, incano-puberu- 
lous with stellated hairs beneath. Stipules half the length of 
the petiole, setaceous, ciliated. Peduncle jointed above the 
