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TH ALAMIFLORJE. 
the extremities. Leaves nerved, velutino-puberulous above, 
hoary and tomentose beneath with stellated hairs. Stipules 
subulate. Flowers of a tawny-yellow colour. Calyx 5-angular, 
tomentose. Petals rounded at the apex, emarginate, undulated. 
Styles 10, rarely 12, longer than the stamens, reflected: stig- 
mata capitate. Carpels 10, rarely 12, shortly bi-rostrate: seeds 
compressed, 3-gonal, black, glabrous. 
A common weed in dry lowland pastures, remarkable for its 
numerous orange coloured flowers, and its hoary woolly branches 
and leaves. 
9. Sida urens. Stinging Broom-weed. 
Leaves ovato-cordate acuminate serrato-dentate 
with blunt teeth hispid above hirsute beneath, dowers 
axillary and terminal crowded, carpels 5 awnless, stem 
and petioles hirsute with long stiff hairs. 
Sida urticata, Browne, 280. — S. urens, Swartz, Obs. 2G1 — 
Cav. diss. 1. 15. t. 2. f. 7. 
HAB. Common in fences and thickets. 
FL. Autumn. 
Suffrutioose : branches long, erect or subprocumbent, terete 
purpurascent on the side exposed to the sun, hirsute with long 
straight hairs, mixed with a minute stellated pubescence. Leaves 
ovate, cordate, acuminate with the apex blunt, bluntly serrato- 
dentate, hisped above, and hirsute beneath with stellated hairs, 
nerved : petiole about an inch in length. Stipules subulate. 
Peduncle one fourth of an inch in length, accompanied by 1-2 
short branchlets, each bearing about 5 flowers crowded together, 
and late in being developed. Calyx with the divisions acute 
and ciliated. Petals purpurascent at the claw, with the limb 
yellow, minutely ciliated. Column of the stamens minutely 
stellato-puberulous. Ovary 5-lobed : styles 5, spreading : stig- 
mata capitate, crimson. Carpels 5, awnless, stellato-pubescent 
towards the apex : seeds roundish, compressed, wrinkled, black. 
10. * Sida dumosa. Glabrous-leaved Broom-weed. 
Leaves cordate ovate acuminate serrated glabrous 
on both sides, peduncles many-flowered, carpels 5-(J 
subrotund scabrous with a very minute stellated 
pubescence . — Be Cand. 
Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 1209. 
HAB. Thickets. 
FL. ? 
Stem erect, smooth. Leaves serrulated, nervose, glabrous 
on both sides, 2 inches in length: petioles length of the leaves, 
