MAI.VACI'.jE. 
83 
pubescent. Panicle terminal. Flowers numerous, crowded, 
shortly pedicelled, of moderate size, yellow. Calyx 5-agonal 
at the base, pubescent. Styles 5-6. Carpels 1 -seeded. — 
Swartz. 
1 1 . Sida capillaris. Capillary paniclecl Broom-weed. 
Leaves ovate acuminate, rarely subcordate, more 
usually rounded at the base dentato-serrate hoary 
stellato-pilose above stellato-tomentose beneath, stipules 
setaceous, peduncles capillary panicled or simple, 
carpels 5 shortly bi-rostrate. 
Sida foliis cordato-acuminatis, pedunculis longis tenuissimis 
c a pi ll a ribns alaribus, inferioribus simplicibus, superioribus 
ramosis, Browne , 280. — S. paniculata, Swartz , Obs. 259. — 
Cav. diss. I. 16. t. 12. f. 5 — S. atro sanguinea, Jacq. 1c. rar. I. 
t. 136 — S. capillaris, Cav. diss. I. 10. t. 1. f. 7. 
HAB. Common, in dry gravelly situations. 
FJj. August — November. 
Suffrutioose erect about 3 feet high : branches straight, 
slightly compressed towards their extremities, stellato-hirsute 
approaching to tomentose. Leaves attenuato-acuminate, un- 
equally serrato-dentate, nerved, about 2 inches long, and nearly 
1 broad : petioles short, tomentose. Stipules longer than the 
petiole, setaceous. Panicles axillary and subterminal: divisions 
finely capillary : pedicels an inch and a half in length, glabrous, 
jointed about 3 lines from the flower, coloured, minutely puberu- 
lous, incrassated below the calyx.- Flowers small, of a crimson 
colour. Calyx externally pubernlous. Petals spreading, oblong, 
repand, glabrous. Stamens 15: column crimson, minutely 
stellato-pubernlons : anthers yellow. Styles 5, longer than the 
filaments, spreading : stigmata minutely papillose. Carpels 5, 
minutely stellato-puberulous. 
In the specimens I have met with, it is only the leaves 
at the bottom of the stem that are subcordate. I have adopted 
the specific designation of Cavanilles, considering it more dis- 
tinctive This plant is remarkable for its delicate hair-like 
peduncles, and its small crimson flowers. I have met with 
specimens, in which the peduncles were 2-3 together, simple, 
and axillary. 
12. Sida nervosa. Clammy Broom-weed. 
Leaves cordate acuminate dentate villous with 
stellated hairs, stem and branches villous with a viscid 
capitato-glandulose pubescence, peduncles panicled, 
calyces nervose, carpels 5 bi-rostrate. 
Berte.ro , De Cand. Prod . I. 465. 
