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THAI, AMI FLO K M. 
PIAB. Common. 
FL. Autumn. 
Suffruticose, erect, 3-4 feet high, much branched, terete, 
viscid to the touch, and somewhat villous with capitate hairs. 
Leaves 4-6 inches long, pubescent above, hoary and villous 
with stellated hairs beneath, 3-nerved, besides a marginal pair, 
veined: petiole of the same length as theleaf, obscurely channelled, 
slightly villous with a capitato-glandulose pubescence. Stipules 
small, setaceous, ciliated. Peduncles axillary and terminal, 
panicled and manv-flowered ; or there is in the axil of the leaf 
a one-flowered peduncle about an inch in length and jointed 
above the middle, accompanied by a short branclilet, bearing 
about 5 pedicelled flowers. Flowers yellow. Calyx prominently 
nerved, pubescent with capitato-glandulose hairs, ciliated ; 
segments acuminate. Petals obcordate, ciliated with minute 
capitate hairs, but otherwise glabrous. Stamens about 16. 
Styles 5, blood-coloured, with capitate stigmata. Carpels 5, 
rostrate; the beaks short, subulate, hispid. Seeds solitary, ovoid, 
with a earuncuhited apicula. 
A very common plant. The leaves are occasionally variegated 
with yellow. 
Sect. 2. Carpels one- or many-seeded , inflated. 
13. Sida viscosa. Viscid Broom-weed. 
Leaves ovato-cordate acuminate dentate viscoso- 
tomentose, peduncles axillary shorter than the petiole, 
Althaea populi folio villoso, Sloane, I. 222. t. 139. f. 4. — 
Sida viscosa seu villosa, Browne , 280. — S. Viscosa, Swartz , 
Obs 239. 
HAB. Savannahs. Common in Salt-Ponds. 
FL. November. 
Suffruticose, erect, 2-4 feet in height : branches suberect, 
terete, stellato-tomentose with the longer hairs tipt with a viscid 
transparent globule. Leaves attenuato-acuminate, viscid, stel- 
lato-villous. Stipules subulate. Peduncles axillary, subsoli- 
tary, short, scarcely half an inch in length, villous. Flowers 
yellow. Calyx externally stellato- villous and viscid with pel- 
lucid shining globules ; segments lanceolate, attenuato-mucro- 
nate. Petals subovato-rotund, repand at their extremity, glab- 
rous. Stamens numerous. Styles 5, erect, rather longer than 
the stamens : stigmata obtuse. Carpels 5, globose, compressed, 
bi-rostrate, stellato-villous, subinflated, 1 -seeded : seed globose, 
slightly compressed. 
This is the plant described and figured by Sloane. According 
to him the carpels are 6 ; whereas Swartz gives 7 as their 
number. 
