Malvaceae. 
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14. Sida periplocifolia? Periploca-leaved Broom- 
weed. 
Leaves cordate lanceolato-ovate tapering gradually 
towards the apex subentire glabrous above hoary and 
stellato-villous beneath, panicle terminal lax with its 
divisions filiform, carpels 5 subinflated one-seeded. 
Alcea populifolia, folio incano integro, Sloatie, I. 222. t. 139* 
f. 3. — Sida erecta, foliis integris subtus incanis, Browne, 280. — 
Sida periplocifolia, Swartz, Obs. 260. — Richard, Act. Soc. Hist. 
N. Par. p. 111.? 
1IAB. Common in the Lowlands. 
FL. After the Autumnal rains. 
Sufl'rutescent, erect, 3-4 feet in height : branches few, sub- 
simple, coloured, stellato-villous. Leaves attenuated at the 
apex which is obtuse, deep green and glabrous above, hoary 
and stellato-villous beneath, nerved. Panicle terminal, 1-2 feet 
in length, loose : common peduncle slender, terete, stellato- 
pubescent ; its divisions filiform, spreading, few-flowered : pe- 
dicels an inch and a half in length, jointed above the middle, 
delicately filiform, puberulous with very minute capitate hairs, 
in general two together, bearing a rather small yellow flower. 
Calyx externally purple and most minutely puberulous: divi- 
sions acute. Petals obovato-cuneiforin spreading. Filaments 
scarcely united into a column, subpolyadelphous. Styles 5, 
long, with capitate stigmata. Carpels 5, subinflated, triquet- 
rous, with the apex beaked : seeds solitary, angulose, with the 
angles puberulous. 
This species is not rare ; and is remarkable for the stamens 
being, as it were, broken up, and polyadelphous, the leaves en- 
tire or nearly so, the stem slender, and the divisions of the 
panicle capillary. This is decidedly the plant of Sloane. I 
have never, however, observed more than one seed in each 
carpel. A plant bearing the same specific designation, and a 
native of Ceylon, has the carpels 3-seeded. 
15. Sida peduncularis. Pur pie -flowered Broom-weed. 
Leaves cordate acuminate eremite green and vel- 
vety above hoary and tomentose beneath, peduncles 
axillary solitary longer than petioles, carpels 15 in- 
flated, nine-seeded, seeds small puberulous. 
Abutilon pedunculare, H. B. Sf Kunth, nov. gen. Amer. V. 
273 Sida peduncularis, Be Cand. Prod. I. 469. 
HAB. Common in the neighbourhood of Half-way Tree. 
FL. After the May and Autumnal rains. 
