Suffrutieose, annual, erect, 2—3 feet in height: branches few, 
simple, terete, pilose with long hairs intermixed with a glaudu- 
loso-capitate pubescence. Leaves cordate, acuminate, crenated, 
nerved, veined, green and velvety with stellated hairs above, 
hoary and stellato-tomentose beneath : petiole terete, elongated, 
pilose like the branches. Stipules | an inch in length, subulate, 
hairy, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, rather longer 
than the petioles, articulated below the flower, hairy like the 
branches. Flowers large, showy, of a dirty crimson colour, 
opening about 9 o’clock in the morning, and closing about 4 
o’clock in the afternoon. Calyx 5-fid below the middle : divi- 
sions acuminate, nerved. Petals twice the length of the calyx, 
veined, minutely ciliated. Stamens numerous. Styles 15, 
spreading, tinged with purple, length of the stamens : stigmata 
capitate. Carpels 15, inflated, shortly beaked at the outer 
angle, densely hirsute with greenish yellow hairs, 9-seeded. 
This is a rather beautiful species. It was discovered by 
Humboldt and his companions in shady situations by the banks 
of the Amazon. 
16. * Sicla Americana. American Broom-weed. 
Leaves cordate oblong undivided tomentose, pe- 
duncles shorter than the leaf, carpels 12 tomentose, 
acuminate length of the calyx. 
Willd. Sp. III. 750. — De Cand. Prod. 470. 
HAB. Jamaica. 
FL. ? 
Leaves twice as long as they are broad, very tomentose, ser- 
rated, double the length of the petioles. Calyx tomentose. 
Carpels 12, size of those of S. abutilon, terminating, at the 
outer angle, in a lanceolate point, as long as the carpel itself. 
17- Sida abutiloides. Savannah Broom-weed. 
Leaves cordate acuminate bluntly toothed villous 
above, hoary viscid and tomentose beneath, peduncles 
axillary solitary scarcely longer than the petiole, car- 
pels 10 acuminate length of the calyx 3-seeded. 
Lavatera Americana, Swartz , Obs. 263. — Sida abutiloides, 
De Cand. Prod. I. 470. 
HAB. Common in dry Savannahs and thickets on the south 
side of the Island. 
FL. January. 
Suffrutieose, erect, about 3 feet high : branches compressed 
at their extremities, subflexuose, hispido-tomentose, with stel- 
lated hairs. Leaves ovate, cordate, acuminate, dentate, nerved, 
