1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 43 
Bat. i. pt. 2, 146. Sida indica, L. ; DO. Prodr. i. 471 ;'Cav. Diss. i. p. 
33, t. 7, f. 10; Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 179; Wall. Cat. 1859, 1, 2, D. P. 
Sida populifolia, W - . & A. l.c. A. populifolia, G. Don. l.o. Sida populi- 
folia, DC. Prod. i. 470 ; Cav. Dias. i. t. 7, fig. 9 ; Roxb. PI. Ind. iii. 179 ; 
Bl. Bijdr. 79. S. Beloere, L’Her. Stirp. i. 130. *S. Eteroomischos, Cav. 
Diss. ii. 55 and v. p. 275, t. 128. 
Singapore, Selangore and probably in all the other provinces. 
A weed. 
3. Urena, Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs, more or less covered with rigid stellate hairs. 
Leaves angled or lobed. Flowers clustered. Bracteoles 5, adnate to the 
5-cleft calyx, sometimes coherent at the base into a cup. Petals 5, 
often tomentose at the back, free above, connate below and united to 
the base of the tube of the stamens. Staminal-tule truncate or minute- 
ly toothed. Anthers nearly sessile. Ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled, 
opposite the petals; stigmatic branches 10; stigmas capitate. Pipe 
carpels covered with hooked bristles or smooth, indehiscent, separating 
from the axis when ripe. Seed ascending ; cotyledons bent and folded ; 
radicle inferior. Distrib. Species 4-5, natives of tropical and sub- 
tropical countries, 2 only being confined to Asia. 
U. LOR at A, Linn. Spec. 974. A herbaceous undershrub 1 to 3 feet 
high, more or less hairy. Leaves very variable ; the lower rotund to 
reniform, more or less cordate at the base, the apex usually acute, edges 
with 5 to 7 shallow lobes or sub-entire, 5 to 7-nerved ; length 1 to 2 in., 
breadth 1 to 2'5 in. ; upper leaves smaller and sometimes ovate to 
linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved. Petiole shorter than the blade ; bracteoles 
oblong-lanceolate, as long as the sepals. Oorolla pink, *5 to 1 in, in 
diam. Carpels tomentose, and with many smooth hooked spines. Mast, 
in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 329; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 149; Cav. 
Diss. iv. p. 336, t. 185, fig. 1 ; Miq. PI. Jungh. 283 ; DC. Prodr. i. 441 ; 
Roxb. PI. Ind. iii. 182; W. & A. Prodr. i. 56; Wall. Cat. 1928; Dalz. 
& Gibs. Bomb. PI. 18; Thwaites Enum. 25; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 
148. U. cana, Wall. Cat. 1930 B. TJ. palmata, Roxb. PI. Ind. iii 182. 
V. tomentosa, Bl. Bijdr. 65. 
All the Provinces : a weed. Distrib. The tropics generally. 
Var. 1. sinnata, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. l.c, ; leaves deeply 5-lobed, the 
lobes narrowed at the base, serrate, often pinnatifid, bracteoles linear ; 
flowers often smaller than in the typical plant. U. sinuata, Linn. ; DC. 
Prodr. i. 441; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50; FI. Ind. iii. 182; Wall. Cat. 1933 
E. ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 46 ; Hook. PI. Br. Ind. i. 329 ; Thwaites Enum, 
