FLORA VITIENSIS, 15 
Orvo XIII. MALVACEZA. 
I, Sida, Linn. Gen. n. 837; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 208. Bracteolz 0 vy. a calyce distantes, 
Calyx 5-dentatus v, 5-fidus. Columna staminea, apice in filamenta oo divisa. Ovaria 5-00, 1-ovulata ; 
styli rami totidem, filiformes vy. subclavati, apice capitato- y. truncato-stigmatosi, Carpella matura 
ab axi secedentia, erostria v, apice in rostra y. aristas erecto-conniventes producta, indehiscentia vy. 
apice 2-valyia, intus nuda. Semen pendulum y. horizontaliter affixum,—Herbz fruticesve indu- 
mento sxpius nullo v. tomentoso; floribus sessilibus v. pedunculatis, solitariis v. glomeratis, axilla- 
ribus v. in racemos spicas v. capitula terminalia dispositis, versicoloribus et interdum speciosis, 
szepius tamen minoribus, flavis v. albidis, 
* Pedunculi inarticulati. 
1. S, linifolia, Cav, Diss. yol. i. p. 14. t. 2. fig. 1; DC. Prodr. vol. i. p- 459; erecta; foliis 
linearibus integerrimis, floris diametro multo longioribus; racemis terminalibus; pedunculis inarti- 
culatis ; floribus parvis, carpellis 5-8 submuticis.—Ovalau (U. S, Expl. Exped.). 
2, S. microphylla, Cav. Diss, vol. i. p. 22. t. 12. fig. 2; DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 461; erecta v. 
prostrata ; ramis stellato-pubescentibus demum glabris; foliis ellipticis y. subrotundatis dentatis, 
supra pubescentibus, subtus albido-tomentosis ; peduneulis axillaribus v. solitariis inarticulatis, folio 
brevioribus v. multo longioribus; carpellis 7 biaristatis.—Sida rhombifolia, Forst. Prodr. n. 256, 
non Linn. S. salicifolia, Forst. Herb.—Nukulau (Barclay !), and other parts of the group, in waste 
places (U. 8. Expl. Exped.) ; also collected in Tongan Islands (Forster! Sir E. Home !), Isle of 
Pines (M‘Gillivray !), Tana (Forster !), Amsterdam Island (Forster !). 
Bentham referred Barelay’s specimen to 8, microphylla, Cay., and, I think, with justice. To this 
A, Gray objected, on account of the length of the peduncles. But the peduncles are sometimes shorter (as 
in Cavanilles’ figure), and sometimes, or rather generally, longer than the leaf. I now speak of specimens 
gathered in the same spot. The typical S. retusa, to which A. Gray wished to refer his species, is a ver 
distinct plant. The extreme forms of S. microphylla are extremely unlike each other. In unfavourable 
localities the plant is prostrate, and has minute, generally orbicular leaves; in more congenial situations it 
assumes an erect habit, and more elliptical and larger leayes, and then looks like some weak state of 
8. rhombifolia, Forster, when he first collected it, named it Sida salicifolia, remarking in his schedules 
that there were several varieties; but he ultimately referred it, in his ‘ Prodromus,’ to 4, rhombifolia, From 
the latter it is distinguished by its inarticulate peduncles. Guillemin (Zeph. Tait. p. 73) remarked that 
Forster’s specimens had, at first sight, a look different from those of S. rkombifolia, in which he was correct, 
but after all he referred them to 8. rhombifolia, in which he was wrong.t 
** Pedunculi distincte articulatt. 
3. S. rhombifolia, Linn. Spec. 961; DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 462; erecta; foliis oblongo-lanceo- 
+ The following is another Polynesian species :—Sida biloba, (sp. nov.) Herb. Hook.; foliis ovato- y. 
cordato-bilobis, lobis obtusis serratis, supra glabris, subtus cano-tomentosis, ramulis petiolis pedunculis 
ealycibusque fulvido-tomentosis; stipulis subulatis persistentibus; peduneulis axillaribus inarticulatis 
1-floris petiolo multo longioribus; calycis lobis acutis y. acuminatis; earpellis submuticis.—Isle of se 
(M‘Gillivray!). A very distinet species. ‘Leaves scarcely half an inch long, somewhat resembling those 
of 8. retusa. — . 
Sida periplocifolia, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 60 =a periplocifolium, Endl. Ann. Wien. 
Mus. 1836, p. 182, is a species of Wissadula, near rostrata, Hook. f. or: 
Sida Tntivn, Forst. Prodr, n. 257, non ahor., is Abutilon awritum, G. Don. I find at the British Museum 
another new Polynesian Abwtilon, which I have named after its discoverer :— 
Abutilon Menziesti, (sp. nov.) Seem, ; fruticosum; caule ramis petiolis pedunculis angel mre ar 
tomentosis ; foliis cordatis acuminatis grosse crenatis, supra viridibus pube stellato, subtus See eur ; 
pedunculis axillaribus solitariis petiolo brevioribus; calycis laciniis late ovatis acutis; a i Prick 
oblongis acuminatis hirsutis 3-spermis, seminibus hirsutis, placentis perce ; 2 ee eee 
(Menzies! in Herb. Mus. Brit.), There are two small specimens of this Davie ich oy, wae ee 
where described; leaves 2-8 inches long, on petioles longer than the blade; stipules minute ; 
1 inch long, apparently purplish. 

