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SIDA grandifolia. 
Large-leaved Sida. 
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- MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Matvacrm. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. II. Stamina in tubum 
corolliferum connata, indefinita. Fructus multicapsularis; capsule verti- 
cillate, in orbem disposite aut in unam compacte. 
SIDA. Cal. 5-fidus simplex. Anther@ in apice tubi. Stylz plures 
(5-30) basi approximati (rard stylus veré unicus); stigmata totidem, 
Capsule totidem 1-loculares 1-8-spermz 2-valyes, in unam conniventes. 
Frutices aut herbe, rard arbores; flores axillares aut terminales, pedicellis 
sub gales quast articulatis, in articulo solubilibus, observante D. Cavanilles. 
Ex eodem petala in speciebus 5-10-capsularibus 1-spermis sepiis hinc falcattm 
et obliqué productiora, in ceteris non item. Capsule in S. vesicaria ejusdem 
S-sperme.. Juss. loc. cit. 
Div. Foliis cordatis dentatis, pedunculis multifloris vel racemosis. 
8. grandifolia, foliis subrotundo-cordatis inzequalitér dentatis pubescenti- 
‘mollibus, pedunculis bi-triflorisque petiolo brevioribus, capsulis acumi- 
natis calyce partiim majoribus, ramis hirtis. Willd. enum. 2. '724. 
Arbor viginti-pedalis. Folia in juntore arbore semipedalia, in adultd qua- 
dripollicaria. Capsule circitér decem subtruncate acuminate calyce parim 
majores hirte trisperme. Willd. loc. cit. 
A species lately introduced by Mr. Lambert, by whom 
it was raised at. Boyton House, from seed ripened in the 
Botanic Garden at Berlin. It requires to be kept in the 
hothouse, where it flowers during the winter season. 
Willdenow, by whom it has been recorded in the Cata- 
logue of the Berlin Garden, had not ascertained from whence 
it came. 
Sipa differs from Husrscus in having a single, instead of 
a double calyx, and a fruit of many capsules, instead of a 
five-celled capsule. In the synopsis of Persoon we find 122 
species, a great proportion of which belong to tropical 
America and India. 
Mr. Brown, in his excellent treatise on the Botany of 
Congo, has the following remark concerning the natural tribe 
to which the present genus belongs. “The Malvacew, Ti- 
“ liacee, Hermanniacee, Butneriacew, and Sterculiaceee, 
“ constitute one natural class; of which the orders appear 
“ to meas nearly related as the different sections of Rosace 
