Cup simple-angled. Shafts many-parted. Seedpods many, one-to three-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Sida foliis inferioribus cordatis angulatis, superioribus elongato-hastatis; pedunculis axillaribus, unifloris, longissimis.
Sida hastata, Willd. Sp. Pl.
Sida with the lower leaves somewhat heart-shaped and angled, the upper ones long-halberd-shaped; flower-stalks very long, one-flowered, and axillary.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The chives spread open.
2. The pointals.
This species was first properly distinguished and described by the Spanish botanist Cavanilles in his Dissertatio de Sida, where he has also given a figure of it; and upon this with the Sida cristata and Dilleniana his genus Anoda was founded. Other botanists, however, have not agreed to this division, and both Professor Martyn in his Dictionary and Willdenow still consider them as Sidas of which they now enumerate 99 species; and the new species brought from Abyssinia by Lord Valentia, and published in our 117th number, completes the century. Most of the species have been destined by nature to blossom beneath a milder sky than ours; the Sida hastata was found by the French botanist Dombey growing naturally in Peru and Lima in moist places; and A. B. Lambert, esq., who favoured us with the specimen last September, received the seeds from the East Indies, The two other varieties of this enumerated by Cavanilles and Willdenow we have not seen. The plant is annual, and has yet been kept in the stove.