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P L A T E DLXXI.
S I D A P A T E N S .
Spreading Sida.
C L A S S XVL ORDER VIIL
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX simplex. Stylus multipartltus. Capsul
® plures, mono- seu tri-spermae.
CALYX simple. Pointal many-parted. Seedvessels
many, one- or three-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER,
SiDA foliis cordatiSj dentatis, longè acuminatisi
leviter pubescentibus ; pedunculis solitariis
petiolis longioribus ; eorollis patentibus ;
stylis quinquepartitis ; capsulis quinque,
birostratis.
S I D A with heart-shaped, toothed, long-pointed,
and slightly woolly leaves; solitary flcwerstalks
longer than the footstalks; spreading
corollas, five-parted styles, and five twobeaked
capsules.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The chives spread open, one tip magnified.
3 . Seed-bud and pointal.
ANOTHER African novelty introduced by Viscount Valentia in 1 8 0 6 from Abyssinia; and from specimens
obligingly communicated by him from his gardens at Arly the drawing is taken. From
the seeds already introduced by his Lordship from that yet unexplored, and hitherto almost inaccessible
country, and from the connexions he is now endeavouring to establish there, Mr. Salt, who travelled in
his Lordship's suite, being now dispatched on an embassy to the King of that country at Gondar, we
may soon hope to have a few more specimens of its vegetable productions; at present as imperfectly
known as the sources of the Nile, which have eluded the researches of philosophers above two thousand
years.
Sida patens, in the natural arrangement of the genus, should be placed next to Sida rqflexa of Cavanilles
and Willdenow.
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