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GOSSYPIUM barbadense 

 Barbadocs Cotton-Tree. 



MONADELPHIA POL YASDRIA. 



Nat. od. Malvaceje. 



Div. 111. Stamina in tubum corolliferum connata, indefinite. Fru6- 

 tus simplex multilocularis. 



GOSSYPIUM. Cal. cyathiformis (brevissimus) pmirtatus (re- 



pando-) siibi-lobiis, calyculo cinctui majore (piano) S-fido laciniis 

 dentato-cristatis. (Cor. pentapetala.) Anthem (renifonnes) in apice & 

 superficie tubi. Stylus 1, (columnaris longitndine staininum :) stigmata 

 3-4, (crassiuscula.) Caps. (3-s.-4-loc, 3-s. 4-valvis Gen. pi,) poly- 

 spermia, seminibus lami involutis, (angulo locnlamentorum central! duplici 

 serie aftixis. Gart.) Arbuscuhc out J'rutices quidam subherhavei \ 

 jiores axi/lares. Folia quorumdam nervo pracipuo subtus glanduhso. 

 Jussieu sen. £74. 



G. barbadense, foliis superioribus trilobis, inferioribtti quinqtielobis, 



caule laeviori, seminibus liberis. Swartz obs. 266. 

 Gossvpiuni barbadense. Linn. sp. pi. 2. 975. Mill. diet. ed. 8. ;?. 2. 

 - Jlort. Kew. 2. 453. ed. 2. 4. 224. Swartz in Nov. act. holm. 1790. 



21. Wil/d. sp. pi. S. 806. 

 G. frutescens annuum, folio trilobo, barbadense. Pluk. aim. 172. 



Phyt. t. 188./. 1. 



Caulis orgyalis et ultra, suffruticosus, biennis et ultra, ramosus, terns ; rami 

 crectiusculi, teretes, lecves s. pubescentes. Folia diam. 4t-5-uncudi : lobis 

 ovatis, acutis, ncrvosis, subtiis pubescent i/ms et quoque supra ad nervoi : 

 petioli teretes, patuli. Fori 3 in nereis foliorum medii. Fedunculi l : //ori. 

 tegmenta calycis exterioris magna, cordata, laciniato-cristata, acuta. Fiores 

 magni, flavi. Pet. basi cohcerentia, obcordata, imbricato-rotata lobo altero 

 sinus summi eccentrici obsolescente, extra imbricationem foris pubescentia f 

 macula sanguined in basi. Caps, ovata, acuminata, glabra. Sem. oblonga, 

 plura, nigra land alba involuta. Tata plant a s&pius conspersa atomis atro* 



purpureas. 



Scarcely any diligence can at this daj 



P 



ely as it were to be 



species Linmuus intended by barbadense. The specimen 

 in his Herbarium being doubtful; the figure cited for it, 

 from Plukenett's work, deficient in character; and the 

 specific phrase too vague for near distinction. The present 

 plant however is that which has passed traditionally in our 

 collections for barbadense, and is the one of the Banksian 

 Herbarium, Hortus Kewensis, Swartz, Willdenow, &c. &c. 



The species approaching the nearest to it are the East Indian 

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