494 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



Species 1. 



Gossypium album, lana semineque albis. 



Gossypium herbaceum. Burnt. Fl. Lid. 150. (excluso synonymo 



Rumphii.) 

 Gossypium frutescens, animum, folio trilobato Barbadense. 



Pink. Aim. 172. Phyt. t. 188. /. 1. et forte f. 2. et t. 299- 



Colitur praesertim in Egypto, Asi& Minore, Syria, et Antillis. 



Species 2. 



Gossypium nigrum, lan& alba, semine nigricante. 



Kudu Pariti. Hort. Mai. i. 55. t. 31. 



Gossypium. Herb. Amb. iv. 33. 1. 12. ; et Gossypium latifolium. 



Herb. Amb. iv. 37- t. 13. 

 Gossypium herbaceum, &c. Pluk. Aim. 172. Phyt. t. 188. 



/. 3. 

 Gossypium arboreum. Burm. Ind. 150. 

 Colitur praesertim in Indid vetere et aquosd. 



Species 3. 



Gossypium croceum, lana crocea. 



Gossypium religiosum. Hort. Beng. 51. Willd. Sp. PL iii. 805. 



Colitur in Indi& Gangeticd rarius, in China plurimum. 



Chovanna Mandaru prima, p. 57. fig. 32. 



There can be no doubt that this is the Bauhinia variegata of 

 authors, although the specific character given in Willdenow, and 

 copied in the Hortus Kewensis, will little enable one to distin- 

 guish it, especially from the Candida, the only difference between 

 these plants being in the colour of the flower. I therefore con- 

 sider them as mere accidental varieties. In the south of India 



the 



