Gossypium, MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, 183 
A low, stout, very ramous species, a native of Coromandel ; 
flowers in October. 
GOSSYPIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1138. 
Calyx double; the exterior one three-parted. Capsules 
from three to five-celled. . Seeds clothed with cotton wool. 
1. G. obtusifolium, R. 
Shrubby, very ramous. Leaves small, with three, rarely 
five, obtuse, ovate, entire lobes. Stipules faleate. The eate- 
rior calyx with entire divisions. Capsu/es ovate ; cells three- 
seeded, Seeds free and clothed with firmly adhering, short, 
gteenish-gray down, under a small portion of ash-coloured © 
wool, 5 
A native of Ceylon, but not cultivated, Flowers during 
mes rains and cold season in the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 
2. .G, aberans Cavan, vical vi. BLL. 2. 193. NG iii. 
804, 
‘Shrabby, th thin of vrai nate feo three to five-lob- 
ed, hairy. Stipules ensiform, Leaflets roundish ac a 
Seeds free, but downy under the white wool, 
G. herbaceum. S. Xylon Madraspatense viebieadld pen- 
taphyllum. Pluck. Am, p. 172. f. 3. seems to me to be this 
plant, but I cannot bring myself to think Cudu pariti of the 
Hortus Malabaricus, i, t. 31, to be the same. It may proba- 
bly be Geertner’s Gossypium religiosum., In both, the cap- 
sules are nearly round, and I know of no other species with 
any thing like a round pericarpium, 
_ It is found in the gardens of the curious over most parts of 
India, where it is in flower great part of the year. 
From my enquiries and observations, it does not apes 3 
ever to be So-csbanaa for its wool. 
