184 MONADELPH!IA DODECANDRIA. Gossypium. 
3. G. herbaceum. Willd. iii. 803. 
Bi-triennial ; young parts hairy. Leaves hoary, palmate, 
with sub-lanceolate, rather acute lobes. Stipules falcate- 
lanceolate, Leaves of the exterior calyx dentate, Capsules 
ovate, pointed. Seeds free, clothed with firmly adhering, 
white down, under the long white wool. 
Gossypium, Capas. Rumph. Amb. iv. p. 33. t. 12. 
Sans. Karpassee, 
_ Hind, Rewee. 
Beng. Kapass. 
G. herbaceum, Cavan. Diss. vi, p. 310. t. 164, fir 2: 
Arab. Kootn, 
Teling, Pati-chittoo the plant, and Pati the cotton itself. 
This and its varieties are by far the most universally cul- 
tivated by the natives of India, The most a of 
these varieties are the Dacca, Berar, and China cottons. | 
Dacca Corron may be reckoned the first variety, or de- 
viation, from the last mentioned common sort. 
G. herbaceum is in general cultivation all over Bengal and 
Coromandel. It is reared about Dacca, and furnishes that 
exceedingly fine cotton wool employed in manufacturing the 
very delicate, beautiful muslins of that place. The Dacca 
variety differs from the common G, herbaceum in ~ follow- 
ing respects. , 
Ist. In the plant being more erect, with fewer branches, 
and the lobes of the leaves more pointed. 
2nd. In the whole plant being tinged of a reddish colour, 
even the petioles, and nerves of the leaves, and being less 
pubescent, 
3rd, In having the peduncles which support the flowers 
longer, and the exterior a of che — onlay with 
red, 
dih, In the staple of the cotton — longer, much fo, 
and softer. 
These are the most obvious disagreements, but whether 
they will prove permanent I cannot say at present, The 
