186 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, Gossypium. 
Nankeen, or brown cotton, allied to G. hirsutum. This 
species has been introduced into Bengal under the name 
Nankeen cotton, but does not thrive so well as to make it 
profitable ; the colour of the wool tawny, and very different 
from the colour of the cotton cloth commonly called Nankeen, 
which is no doubt dyed, This can scarcely be more than a 
variety of hirsutum, 
Note, Since writing the foregoing, a small variety of this 
tawny cotton has been introduced into this garden from the 
province of Nankeen itself, bat unfortunately it promises still 
less than the first, and the colour and quality of the wool is 
much the same. 
5. G. vitifolinm. Willd. iii. 804. 
-Sub-arboreous, dark purple, and hairy. Leaves three, 
sometimes five-lobed ; /obes triangular, and acuminate. Cap- 
sules oblong ; sides clothed with firmly adhering short, green- 
ish gray down, under the long, fine, white wool. 
Native place uncertain, but in the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta it grows to be a small, ramous tree, with all the tender 
parts highly coloured, and very hairy. This sort is in flower 
and seed the whole year, and though the wool or cotton is 
fine and large in the fibre, it does not promise advantage to 
the cultivator, on account of the scantiness of the crop. — 
6. G, acuminatum, R. ss 
- Sub-arboreous. Leaves from three to five-lobed; Jobes 
oblong, tapering much, and very acute. Calyx deeply la- 
ciniate, Stipules linear-lanceolate. Capsules long-ovate, 
much pointed, Seeds many, adhering firmly to each other, 
black, and free of every pubescence, except the long, white 
wool which is easily removed ; said to be'a native of the 
mountains to the north and westward of Bengal. — 
Ido not find that this species is ever cultivated. It is 
readily distinguished by its superior size, and —* weer 
seeds, which adhere firmly toeach other, 7 
