Gossypium, | MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, 187 
7. G. Barbadense, Willd, iii, 806, 
Shrubby. Leaves smooth, with five acute, short, broad 
lobes, Leaflets of the exterior calyx deeply laciniate, and 
the colour of the corol uniform yellow, Capsules oblong, 
pointed, Seeds free, black, and without any other pubes- 
cence than the long , fine, white wool, 
Bourson Corton is the name this species is known by 
amongst the English in the East Indies, It does not appear to 
be a native of India, but introduced from the Island of Bour- 
bon, some twenty years ago; at what period it was intro- 
duced from the West Indies into that Island, is uncertain, It 
succeeds better in the more elevated, dryer, and less fertile 
soil of Coromandel, than in Bengal, where the plant grows 
to a great size, yields less cotton, and the cultivation is yery 
generally relinquished, though there must be many situations 
near the mountains of our northern frontier where it would 
thrive. 
8. G, hirsutum, Witld, iii, 805. 
Shrubby, tender parts hairy, Leaves hairy, with from 
three to five, triangular, acute lobes, Exterior calyx laci- 
niate, Corol uniform pale yellow. Capsule ovate, acute, 
Seeds free, clothed with firmly adhering ere" or ery 
down, under the fine, long, white wool. - 
Xylon Americanum —— semine virescenté, 
Thunb. 101. 
_ This green-seeded variety has only been of late introduced 
into India, where the cotton is much admired by the natives, 
Another variety very Jately introduced into the Botanic 
garden by Mr, Hamilton of Philadelphia, has the wool of a 
coarser nature, and the down which covers the seeds under 
it of a dirty white, or ash-colour. This promises little or no 
benefit to India. 
After a search of above thirty years, I have not been able 
to ‘find more well defined species of this genus, than” the 
first mentioned four and the sixth species, with their varieties, 
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