18 SYLVA TELLUR. 



R. B. sem. cinereo tomentosa teretiuscula, 

 byssus elongate albo South America, 7 feet 

 high, giving only one yearly crop of 2^ ounces 

 of cotton similar to that of the Guyana Cotton. 



58. Gossypiiim (Lanig.) isahelum Raf sem. 

 rubrofusca tomentosa,teretiuscula, corona pilosa, 

 byssus fiaveolus Asiatic, cotton very fine of 

 Isabella yellow, but not very productive. 



59. Gossypium ^ Lanig.) albescens Raf, 26 

 R. B. sem. ovata tota tomentosa non apiculata, 



bvssus albescens tenax several varieties 1. 



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megaspermuni, large seeds^ cotton of a dirty 

 white, 4 ounces per tree, 2. rubescens, cotton 

 of a redish white color. 3 cayenense small seeds, 

 cotton worthless of a dirty white, very hard to 

 pick, wild at Cayenne. 



60. Gossypium (Lanig.) bicolor Raf. sem, 

 tomentosis ovatis nonnulis cinereis, nonnulis 

 viridis, byssus albo tenax Trinidad, a singular 

 sp. by two kinds of seeds in the same pods, grey 

 and dark green, wrongly deemed a var. of last 

 by Rohr. cotton fine and white. 



61. Gossypium (Lanig) purpureum Raf. 27 

 R. B. sem. ovatis tomentosis pilosisque apicula- 

 tis, fol. calicibusq, purpureis byssus albo tenax 

 Antilles and S. Amer. 7 feet high, only li ounce 

 of cotton^ petiols, nerves and twigs red. 



62. Gossypium (Lanig.) speciosum Raf. foL 

 lobis acutis, uniglandulosis, petalis rubro notatis, 

 sem, globosa tomentosa canescens, bysso tenax 

 from India, small shrub, but with fine citron 

 flowers with a large red spot at base of petals, 

 capsules small, cotton very short whitish. Is it 

 the G. microcarpon ? 



63. Gossypium (Lanig.) cambayense Raf, G. 

 religiosus var. 28 Rohr, B fol. lobis subrotundis, 

 glandula sepe carenE, petalis et sem. ut in 62.^ 



