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unites them; the first states, that in the Royal Garden at 
Paris he had seen a plant, known as the yellow cotton of 
Siam, which very much resembled his @. redigiosum, but 
that its cotton was of a yellow colour. Dr. Roxburgh con- 
siders the species he describes under this name, Nankeen 
cotton, as allied to G. hirsutum, and says, that it is not 
productive. Mr. Spalding states, that in Georgia the tawny 
cotton is most productive ; if it proved so in India, though of 
inferior quality, it would be useful as clothing for the natives. 
It appears to me that two distinct species yield tawny- 
coloured cotton, one with small velvetty-looking leaves, and 
much dotted in every part, to which may be referred Dr. 
Lindley’s specimen from Macao, as well as that from 
Otaheite. Of this there is also a specimen in the British 
Museum from Guzerat. The other is a much larger plant, 
with the general appearance and leaves of G. Barbadense ; 
of it there is an excellent specimen in the East-Indian Her- 
barium, No. 1875. This is marked, Herb. Madras. (a.) G. 
frore albo leviter flavescente dat xylon obscure flavescentum ; 
another is (b.) G. hirsuti var. Nanquin Baumwolle ; Tan- 
jore, April 1813. Mr, Wilkinson has brought specimens 
from Egypt of rather tawny-coloured cotton, with brownish 
seed, free from fur, which is there called gotun hindee. 
7. G. hirsutum ; Shrubby, about six feet high, young 
parts very hairy. Leaves, the upper undivided cordate, 
acute, the lower 3 or 5-lobed, lobes ovate, acute (trian- 
gular Aowb.) hairy on the under, and smooth on the upper 
surface. Petioles very hairy, dotted with black spots. 
Glands 1 or 2 to 3. Stipules lanceolate (Cav.) Coro, 
base yellow, purplish towards apex (uniform yellow Rozb.) 
Exterior calyx, ovate-acute very hairy (cordate, 3-toothed 
Cav. laciniate Rowb.) Capsule large, ovate-acute. Seeds 
many, free, clothed with firmly-adhering green down, under 
the fine long white wool.—Swartz, Observ. Bot. p. 265. 
Roxb. Fl. Ind.3. p. 187. Cavanilles Diss. 6. p. 312. t. 167. 
This species, according to Swartz, is cultivated in Ja- 
maica, where it is frequently called French cotton, and 
every where in the West-India islands. It would appear 
from the character of the seed, to be the green-seeded short. 
staple or upland cotton of the Americans. Smith, in Rees’ 
Cycl. supposes this to be onlya hairy variety of G. herbacewm. 
Dr. Roxburgh states that this green-seeded variety had only 
been lately introduced into India, where the cotton was 
much admired by the natives. Specimens, apparently of 
this species, from the hairiness of the leaves, and dentate 
cordate exterior calyces, and marked G. indicum, may be 
seen in a paper with G, arboreum (marked G. religiosum), 
and G. herbaceum, in the East-Indian Herbarium. 
8. G. Barbadense. Stem shrubby, 6-15 feet, smooth, 
Leaves, the upper 3-lobed, the lower 5-lobed, lobes ovate, 
acute, smooth, often pubescent on the under surface, 
Leaflets of exterior calyx large, deeply laciniate. Flowers 
yellow. Capsule ovate-acuminate smooth, Seeds 8-12, 
free, oblong, black, and without any other pubescence than 
the long, fine, easily separable white wool.—Swartz, Obs. 
Bot. p- 266. Roxb. Fl. Ind, 3. p. 187.—@. vittfolium, 
Cav. Diss. 6. p. 311. tab. 166. 
G. barbadense was first taken up from Plukenet, dim. 
t. 188. f. 1., published in 1695, but this figure may answer 
equally well for some other species. That described 
by Swartz under this name, he states is more extensively 
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cultivated than any other kind in the West-Indies, Dr. 
Roxburgh says, that G. barbadense was intrcduced into 
India from the Isle of Bourbon; hence it is known there 
by the name of Bourbon cotton, aad, at what period it 
was introduced from the West-Indies into that island is 
uncertain, Sir James Smith was of opinion, that G. bar- 
badense, of the Linnean Herbarium, was the G, vitifolium. 
of Cavanilles; previous to knowing this, I had formed the 
opinion that G, vitifolium, of which I first saw a specimen 
from Egypt in Professor Lindley’s Herbarium, which 
agreed in every respect with the description by Cavanilles, 
was the same as the G. barbadense, or Bourbon cotton of 
India, On examining the Linnean Herbarium, I could 
observe no difference between G, barbadense of that collec. 
tion, and that grown in India, and known by that name, nor 
between these and G, vitifolium, in Smith’s Herbarium, 
from the Isle of France ; and all correspond with the figure 
and description, by Cavanilles, of G, vitifolium, which are 
from a plant in Commerson’s Herbarium, gathered also in 
the Isle of France, I have, therefore, no doubt but that 
G. barbadense of Swartz and Roxburgh, is the same as 
G. vitifolium of Cavanilles, and consequently of many other 
authors. It is singular that the latter author, when de- 
scribing all the species which he could procure of Gossy- 
pium, mentions G. barbadense as a plant unknown to him ;- 
and Swartz, in describing the West-Indian species, omits all 
mention of G, vitifolium; but the information that his 
G. barbadense is the species most cultivated in the West- 
Indies, is important, as showing that from it, probably, 
some of the most valuable of the cultivated varieties of 
cotton have been obtained. Specimens, marked G, bar- 
badense, in B.M., brought by Dr.Wright from Jamaica, 
may be referred to this species, and considered the type 
of the variety vitifolium. ‘The leaves are palmate, 5-lobed, 
acuminate, like those of Ricinus communis, hairy under- 
neath, with stellate pubescence, stem reddish, as well as 
the cordate, deeply laciniate leaflets of the exterior calyx. 
The corol is large and yellow. A specimen bearing leaves 
of both ene may be seen in the Smithian Her- 
barium, : 
Taking the smooth and shining stem and leaves, black 
seed enveloped only in the easily-separable long wool, as 
the characteristics of this species, we may refer to it, 
several varieties of cultivated cottons in the British Mu- 
seum, brought by Mr. Millington from the West-Indies ; 
also, G. vitifolium, brought by M. Bové, as the cotton 
cultivated near Cairo, in Dr. Lindley’s Herbarium. It was 
also brought by Mr.Wilkinson, as one of the cultivated 
cottons of Egypt. It seems to be distributed in the Pacific 
Ocean, as Dr. Lindley has a specimen from Owhyhee. 
As the Egyptian was most probably imported from Ame- 
rica, the best cotton country when the cultivation was 
re-established in Egypt, it is more than probable that the 
Sea-island, or long-staple, is a variety of this species, as its 
seeds agree in character. As it succeeds so well in Egypt, 
of which the climate in many respects resembles that of 
the north-western provinces of India, some of its varieties 
may probably succeed as an article of culture in that coun-— 
try; that it does so as a plant there can be no doubt, as it has 
been for many years in the Saharunpore Botanic Garden, 
_It exists in the East-Indian Herbarium, under the name of 
Maurice 
