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demum sanguineis; seminibus liberis viridi-velutinis, lana longa candida.—G. herbaceum, Linn. Spec. 
975. Nomen vernac. ** Vauvau ni papalagi.” —Introduced into Viti (Seemann! n. 31). 
There is a variety of this species with long, and one with short staple, also the “ New Orleans Cotton" 
(G. sanguineum, Hassk.), the flowers of which are at first yellow, and afterwards more br less intensely 
pink or blood-red. 
4. G. tomentosum, Nutt. mss.; fruticosum; ramulis folis bracteisque cano-tomentosis 
foliis 3-5-lobis, lobis ovatis acuminatis v. acutis integerrimis obscure v. distincte punctatis; stipulis 
cordatis v. ovatis acuminatis; pedunculis 1—2-floris; bracteis ovato-oblongis, basi cordatis, apice 
laciniatis, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis; calyce subtruncato distincte nigro-punctato ; petalis 
(flavis) obovatis, extus in parte exteriori tomentosis, in parte inclusa latiore tenuiore glabris; cap- 
sulis 3-valvis, valvis apiculatis ; seminibus liberis dense croceo-velutinis, lana (2 unc. long.) crocea. 
—G. religiosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 185, non Linn. G. parvifolium, Nutt. Herb.—Viti Levu, 
on the Rakiraki coast (Smythe!), Kadavu (Pritchard! Seemann! n. 28). Also collected in Oahu, 
Atoi, Hawai (Diell! Nuttall ), Maui, Sandwich Islands (D. Nelson! Menzies !). 
This is the plant which A. Gray (Bot. Wilkes, p. 179) calls G. religiosum, but it is not that of 
Cavanilles, which is more glabrous, has a deeper-cleft calyx, white flowers, and the seeds quite glabrous, 
after the removal of the wool.* "The Sandwich Islands plant is apparently identical with that described by 
Roxburgh 1. e. under the name G. religiosum, which, he says, has “seeds free, clothed with firmly-adhering, 
short, tawny down, and long wool of the same colour.” There is a specimen of “Yellow Cotton” from Joy- 
negau (Trove!) at the British Museum, which has very small leaves,—the smallest I have seen in this genus, 
—agreeing as far as it goes with the above species; and there is a starved specimen of G. tomentosum from 
Hawai (Diell !) which has the leaves almost as small, and which Nuttall had provisionally named G. parvi- 
folium. But generally the leaves and flowers of G. tomentosum are those of the size usual in this genus.t 
* For the sake of comparison, I subjoin Solander’s description of the true G. religiosum in his Prim. 
Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 274 (ined.), made from fresh plants, and accompanied by specimens preserved at the 
British Museum :— : 
“Gossypium religiosum, Linn. Syst. Nat. 462 : 5. ‘Wavai’ insularibus oceani Pacifici. Habitat 
in Tahiti, Huahine, Raiatea, et Tahaa. Frutex orgyalis, erectus, diffusus, ramosissimus, undique adspersus 
punctis nigris glandulosis. Rami divaricatissimi, teretes, virides. Folia alterna, petiolata, patentia, 
plana, magnitudine palma, glabra, lata, basi cordata, inferiora quinqueloba, suprema minora triloba. 
Sinubus obtusissimis, rotundatis.  Lobis integerrimis, acuminatis. Petioli teretes, longitudine foliorum. 
Stipule ovato-lanceolatse, acuminate, parve, caduce. Glandule: Puncta parva, nigra, convexa, nume- 
rosissima in ramis, ramulis, petiolis, pedunculis, foliorum nervis, stipulis, calycibus exterioribus ; in calyce 
interiore, germine, capsula paginisque foliorum glandule vix tito fübetatites vel potius puncta impressa 
nigrieantia: in caulibus glandule fere obliteratw. Prater has glandulas, unica oblonga majuscula, subtus 
in costa intermedia foliorum, a basi remota. Pedunculi- oppositifolii, solitarii, uniflori, petiolis crassiores 
illisque duplo vel triplo brevioribus. Calyx exterior 3-phyllus, magnus, sesquiuncialis et biuncialis, per- 
sistens, angulos 3 acutos formans. Foliola lata, subovalia, basi profunde cordata, medio sinus basi germinis 
adnata, pallide virentia, nervosa, rugulosa, extus laciniata. Lacinie lanceolato-lineares, acuminate, por- 
rect, longe; lateralibus brevioribus. Calyx interior albidus, monophyllus, urceolatus, exteriori duplo 
brevior, 5-fidus. Zacinie subulats, acuminate, longitudine tubi. Petala 5, cuneiformia, extrorsum latis- 
sima, oblique truncata, sspe insqualiter retusa, altero latere altiora et productiora, basi parum coalita, 
calyce parum longiora, oblique se invicem latere incumbentia, unde corolla patenti campanulata, primum 
alba, dein incarnata, tandem rubieunda. Ungues tamen semper ex albido flavescentes sunt. Filamenta 
(generis) corolle basi affixa, petiolis duplo breviora. Germen superum, ovatum, glabrum. Stylus filiformis, 
staminibus longior (corolla tamen paulo brevior) superne 4-gonus. Stigma 4-fidum: laciniis arcte cohæ- 
rentibus, rectis. Capsula ovato-subglobosa, obtusissime 4-gona, 4-locularis, 4-valvis. „Semina ovata, acuta 
[libera, glabra, B. S.], lana involuta, plerumque 4 in singulo loeulamento." [I should add that there 
are no specimens of G. religiosum preserved in Linnseus's own herbarium.— B. S.] | 
T The following is an additional and very distinct Polynesian species :— 
Gossypium drynarioides, Seem. (sp. nov.); fruticosa, glabra; foliis 5-7-lobis; lobis triangularibus 
acutis, supra viridibus, subtus pallidioribus nigro-punctatis; peduneulis 1-floris; bracteis 3 amplis coriaceis 
cordato-ovatis obtuse sinuato-crenatis 10-12-nerviis; calyce 5-fido; petalis obovato-oblongis, extus pube- 
scentibus.—Sandwich Islands (Nelson! in Herb. Mus. Brit). The large coriaceous bracts look exactly 
like the base of the fronds of Drynaria; they are more coriaceous than in any other species, and give so 
strange an aspect to this plant that I have hesitated about the genus. As far as the specimens go,—they 
