596 lewton: history of kidney cotton 



unusual cotton plants growing in a temple yard at Sidhpoor. 

 He planted seeds of these near Bombay, and obtained plants 

 which he described as a new species under the name Gossypium 

 imhricatum, from the imbricate arrangement of the seeds. In 

 the meantime, however, John Graham, the superintendent of 

 the botanical gardens of the Agri-Horticultural Society of 

 Western India, in Bombay, published "A Catalogue of the 

 Plants Growing in Bombay and its Vicinity," in which he de- 

 scribed^^ under the name Gossypium vaupellii the cotton brought 

 from Sidhpoor in Guzerat by Vaupell. 



Two or three years before the names proposed by Graham 

 and by Vaupell for this type of cotton were published, there 

 appeared the "Flora of Jamaica" by James Macfadyen, founded 

 largely on the work of Sir Hans Sloane. Under the name Gossyp- 

 ium brasiliense, Macfadyen gives a much better description 

 of the kidney cotton than those appearing in earlier works, 

 and says that "In the time of Sloane as well as in that of Edwards 

 it was known by the name of Brazilian cotton." ^^ 



Since 1814 the following names have been published as applying 

 solely to kidney cotton: 



Gossypium lapideum Tussac, Fl. Antill. 2: 67. 181 8. 



Gossypium acuminatum Roxb. Hort. Beng. 51, nomen nudum. 18 14; 



Fl. Ind. 3: 186. 1832. 

 Gossypium arboreum Veil. Fl. Flum. 7: pi. 4g. 1827. Not L. 1753. 

 Gossypium brasiliense MacFad., Fl. Jam. i: 72. 1837. 

 Gossypium perenne Blanco, Fl. Filip., ed. i, 537. 1837. 

 Gossypium guyanense Raf. Sylva Tell. 16. 1838. 

 Gossypium vaupellii Graham, Cat. Plants Bombay and Vicinity, 



15- .1839. 

 Gossypium imbricatum Vaupell, Trans. Agric. Hort. Soc. Bombay. 



1840. 

 Gossypium conglomeratum Wiesner, Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzf., ed. 



2, 2: 236. 1903. 



Of these, Tussac's name, although antedated by that of 

 Roxburgh, is the first name which was associated with a de- 

 scription sufficiently clear to identify the species intended. 



^2 Graham, John. A Catalogue of the Plants Growing in Bombay atid Its Vicin- 

 ity 15. 1839. 

 " Macfadyen, James. Flora of Jamaica i: 72. 1837. 



