Gossypitim. monadelphia dodecanoria. 187 



7. G. Barhadense. mild. iii. 806. 



Shrubby. Leaves smooth, with five acute, short, broad 

 lobes. Leaflets of the exterior calyx deeply laciiiiate, 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. 



BouHBON Cotton is the name this species is known by 

 amonost 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 fertde 

 soil of Coromandel, than in Bengal, where the plant grows 

 to a g-reat size, yields less cotton, and the cullivation is very 

 generally relinquished, though there must be m;uiy situations 

 near the mountains of our northern frontier where it would 

 thrive. 



8. G. Mrsutnm. Willd. iii. 805. 



Shrubby, tender parts hairy. Leaves hairy, with from 

 three to five, triangular, acute l(»l)es. Erterior cahjx laci- 

 niate. Carol unitorm pale yellow . Capsule ovate, acute. 

 Seeds free, clothed with firmly adhering- green, or gray 

 down, under the fine, long-, white wool. 



Xylon Americanum prestantissimum, semine virescente. 

 TUmih. 101. 



This green-seeded variety has only been of late introduced 

 into India, w here the cotton is much admired by the natives. 

 Another variety very lately introduced into the Botanic 

 garden by Mr. Hamilton of Philadelphia, has the wool of a 

 coarser nature, and the down w hich covers the seeds under 

 it of a dirty >vhite, 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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