Gossypium Barbosanum Phillips & Clement sp. 
nov. 
Frutex perennis, erectus, usque ad 2 m. altus, cum 
ramis paucis, gracilibus, patentibus; rami frugiferi uni- 
vel biarticulati. Folia in lobos quinque ad septem ovato- 
ellipticos profunde divisa, cum nectario subtus in nervo 
medio. Corolla infundibuliformis, fulva cum macula pur- 
purea in dimidio inferiore. Calyx post anthesin marces- 
cens, cum bracteolis linearibus in lobos lanceolatos tres 
vel quattuor divisis. Capsula circiter duplo longior quam 
latior, rostellata, tri- vel quadrilocularis, glandulis atris 
prominentibus maculata. Semina circiter duplo longiora 
quam latiora, atrofulva, glabra, stratu unico fibrarum 
fulvarum circiter 6 mm. longarum obtecta. 
Tyre: Plant grown in greenhouse, North Carolina State College, 
Raleigh, North Carolina, from seed collected by L. A. G. Barbosa at 
Monte do Trigo, near Tarrafal, Ilha de Santo Antao, Cape Verde Is- 
lands. Phillips & Clement 891 (U.S. Nat. Herb. ; Econ. Herb. Oakes 
Ames). 
Upright perennial shrub 1—2 m. tall; branches slender, 
flexuous, spreading, becoming glabrate in age, the young 
twigs dotted with darkly pigmented glands, strigose;: 
petioles 3-4 cm. long, sparsely strigose; leaves ca. £ cut 
into 5-7 ovate-elliptic lobes, stellate-pubescent above and 
below, an elongate-elliptic nectary on mid-vein 2-8 mm. 
long; fruiting branches usually 1—2 Jointed; pedicels 1-2 
cm. long, gland-dotted, strigose; corolla funnel-form, 
petals cream with a magenta spot covering lower half, 
sparsely gland-dotted over entire surface but glands more 
numerous along one side, stellate-pubescent on portion 
exposed in bud; staminal column ca. 1 cm. long, 0.5 em. 
wide, antheriferous throughout, unpigmented ; style pro- 
jecting $ length of androecium above uppermost anthers, 
sparsely gland-dotted, stigmas united to top: calyx 
cupulate, minutely stellate-pubescent, gland-dotted, 
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