324 A FLORA OF MANILA 
1. T. lampas (Cav.) Dalz. & Gibs. Bulacbulacan (Tag.). 
An erect slightly branched shrub 2 to 3 m high. Leaves ovate, 10 to 
20 em long, somewhat 3-lobed or nearly entire, green and nearly glabrous 
on the upper surface, somewhat stellate-pubescent beneath, base broad, 
cordate, apex acute or acuminate. Peduncles 3-flowered, axillary and 
terminal, forming a somewhat leafy panicle. Calyx green, of 5 subulate 
lobes connate below the middle. Corolla campanulate, 6 to 8 cm long, 
yellow, the center dark-purple. Capsule ovoid, about 3 em long, 4-, some- 
what 5-valved. (FI. Filip. pl. 355.) 
In dry open places, San Juan del Monte, near Fort McKinley, etc., fl. 
Oct._Jan.; scattered in the Philippines, possibly introduced. India to Ma- 
laya and eastern Africa. 
2. T. populnea (L.) Corr. Banago (Tag.). 
A tree reaching a height of about 10 m, the branchlets, under surface 
of the leaves etc., covered with small’ brownish scales. Leaves glossy, 
broadly ovate, sharply acuminate, entire, base very broad, slightly cor- 
date, 7-nerved, 8 to 15 em long. Flowers axillary, solitary, long-peduncled. 
Calyx truncate, about 1.5 cm in diameter. Corolla yellow, dark-purple 
inside at the base, about 5 cm long, the lobes strongly imbricate, turning 
purplish in age. Capsule depressed-globose, 2 to 8 cm in diameter. (FI. 
Filip. pl. 247.) 
Occasional near the sea, fl. most of the year; along the strand through- 
out the Philippines. Tropical Asia and Africa through Malaya to Poly- 
nesia. 
11. GOSSYPIUM Linnaeus 
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, mostly erect, branched. Leaves 
mostly palmate, 3- to several-lobed. Flowers large, axillary, mostly yellow, 
often purple at the base inside. SBracteoles 3, large, leafy, cordate, lobed- 
laciniate. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate or 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate, 
the petals convolute or spreading. Ovary 5-celled. Capsule loculicidally 
3- to 5-valved. Seeds densely clothed with a fuzz or with woolly hairs, 
or both. (Said to be derived from an Arabian word signifying “softness.”) 
Species about 42, tropics of both hemispheres, many cultivated, about 4 
species in the Philippines, all manifestly introduced. 
Leaves 3-lobed, up to 12 cm long; corolla about 4 cm long; seeds free, 
covered with a dense fuzz in addition to the wool............ 1. G. hirsutum 
Leaves 3- to 5-lobed, up to 25 cm long; corolla 6 to 8 cm long; seeds con- 
glomerate, glabrous, woolly but with no fuzz................ 2. G. brasiliense 
*1. G. HIRSUTUM L. Bulac (Tag.); Algodon (Sp.); Cotton. 
An erect, branched, suffrutescent herb 0.5 to 1.5 m high, the younger 
parts sparingly villous or stellate-villous. Leaves broadly ovate, 5 to 12 
em long the upper ones usually entire, the lower ones 3-lobed in the upper 
one-half, the lobes broadly ovate, triangular-acuminate, base cordate, the 
lower surface conspicuously black-punctate. Flowers yellow, in age turn- 
ing pinkish. Bracteoles three, free, green, base deeply cordate, margins 
fimbriate-cleft. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla about 4 em long. Fruit ovoid, 
about 3.5 em long, beaked, 3- or 4-celled. Seeds free from each other, 
densely covered with a fine fuzz in addition to the floss. 
Singalon, cultivated, probably raised from American seeds, fl. May—June. 
Widely distributed in tropical and warm countries, but of very recent 
introduction in the Philippines. 
