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Plants of the Punjab. 
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SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATH Lospgap LBAVES. 
Gossypium 
herbaceum, 
Cotton, 
Kapas. 
MALVACES. 
F. B. I. 1. 346. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes- Buller). 
Gossypium 
barbadense, 
MALVACES. 
F. B. 1.1. 347. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Gossypium 
arboreum, 
MALVACES. 
BBM. 17347, 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Jatropha cureas, 
Baliospermum 
axillare, ~ 
PHDALS UNITED. 
medium size, cultivated, hairy or nearly smooth; 
leaves heart-shaped, 8- to 7-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, 
long-pointed, long-stalked, stipules ovate-lanceolate, 
margin smooth or toothed ; flowers yellow with a purple 
centre or all yellow or all purple on axillary, joint- 
ed, single-flowered stalks, bracteoles 8, large, leafy, 
heart-shaped, not divided below the middle, calyx cup- 
shaped, petals 5, spreading, staminal tube 5-toothed, 
style with 5 stigmas ; capsule ovate, 3-5 valved, seeds 5-7 
in each cell, ovoid, cotton white, rarely brownish, 
adherent to the seeds and overlying a greenish down. This 
plant is of Indian origin and is cultivated to yield cotton. 
medium size, branches and leaves black dotted, 
branches purple; leaves 3-5 lobed, lobes oblong, long- 
pointed, nearly smooth, long-stalked, stipules linear- 
lanceolate ; flowers yellow with a purple spot, on thick 
stalks, axillary, jointed, single flowered, bracteoles 8, 
very large, deeply cut, leafy, cordate, calyx as in last species, 
petals with one margin within and one without the next 
one, staminal tube and styles like the last species ; capsule 
oval, long-pointed, 3-5-celled, seeds black, covered with 
easily separable white or brownish cotton. This plant, 
as its name implies, was introduced from America, and is 
grown to yield cotton. Y 
large, perennial, branches purple with scattered 
hairs ; leaves nearly smooth, deeply 5-7 lobed, lobes linear- 
oblong, contracted at the base, long-stalked, stipules sword- 
shaped ; flowers large, purple, rarely white on axillary, 
jointed, single flowered stalks, bracteoles 3, large, heart- 
shaped, ovate, pointed, leafy, almost undivided, calyx 
as in the last species, petals spreading, staminal tube and 
style as in the last species ; capsule about 1 in. long 
oblong-pointed, seeds covered with adhering white eotion 
over a dense green down. ‘This plant is of Indian origin 
and only grown to a limited extent in gardens chiefly round 
temples. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
PRTALS NONE. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
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