116 \7CT. MALVACE.^. 



sprinkled \^itli black dotp : stipules | in. long, lanceolate. Pedicels 

 axillary, jointed, l-floA\ered. Involucial bracts up to 1 in. long, oblong- 

 elliptic, not or scarcely cordate at base, ] almately nerved, sprinkled like 

 the calyx ^vitll black dots, deeply laciniate : stgmeiils 8-12, linear- 

 lanccolale, with rounded sinuses. Calyx yV ^^' ^ong ; loles short, 

 triangular at base, very acute. Corolla 1 iu. long, yellow with purple 

 base; petals toothed. Staminal-tube antheriferous all ihe way down ; 

 anthers reniform. Capsules 3-5-valved ; valves mucronate. Seeds 

 wedge-shaped, cottony ; cotton yellowish, adherent and close appressed 

 to the seeds, giving them a silky appearance before being pulled out, 

 without underlying down. Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 20 ; "Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v." 11 (1S97) p. 128; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 39. 

 G. obtiisifolium, Stocks, 469, in Herb. Kew. ; Dalz. MS. in Herb. Kew. ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 21. G. herhacemv, Todaro, Cult. Cot. p. 132. — Plowers : 

 Dec, Yeen, Hiraciundi-kdpas, 



This appears to be the only species in which the involucral bracts are 

 not distinctly cordate. 



SixD : *S7o(7l>-, 4G9 (labelled G. vltusifoliiim) iu Iltrb. Kew.!; Dahell (similarly 

 labelled) iu Herb. Kew. ! ; very abundant at Moach, near Karachi, CooJce ! 



Stocks (n. 469, Herb. Kew.) remarks that it is " cimte. wild on Umestone 

 Jiilh." This has been interpreted to mean that the plant grows on rods, 

 which is far from being the case. It is very abundant on an extensive 

 plain at iVIoach, near Karachi. The writer, some years ago, planted in 

 the small botanical garden attached to the College of Science at Poona, 

 seeds of G. Stocksii collected by him on this plain. The plants grew 

 luxuriantly, sho\\ing a strong tendency to become climbers, or at least 

 ramblers. 



2. Gossypium herbaceum, XniH. ySyj. P/'. (1753) p. 693. Annual 

 or perennial ; stems erect, more or less hairy. Leaves divided to the 

 middle, cordate, ui=ually with a gland on the midrib beneath, 3-5- (some- 

 times 7-) lobed ; lobes broadly o\ate, acuminate, shortly mucronate, 

 more or less hairy: petiohs twice as long as the pedicels; stipules 

 linear-lanceolate. Involucral bracts ovate obtuse, not gashed below the 

 middle, slightly connate below, the entire portion subrotund. Calyx 

 truncate or obsoletely crenulate, much shorter than the involucre. 

 Corolla yellow with purple base ; petals obovate, cuneate. Capsules 

 ovoid-globose, mucronate ; cells 6-7-seeded. Seeds 6-7, ovoid, with 

 white cotton overlying a greyish firmly adherent down. Fl. B. I, v. 1, 

 p. 346 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 8 ; talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 20 ; Todaro, 

 Cult. Cot. p. 131, t. 4, figs. A, B, C, et t. 11, fig. 13 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 4, p. 25. 



The species (/. herhacevin proper, according to Todaro, does not occur 

 in India. 



Vab. 1. Wicjhtiannm. Shrubby ; stems erect, .somewhat hairy. 

 Leaves, when young, clothed with short thick closely stellate hairs, 

 ovate-rotund, almost obsoletely cordate, 3-5- (rarely 7-) lobed ; lobes 

 ovate-ollong, acute, constricted at the ba^e into the I'ounded sinus, 

 w hicli in the young leaves rises up as a fold ; stipules on the pedicels 

 almost ovate, the others linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Pedicels erect in 

 flower, recurved in fiuit, .{ the length of the petioles. Involucial bracts 



