338 MALVACE^. Cienfuegosia. 



durandia Texana, Buckley, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861, 450. — Texas, Gonzales, Drummond, 

 Corpus Christi, Heller, and lower Rio Grande, 6'en. Eaton. (Also S. Brazil and Paraguay, 

 Morong.) • 



C* heteroph^lla, Garcke, 1. c. Shrubby, with slender spreading branches, almost gla- 

 brous : leaves from oval to linear-lanceolate and linear, entire, or some coarsely 3-5-tootlied, 

 equalled or surpassed by the peduncle, this clavate at summit : involucel of very few and 

 minute subulate bractlets or nearly obsolete : calyx dark-dotted, 5-parted : petals half inch 

 long, yellow with purple base : stigmas and valves of capsule 3 or 4 ; seeds few, densely 

 woolly. — Fugosia heterophylla, Spach, Hist. Veg. iii. 397 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4218 ; Chapm. 

 Fl. ed. 2, 609. Eedoutea heterophylla, Vent. 1. c. ; DC. 1. c. 457. — Keys of Florida, where 

 first coll. by Blodgett. (W. Ind., S. Am.) 



23. INGENHOtJZIA, DC. {Dr. John Ingenhousz, distinguished vege- 

 table physiologist.) — Prodr. i. 474. llmrberia, Gray, PI. Thurb. 308; Torr. 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. 40, t. 6. ( Bractlets of involucel not cordate, as inadvertently 

 stated in Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 209.) 



I. triloba, DC. 1. c. Suffrutescent perennial, 4 to 10 feet high, glabrous throughout, with 

 slender branches : leaves 3-parted or some pedately 5-parted into lanceolate acuminate entire 

 divisions, or uppermost entire and lanceolate, slender-petioled, black-dotted as also branchlets : 

 stipules small and very caducous : peduncles axillary and above subcorymbose : petals white 

 turning rose-color, dark-dotted, inch long: capsule half inch long. — A. DC. Caiques des 

 Dess. p. 6, note. Thiirberia thespesioides. Gray, 1. c. Gossypium Thurberi, Todaro, I'rodr. 

 Gossyp. 7, & Rel. Cult. Coton. 120. — Caiions of S. Arizona. (Adjacent States of Mexico; 

 first rediscovered by Thurber.) 



24. GOSS"^PIUM, L. Cotton. (The late Latin name of Cotton plant.) 

 — Tropical herbs or shrubs, cult, as annuals in warm-temjjerate regions, of a 

 very uncertain number of ill-defined species ; ours probably two, which have been 

 intermixed by crossing, having palmately 3-5-lobed leaves and corolla sulphur- 

 color or whiter, changing to rose-color at or before fading. — Syst. Nat. ed. 1, 

 & Gen. no. 559 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 209.^ 



G. hekbAceum, L. (Upland Cotton.) Herbaceous as cultivated, either pubescent or gla- 

 brous : leaves with broadly ovate lobes : bractlets of the involucel roundish, much shorter 

 than the corolla : capsule globular ; seeds with a close persistent wool under the long cotton. 

 — Spec. ii. 693. — Cultivated through S. Atlantic States, &c. ; and a form of it {G. religio- 

 sum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 185, Nankin Cotton) with tawny cotton, frutescent and run wild 

 on the coast of Florida and Texas, probably from W. Indies. 



G. Barbadense, L. 1. c. Larger, from herbaceous to shrubby : leaves deeper cleft and with 

 longer more tapering lobes : bractlets of the involucel usually longer and more incised : 

 petals with a deep crimson spot at base : capsule la.ger, ovoid and pointed ; seeds smooth 

 and naked when separated from the long cotton. — Cult, on the coast, as Sea-island Cotton, 

 also upland. Of American origin. 



ORDER XXVII. STERCULIACE^. 



By A. Gray; the genus Nephropetalum by B. L. Robinson. 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs (chiefly tropical or subtropical) , with general characters 

 of Malvaceae, except that the anthers are of two (or three) parallel cells and ex- 



1 Add Schumann in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ah. 6, 51. An extended scientific and 

 economic treatment of the cultivated species of cotton has recently' been issued from the Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations, U. S. Dept. Agric, as Bull. 33. 



