50 MALVACEAE. [ Gossypium. 
diameter, glabrous. Peduncles as long as the petioles. Involucral bracts 
lanceolate, equalling the calyx, soon deciduous. Calyx truncate, 6“ long 
and as broad at the top. Petals obovate-oblong, 2‘, yellow, turning dark 
during the day. Capsule globose, 12—15” in diameter, almost woody 
and very tardily dehiscent. Seeds 4”, villous at the base and angles. 
_ since populneus, L. — H. bacciferus, Forst. — Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 10. 
ong the a in and near villages. Hawaiian name: «Milo», the same as in Tahiti, 
Soave and Tong: «Mulo» in the Viti Islands. _ The tree ranges from Macesnerey: to the 
Hawaiian Islan Tahiti 
it was regar mao a as sacred, Bate Peg be A cesstioin in morais or temples, “and its Siew? were 
employed in religious cere: ireumstance which would account for the wide 
: a 3 
Kamehameha I. at Waikiki, one may fairly infer that it was held in high esteem. 
8. GOSSYPIUM, L. 
Involucral bracts 3, large, generally cordate, free. Calyx truncate or 
shortly 5-cleft. Piasaioa column naked at the truncate apex, antheriferous 
outside. Ovary 3—5-celled, each cell with 1 or more ovules. Style undi- 
vided, clavate, 3—5-grooved. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds subglobose or 
angular, woolly or tomentose. Albumen thin or none. Cotyledons much 
folded, enclosing with their auricles the erect radicle. — Tall herbs or 
shrubs, or trees. Leaves lobed, rarely entire. Flowers large, yellow or 
feaaiue Leaves, flowers and seevinddes generally dotted with black specks. 
A genus of few species, several of which, subject to great variation, have been culti- 
vated since early historical gi for the sake of the cotton-wool which envelopes the 
seeds. The two fo sg are truly indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands, but besides 
there are or have been in nena G. Barbadense, L., with its smooth-seeded variety, 
the Sea-Island Cont: and “6. Peruvianum, Cay. 
A spreading shrub, petals eh ge Ca ae ta Lio! ited : : : 1. G. tomentosum. 
A small tree, petals brick-red, 2. G. drynarioides. 
1, G. tomentosum , pes in ion. FL Vit. p. 22, — A spreading 
hrub, 4—6 ms high, hoary with a soft white tomentum. Leaves thick, 
orbicular in outline, cut about half way into 3—5 ovate-acute lobes, 
cordate, with narrow sinus and round sweeping base, tomentose on both 
faces and faintly speckled with black dots, 2—4‘ each way, on petioles 
of 1—2‘. Flowers axillary on a peduncle of 1—2’, which bears at its 
end a reduced leaf and a pedicel of '/,—1’. Invol. bracts ovate and 
slightly cordate, 10—12’, cut into 5—11 sharp serratures or lobes. 
alyx truncate, 3“ long, with 10—12 longitudinal nerves, tomentose and 
dotted, as are the bracts. Petals obovate, 1/2! , sulphur-colored, puberulous 
outside, minutely dotted, connected at the base. Staminal column en- 
with a 3-grooved stigma. Capsule ovoid, 8—10, coriaceous, pitted, 3- 
valved, each cell holding 3—4 separable seeds which are enveloped in 
a firmly adhering short tawny wool, the fibres of which measure 3—6” 
