Gossypium] MALVACEAE. 51 
in length. — G. religiosum, Roxb., also of Gray, Bot. U, S, E. E. p. 179. 
— G. Sandwicense, Parlat. Sp. Coton: p. 37, tab. 6. — Varies with leaves 
glabrate above and distinctly punctate. — Mrs. wt bag 23. 
Along the seacoast here and there on all islands. Nat. sory a o» and «Huluhulu». 
Occurs also on the Viti Islands. In plants from Kauwnakakai! bavi , the deo 
elongates in the axis of a branch, with the flowers opposite to ys leaves. The 
unfit for cultivation on account of the short staple. 
G. religiosum, L., which grows on the islands of the Society group, differs in glabrate 
and larger leaves with a gland on the middle nerve, involucral bracts 1}/2—-2’ high and 
cut into pass paints opr lobes, an urceolate calyx with subulate teeth, a 4-valved cap- 
sule, and se which are easily separable from a yellowish wool. orm (G. Tahi- 
tense, , Pata ts not, to my sige ga ane cg on our group, although Mann 
(Enum. no. 43) enumerates it, besides 
G. drynarioides, Seem. in Fl. Vit. p. adno A small tree, 
sy: ft. high, with a thick gnarled trunk, gel Er shies mono- 
sperma in habit, woody in its last ramifications. Leaves on long petioles 
of 3—4‘, membranous, glabrous, pitted, but destitute of black dots, cordate 
and 7— 5 lobed, about 5‘ in diameter, the deltoid lobes 11/2‘ deep, the 
basal sinus iit open. Flowers single in the axils of the uppermost 
leaves, on stout peduncles of 1—2’, which bear at the middle a broadly 
sessile and obliquely clasping caducous ovate bract of 4—5“ in length. 
Invol. bracts broadly ovate to subcordate, obtuse, entire, 7—13-nerved, 
1—1!/2‘ long and 1‘ or more broad, glabrous, coriaceous. Calyx urceolate, 
truncate (the upper half carried away by the rising corolla?), 6—9“ high, 
thin scarious, distinctly punctate with black dots. Petals brick-red, 
obovate-oblong, entire, 3—4‘ long, silky outside, eminently ee with 
a black dot in each areole. Staminal column of same length, truncate 
or obsoletely 2—3-toothed at the apex, antheriferous in the upper third 
with short filaments. Style shortly exserted, clavate, 5-grooved. Ovary 
5-celled, each cell with 1 ascending ovum. Capsule ovoid, 1‘, thick — 
opening poked near the apex. Bonde obovoid, covered with a 
brownish tomentum. 
Imperfectly described by Seeman from a specimen in gt British Museum collected 
pecimens of this form I owe to the kind- 
western end of Molokai which 
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ness of Mr. R. Meyer, who overed three trees on the 
r. Nat. name: «Kokio» 
could not be found again on a subsequent visit a few years late 
8 var. — Bracts of involucre lanceolate, 1'!/2.—2' X '/2—1". 
ku and Koko Head. Two trees seen. 
flowers, the woody 
species is remar in the genus for its entire , red 
capsule, and single, shortly tome s It is ch to be feared that this a 
rat extinction, as it grows in — accessible “ cattle, = 
Tipe y r co! 
of — capsule they are retained an undue length of time. 
‘o the nearly related Order Bombaceae belong Ochroma Lagopus, Sw., and Bombaz 
tee: L., tall trees of cultivation 
