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WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



acuminate, caducous. Inflorescence short axillary shoots, one to three 

 flowered, much longer than the subtended leaf (f. 1), peduncle 2 to 3 inches 

 long, pedicels 1 inch, sub-glandular within the horseshoe-like attachment 

 of the bracteoles (f. 3) ; braeteoles ovate sub -rotund cordate, quite free from 

 each other, glands not visible within, membranous, turning red-brown 

 accrescent, woolly, especially on the long, narrow, almost tailed teeth- 

 Flowers medium-sized, bright yellow with purple claws, woolly on the 

 margins ; calyx open, loose, campanulate, devoid of any trace of teeth, 

 many-veined with rows of glands and a, very few hairs on the veins (f. 3). 

 Fruits ovate rotund acute, shorter than the bracteoles, 4-celled (f. 5) ; 

 seeds large, free, flattened on the face and with on this a strongly marked 

 oblique line (raphe) (f. 8), rounded otherwise and only slightly pointed 

 below, sparsely coated with an exceedingly short ( to ^ inch long), 

 minutely crumpled and closely compacted, golden- coloured floss (f. 6), not 

 referable to two layers (f. 7). 



California. Habitat. Lower California, and, according to Brewer and 

 Watson (I.e.), in Cerros Island as well. 



Speci- Citation of Specimens. Collected by Hinds (1841) at Magdalena Bay, 



mens. Lower California ; and by Barclay also in California, n. 3084 ; said to be a 

 shrub 3 feet high found in ravines, Magdalena Bay. 



In the Kew and British Museum Herbaria there are specimens 

 collected by Dr. Edward Palmer (1887), in Guaymas, Mexico, n. 244, of a 

 plant, possibly a distinct species, though closely allied to this, in which the 

 bracteoles are much smaller, and the leaves often 3-toothed on the apex and 

 almost quite glabrous. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



3. 0. KLOTZSCHIANUM, Andss., Enum. PL Insul. Galdpag. 

 in Kcmgl. Vet. Akad. Handl (1853), vol. LXXIV., 228; Walp., 

 Ann. Bot. iv., 309 ; Eobinson, FL Galdp. Is. (1902) (in Proc. Am. 

 Ac. Arts, xxxvin., Contr. from Gray Herb. 24, 174). 



Leaves rotund-cordate acuminate, entire, tomentose, with acl- 

 pressed hairs and pale coloured, one gland near the base of the 

 central nerve below; bracteoles quite free, broad ovate cordate, 

 deeply laciniate into 10-12 long narrow teeth, with prominent veins, 

 especially when young. 



A shrub twice the height of a man, having long spreading branches, the 

 twigs smooth, reddish brown, and minutely tomentose or velvety when 

 young. Leaves 2% inches long by 2 inches broad, cinereously tomentose, 

 gland dottings very obscure, stellately pubescent, especially below. Inflor- 

 escence axillary, lateral shoots with peduncle twice the length of the sub- 

 tended petiole, one to three flowered; bracteoles softly tomentose, broad, 

 deeply auriculate, scarcely ovate, the apex being rounded and deeply 

 laciniate, no glands on the pedicel nor within the bracteoles ; pedicels about 

 1 inch long, angled and furrowed. Flowers fairly large, 14 inches broad, 

 one-third exceeding the bracteoles in length, rotating to left ; corolla, pale 



