70 WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



It is a shrub 4 to 6 feet in height, uniformly and completely coated with 

 short hoary tomentum to such an extent as to almost cover up the black 

 gland-dots with which it is profusely besprinkled, but it is quite devoid of 

 the long villous hairs so commonly seen in this genus. Leaves thick, 

 leathery, measuring 1 to 3 inches each way, or only just a little broader 

 than the length of the petiole, less than half segmented into 3 (sometimes 

 5) lobes, base deeply cordate, lobes not constricted below, veins 5 thick, 

 prominent, very woolly. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, flowers on simple, 

 thick, angled peduncles (f. 1), (considerably snorter than the petioles), or, 

 near the extremity of the shoots, the flowers may be borne on short leafy 

 twigs, to 1 inch long; bracteoles thick, tomentose on both surfaces, all 

 equal in size and free from each other, but not clawed nor possessed of 

 extra-floral glands, ovate-oblong, slightly cordate acute 9 to 11 toothed 

 and veined, persistent on the fruit, but hardly accrescent. Flowers about 

 1$ inches long, sulphur yellow; corolla wide open, tomentose along the 

 outer margin and both on the outer and inner surfaces ; calyx tomentose, 

 large, loose, nigro-punctate, 10-veined, truncate or with 5 short crenate teeth, 

 accrescent and, though ruptured with the growth of the fruit, remains 

 embracing the lower half. Fruit very small, ovate-oblong, beaked (but 

 not so prominently as shown by Parlatore in his O. sandwicense), rough 

 and gland pitted on the outer surface, 3-4-celled and with 3-4 seeds in each 

 cell ; seed* relatively very large, irregular in shape, densely and profusely 

 coated with short dark rusty wool, not referable to two layers (corresponding 

 to the fuzz and floss of many cultured cottons). 



Hawaii. Habitat. This wild plant has apparently never been cultivated. 



It is indigenous to the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, and has by 

 mistake only been assigned to the Fiji Islands through its being 

 confused with G. religiosum, by Solander. 



Citation of Specimens. There are admirable examples of this plant in 

 the Kew, British Museum, Edinburgh and Geneva Herbaria. It is met with 

 usually along the coast, and is called Mao or Hulu-hulu. The most notable 

 examples examined by me are : Sandwich Islands : Mowee in 1825, 

 specimen coll. by McEae ; Oahu, 1865, by Hillebrand, n. 368 ; Mrs. Sinclair's 

 specimen, comm. to Kew in 1885 also her MS. drawing in Kew Library 

 (in which the calyx is truncate). There are in addition to these the 

 following specimens in the British Museum: ' Owhyhee,' NuttalTs type 

 specimen ; Menzies and D. Nelson ; and Mann and Brigham, n. 228, Oahu. 

 In the Cambridge Herbarium there is a specimen collected by McRae at 

 Karankua Bay, ' Owhyhee,' in 1825. In the Economic Herbarium of the 

 United States' Dept. of Agriculture, a specimen raised at Washington from 

 seed supplied by J. G. Smith from Honolulu. 



Nomenclature. Seemann was in error when he associated his 

 specimen n. 28, collected on the Kakiraki coast, Kadava, Fiji Islands, 

 with Nuttall's Sandwich Island species. As he very rightly observes, 

 bis Fiji plant is G. religwsum, Eoxb. (a form of G. hirsutum, Linn., 

 1 Sp. PI.'), but it has nothing whatever to do with G. tomentosum, Nttit. 



