82 WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



G. ARBOREUM, Burm., Fl. Ind. (1768), 150 (inpart) ; G. RUBRUM, 

 Forsk., Fl. JEgypt.-Arab. (1775), 125; G. ARBOREUM, Lamk., 

 Encycl. n., 134; Cav., Diss. (1785-90), 311, t. 165; Poir., 

 Diet, des Scien. Nat. (1818), XL, 38-9 (excl. syn. Rheede) ; 

 DC., Prod. (1824) i., 456 (excl. syn. Rheede); Roxb., Fl. Ind. in. 

 (1832), 183; Wall, Cat. No. ISSla; Parlatore, Sp. del Cotoni 

 (1866), 23-29 (excl. syn. and plate); Royle, III Him. Bot., 

 99, t. 23, /. 2, & Cult. Cotton, in Ind., 144 (in part}; Wight, 

 Icon. PI. Ind. Or. i., t. 10 (in part) ; Maxwell Masters, in Oliver, 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. i., 211, also in Fl. Br. Ind. i., 347 (in part) ; 

 Todaro, Relaz. Cult, dei Cotoni (1877), 176-180, t. la; Aliotta, 

 Riv. Grit. Gen. Goss., 1903, 56-65 (in part) ; Gammie, 

 The Indian Cottons, 1905, 4-5 ; Diet. Econ. Prod, iv., 5-14. 

 Tree Cotton of India and Africa: Deo-kapds, Nurma, Manua, 

 Bajwara, Red Navsari, Ram-kapas, &c. 



Descrip- When dealing with the typical condition of the species it may 



tion. b e spoken of as a small tree or large shrub, with very slender, 



terete, often purple-coloured, and almost quite glabrous branches, 

 but with the younger parts sometimes more or less woolly. Leaves 

 in texture firm, smooth, distinctly cordate, two-thirds palmately 

 5-7-lobed, lobes oblong lanceolate, with often a supplementary 

 lobe (or tooth) within the lateral sinuses, margins reflexed, tips 

 with minute bristles, central vein only with a gland below (Plate 

 No. 8, f. 1). Inflorescence short abortive shoots ; bracteoles com- 

 paratively small, united below, ovate cordate, acute, entire or 

 occasionally toothed, purple-green. Flowers large, deep shining 

 purple, with darker patches on the claws and petals rotating to 

 left. Seeds large, irregular in form (f. 4), coarsely coated with 

 greenish-grey velvet (fuzz) below the firmly adhering white silky 

 floss ; in the wild states red coloured. (See Plates Nos. 7 and 8.) 



A perennial, usually from 6 to 10 feet in height, having long trailing 

 thin branches. Stems, and more especially the young branches, petioles, 

 peduncles, and bracteoles, of a deep glossy purple colour, a peculiarity 

 sometimes even possessed by the young leaves, especially on the under 

 surface. Leaves of a thick and leathery consistence, gland-dotted, sub- 

 glabrous (when dry sometimes appearing as if quite glabrous), or having 

 short, abortively stellate hairs on the blade, more especially the under 

 surface, and a few longer spreading hairs on the petioles and young shoots 

 (a greater degree of hairiness may be observed in association with other 

 departures, indicative of varietal, racial, or hybridisation forms) ; blade of 

 the leaf mostly 5-lobed (and in a manner which, when compared with the 



