96 WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



G. HEBBACEUM, Burm., Fl. Ind. (1768), 150 (in part); 

 G. ABBOBEUM, Miller, Gard. Diet., 8th ed. (1768), n. 3 Tree 

 Cotton, ivith a yellow flower; G. HIBSUTUM, Hill, Veget. Syst. 

 (1769), xv., 19, /. 4; TBANQUEBAB COTTON, Bohr, Observ. 

 sur la Cult, du Cot. (1807), 62-64; G. HEBBACEUM, Boxb., 

 Fl Ind. in., 184, and PL Coast Corom. (1819), in., 66, t. 269, 

 also Bengal and Dacca Cotton MSS., draivings (here reproduced, 

 Plates Nos. 11 and 12) ; G. VIBIDESCENS, Buch.-Ham., MS., 

 both varieties (n. 1553 herbaceum and n. 1552 hirsutum) ; 

 Boyle, HI. Him. Bot., t. 23, /. 1 ; G. OLIGOSPEBMUM, Mac/., 

 FL Jam. (1837), i., 74 ; G. PUBESCENS, Splitg., MSS. Vriese in 

 Nederl. Kruidk Arch. i. (1848), 334 ; G. INDICUM, Boyle, Cotton 

 in India (1851), 142, t. IL, also 148, t. m.,/. 1; G. ABBOBEUM, 

 ParL, Le Sp. dei Cotoni, 1866 (in part), 25-9, t. i. (excellent 

 picture of this variety) : G. BOXBUBGHII (p. 45) et G. INTEB- 

 MEDIUM, Tod. (p. 41), in Osser, su Tal. Sp. di Cot. ; Mull., Walp. 

 Ann. Bot. vn. (1868), 411 ; G. ABBOBEUM, Oliver, FL Trop. Africa 

 i., 210-2; G. HEBBACEUM, Maxwell T. Masters, Fl. Br. Ind. (in 

 part) i., 346 ; G. HEBBACEUM, Duthie and Fuller, Field and 

 Garden Crops of India i. (1882), 75-8, t. 18 ; G. PUBESCENS, 

 Splitg., Mart., FL Braz. xn., pt. m., 1886-92, 586; G. AB- 

 BOBEUM, Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. m., n. 6 (1895), 52, 

 /. 25 (after ParL) ; G. NEGLECTUM, P. V. Subbiah, Bull. n. 15 

 (1901) of Dept. Agri. U.P. Ind., 26, t. 1 ; G. BOSEUM, Gammie, 

 Class. Ind. Cot., 1903, 5, t. vi.; ALIOTTA, Biv. Grit. Gen. 

 Goss., 25 (would seem to regard this as hybrid of G. bar- 

 badense x G. arboreum) ; G. NEGLECTUM, Gammie, Ind. Cot., 

 y er _ 1905, 7 (most of varieties and sub-varieties mentioned), t. vn. 



names. ^ n commerce the staple of this plant is known as ' Bengal 



cotton.' In the vernaculars of India it bears an extensive series 

 of names, being in Bengal and the United Provinces, Central India, 

 Eajputana, the Panjab and Bombay indicated by words or expres- 

 sions that denote its introduction or describe some peculiarity. 

 Judged of by its vernacular names, therefore, it would seem to be 

 of comparatively recent introduction : Bilatee or vilayati, (foreign, 

 see below, under var. rosea) Khandeshi; kateli (from the beak or 

 thorn on the seed) ; mathi (from the resemblance of the leaves to 

 those of Phaseolus aconitifolius, &c.). Buchanan-Hamilton collected 

 it at Nathpur, Bengal, in 1810, where it was called tipki. The 

 name jari was possibly, as Professor Middleton suggests, originally 



