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and O. neglectum on same sheet, also a specimen, very hairy, that seems a 

 cross between G. neglectum and O. Nanking ; Keenan, Cachar, 1874 (a semi- 

 glabrous example, with on label ' appeared wild at Eungpore,' seems as if an 

 acclimatised form of var. assamica) ; Kookee cotton, Cachar ; Eoxburghian 

 specimens named G. hirsutum and G. herbaceum, both on one sheet, ex herb. 

 Forsyth (see Plate No. 10, A and B) ; Wall. Cat., n. 1881b (ex herb. Russell) ; 

 Hooker, n. 65 (from Sikkim, alt. 4,000 feet, 1848) ; Griffith, n. 99 (see ' It. Not.,' 

 p. 8). CHINA: Fortune's n. 116a is possibly a hybrid with G. Nanking. 

 Africa : Fisher's n. 197 (in the valley of Fatine in 1837 approximates to 

 var. sanguinea staple much superior to the corresponding Indian plant). 

 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, collected by H. Cuming in 1841 (n. 1647) (duplicate in 

 Camb. Herb.). AMERICA: Jenman, n. 5785, from British Guiana, also a 

 sample supplied by the U.S. Dept. of Agri. (see below). 



In the British Museum : Sloane Herb. (Miller), (original locality not 

 stated, but said to be ' gathered in Chelsea Garden '), vol. 228, f. 20; also 

 a specimen named G. hirsutum in Eoxb.'s own writing, with on reverse of 

 sheet, ' Ind. Or. Dr. Eoxb. (ex America, introduced) ' (see Plate No. 10 C) ; 

 ex herb. Russell, Ind. Or. ; var. ? approaching neglecta, Banks and Solander, 

 JAVA, 1770-71. 



In the Edinburgh Herbarium the following are worthy of special record, 

 even though mentioned already : From Bengal : Dr. Francis (Buchanan) 

 Hamilton's samples, n. 1553, from Nathpur, Bengal (named ' Gossypium 

 (Tipki) viridescens, herbaceum '), n. 1552, from same locality (named ' G. viri- 

 descens, hirsutum ') ; an excellent example from Dr. Wright (ex herb. Balfour); 

 and from Shanghai, China, a hybrid collected by W. E. Carles in 1881. 



In the Cambridge University Herbarium the following specimens are 

 interesting : India : collected by ' Catherine Lyell,' in 1851, cult, between 

 Agra and Meerut ; a Serampore specimen, by ' W. G.' (= Griffith). 



In De Candolle's Herbarium, Geneva, there are a few examples of this 

 variety, such as Wight, n. 179, and one collected by Fortune, in China, in 

 1846 perhaps a hybrid neglecta x nankvng. 



In the Economic Herbarium, United States Department of Agriculture 

 (selection of samples sent for my inspection), there is a specimen of this 

 variety described as grown from Japanese seed (n. 606). 



In the Herbarium E.E.P., Calcutta, a series some of which approach near 

 to typical G. arboreum : nn. 1747-8, Bhavnagar, Kathiawar ; 1780-3, from 

 Verawal ; 1793, Mangrol ; and 1794, Eanpuri cotton from Mangrol ; also 

 specimens from Poona and Kirkee Farm, nn. 21,814 (jari) ; 21,895 (deshi, 

 Ambala) ; 21,896 (nurma, of Multan) ; 22,006 (Cuttack) and 22,010 (won of 

 Saugor) ; Ttatel and belaiti, cult, at Saharanpur Botanic Garden. 



Bheede's Nomenclature. In point of historic sequence, the earliest botanic 



Malabar reference to this plant would appear to be that in the ' Hortus 

 cotton. 



Malabaricus ' (1686), thus associating it with India, the headquarters 



of its present-day cultivation. Kheede there speaks of it as a shrub, 

 10 to 12 feet in height, found growing in sandy places. But as if to 

 remove the possibility of its being supposed to be G. arboreum, he 

 carefully describes the long narrow segments of its smooth soft 



