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No. 15. GOSSYPIUM NANKING, MEYEN. 



(A) Specimen in Sloane Herb. B. M. (Pluk. Vol. 96, f. 62) is very possibly 

 this species; (B) Pluk. Aim. Phyt. t. 229, f. 1, prepared from tbe specimen A 

 flower purely imaginary : (C) leaf of the Indian Bani Cotton ; (D) Chinese 

 specimen of G. nanking proper ; (E) specimen grown at Washington from 

 Korean seed. 



