E*' '<lu. Horb. Fnnytf, ' 



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I. I 2. 13. 



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No. 17. GOSSYPIUM NANKING, MEYEN., VAR. RUBICUNDA, 



(A) Specimen in Linn. Herb. Lond. named by Linnaeus himself as 

 ' 2 prcestantissimum ' ; (B) Griffith's Kabul plant in Kew ; (C) a Koxburghian 

 specimen in Kew, possibly the type. 



