156 WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



Pomet, Hist. Drug., 1694 (Eng. transl, 1712), i., 153-4, t. 54, /. 50 ; 

 Volkamer, PL Norib. (1700), 195 (in part) ; Boerhaave, Index 

 PL Hort. Acad. Lugd-Batav. (1720), 2, Pt. i., 73-4 ; Philip Miller, 

 Gard. Diet., 1st ed. (1731), No. 1 ; Linnaus, Hort. Cliff. (1737), 

 350 (excluding synn. of Sloane and Marcgraf) ; Linn., Hort. Ups. 

 (1748), 203 (in part) ; Linn., Sp. PL 2nd (1763) and 3rd ed. 

 (1764), ii., 975, inpart (exclude Bumphius) ; Murray, J. A., Prod. 

 Stirp. Gott. (1770), 170; o. ABBOBEUM, Forsk., FL ^gypt.-Arab. 

 (1775), 125; G. HEBBACEUM, Lamarck, Encycl. (1786), n., 133, 

 No. 1 ; Cavanilles, Diss. (1785-90), 310, t. 164, /. 2 (not good, 

 too hairy, and resembles more an Indian or African cultivated 

 cotton); Linn., Sp. PL, th ed., by Willd. (1800), 803 (except 

 synn. under Hort. Cliff, and Hort. Ups.) ; Poiret, Diet, des Scien. 

 Nat. (1818), vol. XL, 37-60; De Candolk, Prod. (1824), i., 456 

 (excl. syn. Eoxb.) ; ZenTcer and Schenk., Waarenk., n. (1832), 

 53-67 ; Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg., in. (1834), 388 ; Tenore, Boyal 

 Asiatic Soc., 1839, p. 98 ; Torrey and Gray, FL N. Am. (1838- 

 40), 230; Darlington, Agri. Bot., Philadelphia (1847), 17; 

 G. ? PUNCTATUM, Eichard, Tent. FL Abyss., i. (1847), 63 ; De 

 Candolle, Bot. Geogr. (1855), n., 971-2 ; Parlatore, Sp. dei Cot. 

 (1866) (in part), 31-36, t. n. ; also Flora Italiana (1872), v., 20 ; 

 Schlosser and Vukotinovic, Flora Croatica (1857), 180 ; Todaro, 

 Eelaz. Cult, dei Cot. 131-40, t. iv., ff. a, b, and c ; Heuze, Le PL 

 Ind. i. (1893), 142; Engler and Prantl, Pflanzwnf. in., n. 6 

 (1895), 51, /. 22 (after ParL) ; Aliotta, Rev. Grit. Gen. Goss. 

 (1903) (in part), 66-75. 



Syrian, Levant, Maltese, Arabian, and some of the short-staple 

 Levant 

 cotton. North American cottons. Is the Goza of Afghanistan and Khorasan. 



D rf Herbaceous annual, sparsely hairy, and often becoming glabrous, 



tion. or nearly so, with maturity. Leaves leathery, and prominently 



reticulate, deeply cordate, less than half-cut into 5-7 broad ovate- 

 rotund, suddenly acute, or apiculate (ogee-shaped) lobes, below 

 distinctly pilose, especially along the veins, the central of which 

 runs through the others into the petiole, and bears midway 

 a distinct gland below (f.2). Bracteoles large, green - coloured, 

 broadly ovate-rotund, obtuse, only very slightly united at the 

 bottom, but profoundly cordate, gashed across the top into 7 to 9 

 fairly long teeth. Flowers not very large, yellow, with purple 

 claws, and rotating to right; calyx large, loose, undulate, and 



