SECTION III: G. PUNCTATUM 169 



TATUM, Hooker and Webb, PL Cape de Verd Islands in Niger 

 Flora, 1849, p. 107 ; G. BARBADENSE, Hook, et Benth., Flora 

 Nigritiana in Niger FL p. 229 ; G. BARBADENSE (in part) Oliver, 

 FL Trop. Af. 1868, vol. i. p. 210; Q. PUNCTATUM, Tod., Eel. dei 

 Cult. Cot. p. 198 ; G. CAESPITOSUM, Tod., I.e. p. 201 ; G. RHOBII 

 (Rohrii) Tod., p. 242; G. JAMAICENSE, Tod., 237; G. PUNC- 

 TATUM, Welivitsch, Cat. Af. PL 1896, pt. i., by Hiern, p. 78 (in 

 part), also G. MARITIMUM, Hiern, I.e. 78, inpart ; G. PUNCTATUM, 

 Henry, in L'Agri. Pratique des pays chauds, vol. in. pp. 46, 187, 

 308, 441, 596, 718 ; vol. iv. pp. 80, 235. 



A wild (or at least acclimatised and ferine) cotton, from which Cultivated 

 very possibly has been developed G. hirsutum (or many of the short forms - 

 staple cottons of the United States, &c.). It is the wild cotton of 

 Alabama, Costa Eica, Jamaica, CuraQao, as also of Senegal, Nigeria, 

 Angola, &c. Is also the Mogul cotton of Arizona, and the Hindi 

 Weed of Egypt. It occasionally exists as a cultivated plant (e.g. the 

 Molango, the Texas Wool, King's Improved, dc. of the United States, 

 and the N'Dargua of Senegambia), but it forms in that case an 

 assemblage of stocks which as a rule are of lower value than the 

 parallel series placed under G. hirsutum, though they are often 

 specially suited to the countries and conditions of their cultivation. 



Shoots, young leaves and bracteoles stellately villous, the hairs Descrip- 

 usually.long and spreading, but becoming less abundant on maturity, tion - 

 conspicuously punctate (No. 28, A 2) ; leaves, upper, ovate cordate, 

 entire, slightly longer than broad, 3- or imperfectly 5-nerved, middle 

 nerve only with a large excavated gland below (A 2), lower leaves 

 one-third segmented on the extremity into 3 (sometimes only 2, 

 more rarely 5) ovate deltoid acuminate lobes ; bracteoles ovate acute 

 auricled, teeth fimbriately villous ; calyx large, loose, truncate, entire, 

 crenulate, or with 5 to 10 often large triangular, irregular, or even 

 tailed teeth (A3 and Bl), more or less ciliate on the margin, other- 

 wise glabrous ; fruit ovate, suddenly and sharply beaked, mostly 

 3-celled (A 4) ; seeds large, irregular, coarsely coated with rusty- 

 coloured fuzz (or under velvet) and a liberal layer of soft silky floss. 

 (See Plates Nos. 27 and 28). 



A woody shrub, twigs quite round, with long, spreading hairs, often 

 tufted and stellate. Leaves pubescent above, villous below, 1 to 3 inches 

 by 1 to 2 inches, those on the flowering shoots ^ to f inch long, mostly 

 3-lobed, lobes not constricted below, veins 3-5 thick flat, the middle one 

 only with a long coarse gland near the base ; petiole prominently gland- 



