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28. G. HIBSTrTUM, IAnn., Sp. PL 2nd Ed. (1763) ii., 975 (nan 

 Herb, et won Syst. Nat.) ; founded on Miller, Gard. Diet. 1th Ed. 

 (1759), n. 4, also Sth Ed. 1768 ; G. LATIFOLIUM, Murray, Comm. 

 Soc. Beg. Gott. (1776) vn., 22-25, t. i. ; G. HIBSUTUM (in 

 part), Swartz, Kongl. Veten. Akad. Handl. (1790) XL, N.S., 

 22-23 (exl. most synn. also the expression ' seeds adhering ') ; 

 Green-seeded cotton, Edwards, Hist. Jamaica 1793, n., 269 ; G. 

 HIBSUTUM (in part), Willd., in Linn., Sp. PI. &th Ed. (1800), 

 805 (excl. synn. and description of seeds adherent), also G. 

 LATIFOLIUM, Willd., I.e. 806 ; ? Muselin Cotton, Bohr, Observ. 

 sur la Cult, du Cot. 1807, 57-61; G. HIBSUTUM (in part), 

 Poir., Diet, des Scien. Nat. 1818, vol. XL, 37-8 ; G. HIB- 

 SUTUM, Tussac, Fl. Anil. 1818, vol. n., 67 ; G. LATIFOLIUM, 

 DC., Prod. 1824, i., 456 ; G. HIBSUTUM, Boxb., Fl. Ind. 

 m. (1832), 187 (describes the seeds as free) ; Macfadyen, 

 Fl. Jam. (1837) i., 74-5 ; G. BABBADENSE, Wight, III. Ind. 

 Bot. i. (1840), 57-64, t. 28c, Upland Georgian or Short 

 Staple ; G. HIBSUTUM, Upland Georgian Cotton, Boyle, Cotton 

 in India, 1851, 138 (in part), t. in., /. 4; Georgian, also 

 Egyptian Cotton grown in Peru, Spruce, Cult, of Cotton N. Peru, 

 1864, 64-7 ; G. HIBSUTUM, Parl, Sp. dei Cot. (1866) 41, t. v., 

 (but exclude, some synn.) ; G. HEBBACEUM (in part) Oliver, Fl. 

 Trop. Af. 1868 i., 211 ; G. HIBSUTUM, Todaro, Eelaz. dei Cot. 

 210 ; G. HIBSUTUM (in part) Vesque, Traite de Bot. Agri. et 

 Ind. 476 ; Schumann, in Martius, Fl. Brazil, xn., pt. in., 581 ; 

 Heuze, Le PI. Indust. 1893, i., 3rd. ed. 142 ; G. HEBBACEUM, var. 

 hirsuta, Engler and Prantl, Pflanz. in., n. 6 (1895), 51 /. 23 

 (after Parl.) ; G. HIBSUTUM, L. (in part) Engler, Die Pflanz. 

 Ost afr. p. 386 ; Biqueza Cotton, according to Branner, Empire 

 Brazil, U.S.A. Dept. Agri. Misc. n. 8, 1885, >. 30; G. HIBSUTUM, 

 Aliotta, Biv. Grit. Gen. Goss. (exclude many synn.) 76-85 ; 

 G. HEBBACEUM, Small, Fl. Southeastern, U.S.A., 1903, 778 ; 

 G. HIBSUTUM, Mill, in Gammie, Ind. Cot. 1905, 8. 



Green-seeded cotton of former times ; subsequently known as 

 New Orleans and Georgian, Short Staple American, Saw-ginned 

 Dharwar, Kadayo of Bhavnagar, &c., the Tonje-manga of Zambesi. 



Under cultivation this plant varies in many directions. It is Descrip- 

 usually a coarse, stunted, much-branched, erect, greenish-red, dust- 

 coated bush, the last-mentioned peculiarity being a consequence of 

 the abundance, length and strength of the hairs with which the 



