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garden, some of which are named in Miller's own handwriting (see Plate, Herbaria 

 No. 31 A a plant which, it will be seen, has, like King's Improved (B), also s P eci - 

 got purple claws to the petals), and these may therefore be accepted as 

 supplementary types. A little later, a Mr. Millington sent to Sir Joseph 

 Banks a series of samples of this plant from Jamaica. These are named in 

 Driander's handwriting (who at the time was Sir Joseph Banks's private 

 secretary), so that their date may be accepted as approximately 1782. One 

 of these is named ' Vine Cotton,' another ' Persian Tree Cotton,' and a third 

 ' Nankeen Coloured Cotton.' Coming down to more recent dates, Rugel 

 collected this species in North Carolina in 1840, and his specimen (Herb. 

 Shuttleworth) is named G. herbaceum an error that was current for many 

 years in both Europe and America, that botanical name being given to all 

 short staple American cottons. Lastly, a sample (Herb. Miers) from 

 Coimbatore, India, is called ' New Orleans Cotton ' ; this is perhaps a 

 hybrid between G. hirsutum and G. purpurascens. 



The following are some of the more interesting examples in the Her- 

 barium of the Boyal Botanic Gardens, Kew : EUROPE, PERSIA, &c. : 

 'Albanicum Alterum, Cult.', Baldacci, n. 167; Aschabad, Transcaspian- 

 Persia, J. Freyn, n. 1,164. CHINA: Shanghai, ?W. B. Carles, n. 388; 

 Pakhoi, South China, G. M. H. Playfair, n. 102, (' This plant does not seem 

 to be cultivated or utilised in any way.' It is possibly a naturalised hybrid* 

 but possesses some of the characteristics of G. peruvianum). JAVA: Zol- 

 linger, n. 3,562. INDIA : United Provinces, Saharanpur, Hook. f. and T. T. 

 Jameson's and Thomson's specimens. AFRICA : Livingstone's Zambesi 

 Expedition, Kirk, n. 284 (the Tonje-mcvnga Cotton, found between Tette 

 and the coast) ; Gold Coast W. H. Johnson, n. in. (cultivated in ' Anum 

 Cotton Farm, introduced many years ago ') ; Egypt, Kordofan, Dr. Pfund, 

 n. 496. 



In the Cambridge University Herbarium there are two interesting speci- 

 mens of this plant, both collected by G. McCarthy, one in Carolina in 1885, 

 and the other at 'Eufaula in Alabama in 1888. Both are almost typical 

 G. hirsutum, and thus differ materially from the Upland cottons of to-day. 



In the Edinburgh Herbarium there is an extensive series of specimens 

 of this species (named G. arboreum, G. arborescens, G. vitifolium, G. peru- 

 vianum, G, cegyptiacum and G. barbadense), chiefly contributed by Dr. 

 Jameson from the Saharanpur Botanic Gardens, India ; in these the fruits 

 are mostly 4- never 5-celled. There is also in Edinburgh a further series 

 from the Saharanpur Botanic Gardens, in which the seeds have but an 

 imperfect fuzz, and the plants manifest other indications of being hybrids 

 approaching G. mexicanum. It is instructive to observe that many of the 

 sheets (of these two sets) are said to have been grown from Egyptian seed 

 or to be Egyptian cottons. But not one of them could for a moment be 

 mistaken for the abassi and mit afifi cottons of to-day. They have, as a 

 rule, large, completely fuzzy seeds, and the leaves are broad as in the 

 G. hirsutum x mexicanum Uplands of America. In only one example is 

 the fruit 3-celled, and that one has the seeds almost naked, but the leaves 

 are those of G. hirsutum. 



From the Herbarium of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, I 

 have had the extreme pleasure to receive an extensive series of Upland 

 cottons, some of which might perhaps be treated as forms of this species, 



