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33. G. LANCEOLATUM, Tod., Bel Cult, del Cot. (1877-8) 185 t. 

 v.,f. 1; G HlBSUTUMvar. ft Parl, I.e. 43; G. HIRSUTUM VAB. 

 LANCEOLATUM, Aliotta, Biv. Grit. Gen. Goss. 80. 



A herbaceous pilose species with slender diffuse branches. Leaves with 

 long branch-like petioles, often longer than the lamina, which are lanceolate, 

 acuminate, vmiglandular and pinninerved; stipules sagittate. Bracteoles 

 large, broad, ovate, rotund, hairy, deeply cordate, joined below by a narrow 

 portion, deeply toothed above, teeth divaricate, tailed, longer than the corolla ; 

 capsule and seed not seen. 



Is there anything to support Aliotta's suggestion that this is the plant 

 found by Hernandez in Mexico? In the Florence Herbarium (Webb's 

 collections) there is a sample named by Todaro himself of which I have 

 recorded in my notes that it is a very distinct plant with extremely thin, 

 softly hairy, long lanceolate leaves, and the bracteoles longer than the flowers. 

 I am thus led to believe that, accepting the drawing furnished by the author 

 as denoting the type, this plant must be viewed as distinct from G. Schottii. 



Habitat. Mexico, growing by roadsides. 



34. G. MICROCARPUM, Tod., Hort. Bot. Pan. (1876), Vol. i.,p. 63, 

 t. 14, also Belaz. Cult, dei Cot. (1877) p. 181, t. xi./. 16; ?Nigro 

 Cotton, Labat, Nouv. Bel. de I'Afrique Occ. 1728, vol. in., pp. 262-9 

 t. 261 ; Porto Bico, Bohr., Cult, du Cot. &c. 1807, pp. 11, 64-7 ; 

 G. CONGESTUM, Miers, MS. in EM. ; lea Cotton, Spruce, Cult. 

 Cotton in N. Peru, 1864, p. 63-4 ; G. PERUVIANUM, Welw., Cat. 

 Af. PL pt. i. Hiern, 1896, p. 78. 



The Ashmouni Cotton of certain writers ; Eed Peruvian Cotton. 

 Descrip- Leaves pilose and ciliate, deeply cordate, palmate, lobes 5 or 



only 3, narrow linear (f. 1) ; flowers thick, tomentose, often 

 scarcely exceeding the bracteoles, which are nearly free to the base ; 

 calyx very large, wide, prominently 5-toothed ; fruit small, rotund 

 to ovate acuminate (f. 3) ; seeds semi-conglomerated (f. 3), large, 

 coarse, partially coated with a greenish or rufous coloured fuzz (f. 4) 

 and dirty white coarse harsh wool. (See Plate No. 36.) 



A detailed description may help to more fully isolate this species from 

 G. brasiliense and G. peruvianum : Stem round angled, purple coloured, 

 gland-warted, but otherwise quite glabrous. Leaves thick, leathery, sub- 

 glabrous above, pilose-tomentose below, ovate, sub-rotund cordate, 3-5 or 7, 

 palmisectly (sometimes almost pedatisectly) lobed, lobes ovate, linear, acute, 

 the lower pair spreading at right angles to the petiole, the others ascending 

 (as in G. vitifolium, to which in certain respects this plant has a close 

 affinity), a gland on one to three of the chief veins below, nerves and veins 

 very prominent ; stipules large, persistent, linear lanceolate. Inflores- 

 cence strong, rigid, one to two flowered lateral shoots, peduncle flattened and 

 angled, bearing one or two 3-lobed leaves ; bracteoles glabrous, very large, 



