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Porto Bico by Paul Sintenis, determined by Garcke, n. 547 (with the 

 remark ' Salinus de Cabo-Bojo in sylvis litoralibus '). San Domingo, 

 collected by V. Jacquemont in 1827 (named G. hirsutum ? Pers. Ex. herb. 

 J. Gay, leaves almost hairy). AMERICA: Brazil, Major Trevor Clarke 

 (confer with remarks under G. hirsutum). 



In the British Museum Herbarium there is an interesting series which 

 embraces duplicates of some of the examples above mentioned, and in addi- 

 tion the following : CHINA : herb. Hance, n. 32,295. INDIA : Dacca, coll. by 

 C. B. Clarke, n. 6,770 ; Coimbatore, n. 15,367 ; Wall. Cat., n. 1,875, Bhutan 

 (there are two plants on the sheet, the other being ? G. brasiliense) ; lastly a 

 specimen from Tranquebar. POLYNESIA : Tahiti, specimen by Banks and 

 Solander collected during Cook's first voyage, named G. religiosum and 

 published as such by Seemann in Fl. Vit.) ; Tahiti, Barclay, specimen n. 

 3,275, collected in 1840 ; Vieillard, n. 130 from New Caledonia. AFRICA : 

 West Coast, Welw., nn. 5,223, 5,226, and 5,235 ; Zanzibar, Stewart, collected 

 1862. WEST INDIES: Porto Bico, P. Sintenis, n. 3,717 (named G. her- 

 baceum). 



In the Edinburgh Herbarium there are examples in addition to some of 

 the above that may be specially mentioned : INDIA : Buchanan Hamilton, 

 n. 1,550 (which he names G. nigrum Ic&ve, and observes Colitur in Cam- 

 rupee hortis rarius. The sample was collected at Sibgunj, East Bengal, on 

 November 21, 1809. Also specimens from Canara, Hohenack. Arzn. u. 

 Handelspfl. n. 449. WEST INDIES : Dominica, n. 578. CENTRAL AFRICA : 

 Schweinfurth, n. 587 ; and lastly a specimen ex herb. Bdi. C. Alexander, 

 named G, siamense. 



In the Cambridge University Herbarium there are several samples (ex 

 herb. Lindley) of this plant, more especially two with red-coloured flosses 

 which are spoken of as ' Bed Siam Cotton,' or the species from which 

 1 nanking is manufactured.' But , it would appear both these were con- 

 tributed by Wight from Coimbatore in Madras, and one of them is named 

 G. religiosum. 



In the Calcutta Herbarium there is a fairly extensive series of plants 

 that fall under this species, such as the specimens ex herb. Heyne placed 

 under Wallich Cat. n. 1,875 several of these are marked H. B. C. ; ex herb. 

 S. Kurz, a specimen grown at Seebpore and a further sample of the same 

 named G. acuminatum ; another specimen marked H. B. C. is named G. 

 religiosum and has MaH-coloured wool ; from Assam there is a specimen 

 collected by (?) Dr. McClelland in 1846 ; from Madras a specimen collected 

 by T. Kistnasawmy Naidoo, 1884 ; from the Nilghiri hills collected by B. 

 Schmid ; a somewhat remarkable plant that looks not unlike a form of G. 

 mexicanum, collected by Col. D. Prain at Minikoy in the Laccadive Islands 

 (H.M. I.M. ' Investigator,' 1891) ; lastly a specimen from (?) Mauritius named 

 G. religiosum. 



In the Herbarium B.E.P., India many examples such as nn. 1,777 

 Verawal, growing in a hedge, Baroda, n. 1,888, &c., &c. 



In the Economic Herbarium, Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, a specimen recorded as ' Wild Cotton 

 growing near the sub-tropical laboratory, Miami.' 



M. Casimer de Candolle's Herbarium, Geneva, contains a specimen, 

 n. 210, collected by Zollinger in Java ; Welw. Herb. Angola, n. 5,235. 



