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month by month throughout the year, but the plantation put down 

 in November, 1787, did the best. In describing the leaves of this 

 plant Eohr uses the expression that they are convex, a remark per- 

 haps intended to denote the abrupt termination in three short teeth 

 arching outwards and upwards. It is a perennial, and has a remark- 

 able straggling habit. In a further paragraph I return to the use 

 Eohr suggests (see page 334), of this plant as a stock to give in 

 hybridisation the propertyjof a silky readily separable floss. (Cf. with 

 Branner's quebradinho cotton, p. 309.) 



Sadebeck (' Kulturgewachse der deutschen Kolonien,' pp. 304-10) Polynesia, 

 gives a detailed account of cotton and cotton cultivation in the German 

 Colonies. It would seem probable that the present species is the 

 plant dealt with for the most part, though Sadebeck urges attention 

 to be given to Sea Island cotton (cf. Isert, ' Reise nach Guinea,' 

 Kopenhagen, 1788). In this connection it may be added that it is 

 somewhat curious that while German writers commend the long 

 staple cottons as most worthy of consideration, Germany should be 

 the most important foreign market for Indian low grade and short 

 staple cotton. 



39. G. VITIFOLIUM, LamJc., Encycl. Meth. Bot. (1786) n., p. 135 

 (excl. syn. Pluk., Aim. t. 188, /. 2, added doubtfully by Lamk.) ; 

 Ichcaxihuitl of Ximenes (according to Piso, De Med. Bras. n. 60), 

 1615 ; Ychcaxihuitl of Hernandez, Nov. PL Hist. (1651), p. 308, 

 also ? illustration ; Xylon arboreum, Merian, Surinaamse Insect. 

 (1679), t. 10 (leaves a little too deeply lobed) ; Pere Labat, Nouv. 

 Voy. aux Isles de I'Amer. 1724, i., pt. 2, pp. 125-31 ; G. LATI- 

 FOLIUM, R^^mphius, Herb. Amb. iv. (1750), p. 37, t. xm. (leaves 

 a little too deeply lobed, also excl. syn.), (it is somewhat significant 

 that Roxburgh refrained from making any reference to that plate) ; 

 G. VITIFOLIUM, Cav., Diss., p. 311, t. 166 (excl. syn. Pluk., and 

 G. glabrum, Lamk.) ; Willd., Linn., Sp. PL 4th ed. (1800), 

 in., p. 804 (excl. syn. Pluk.) ; Guiana, Rohr, Observ. sur la Cult, 

 du Coton, 1807, pp. 7, 31-4 ; G. BABBADENSE, Bot. Reg. (1815), 

 t. 84 ; G. TRICUSPIDATUM, Tussac, Fl. Ant. 1818, vol. n., t. 17 

 only ; G. VITIFOLIUM, Poir., Diet, des Sciences Nat., vol. XL, p. 39 

 (excl. syn.) ; G. VITIFOLIUM, in part DC., Prod. 1824, i., 456 ; 

 G. VITIFOLIUM, Saint-Hilaire, FL Bras, merid. 1825, i., p. 254 

 (excl. syn. Marcg.) ; G. BABBADENSE, Hooker & Arnott, FL of 

 Beechey's Voy. (Society Islands) 1841, p. 60; G. VITIFOLIUM, 

 Richard, Tent. FL Abyss. 1847, i.. p. 64; G. VITIFOLIUM, Royle, 



