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1 have accordingly to leave this theme in a very imperfect con- 

 dition, but when it has been written fully by others in the future, it 

 will be interesting to contrast with Eohr's forms of G. vitifolium 

 those of modern cultivation. From what has been said, however, it 

 would appear fairly certain that a complete change has taken place ; 

 in other words that most of the plants described by Eohr very 

 possibly no longer exist. The following note, abstracted from 

 Schumann's account of this species (' Mart., Fl. Brazil,' xn., pt. in., 

 p. 583), may therefore be usefully added as denoting the centres of 

 production in South America, and it may be observed that although South 

 he does not call the plant Sea Island cotton, his plate (t. 114 of 

 G. barbadense) is much nearer to the Sea Island type than to most 

 of the forms of G. vitifolium of other writers. 



I have seen it, says Schumann, in the province of Pernambuco, 

 near Beberibe (Schenck, n. 4,116, collected in the province of Minas 

 Ge'raes ; Widgren, n. 1,332, in the province of S. Paulo Serra de 

 Caracol ; Mos6n. n. 1,121, near Eio de Janeiro ; Niederlein, n. 33, in 

 Venezuela, near Caracas, &c.). He then adds that it is cultivated 

 especially in the islands of the Antilles and in Central America, 

 more rarely in South America and in the tropical regions of the Old 

 World. 



40. G. BARBADENSE, Linn., Hort. Upsal i. (1748), 204 ; Sp. PL 

 1st ed. n. (1753), p. 693, 2nd ed. (1763), p. 975 ; Plukenet, Aim. 

 JBot. (1696), vol. IL, 172 & Phyt. t. 188, f. i. (excl. all syn.) ; Miller, 

 Gard. Diet. 8th. ed. (1768), n. 2; Lamk., Encycl. Meth. Bot., 1786, 

 n., 134 ; Cav., Diss. (1785), p. 315 ; Swartz, Kongl. Vetensk. 

 Akad., Handl., XL, n.s. (1790) 20-5 ; Willd., Linn. Sp. PL, th ed. 

 (1800), in. 806 ; Poir., Diet, des Scien. Nat., 1818, xi., 38 ; DC., 

 Prod., 1824, i.. 456 (excl. syn. Boxb.) ; Descourtilz, Fl. des Antilles 

 (1827), iv., 209 t. 278 ; Mac/., Fl. Jam. (1837), i., 73 ; Wight, III. 

 Ind. Bot. (1840), i., 57-64, t. 28 B. ; Sea Island (in part), Boyle, 

 Cotton in India, 1851, p. 145-7, t. in., /. 3 ; Triana & Planchon, 

 Fl. Novo-Granatensis (1862), p. 170-1 ; Grisebach, Fl. British W. 

 Indies (1864), 86; Sea Island Cotton, Spruce, Cult, of Cotton in 

 N. Peru, 1864, p. 69; Parl, Sp. dei Coton. (1866), p. 48 (in part), 

 t. in. ; Tod., Belaz. Cult, dei Cot., p. 234 (in part) ; C. Mull., 

 Walp., Ann. Bot., vn. (1868), 414 (follows Todaro and gives two 

 varieties, viz., Jumelianum and degeneratum) ; Hemsley, Biol. 

 Centrali-Americana (1879-88), i., 123 ; Max. T. Masters, Fl. Br. 



