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mann's time many writers have urged the advantages of cotton- 

 growing in general and of Sea Island in particular, but it cannot be 

 said that much progress has been made, except that the conviction 

 seems to have gained in strength that the best results are likely to be 

 attained with the indigenous in preference to the foreign stocks. 



42. G. BRASILIENSE, Macf., FL Jam. (1837), vol. i. p. 72 ; Ameniiou 

 and Bombasin of John Lerius, ] Hist. Brazil (1557) apud Purchas, 

 iv., 1333 ; Aminiiu, Marcgraf, Hist. PI. Bras, (apud Pisonem 

 1648), 59 ; Piso, Nat. Hist, utriusq^le Ind. 1658, 186 except plate, 

 which is G. arboreum; Bambagia arborea di Pernambuco, 

 Zanoni, Istoria Bot. (1675), 40-44, t. 16; G. FBUTESCENS 

 ANNUUM, <&c., Plukenet, Aim. Bot. (1696), 172, also Phyt. t. 188, 

 /. 2 (this plate was originally cited by Linn., Sp. PL, 1st ed., i. 511, 

 as an illustration of Bombax religiosum, hence possibly G. religi- 

 osum of some authors) ; G. BBASILIANUM, Sloane, PI. Ins. Jam. 

 (1696), 156-60 (in part) ; G. HEBBA FLOBE CAMPANULATO, 

 Morison, PI. Hist. Univers., Oxon., 1699, 517; G. FBU- 

 TESCENS ANNUUM, dc., Philip Miller, Gard. Diet. 1st ed. (1731), 

 n. 3 ; G. CAULE DECUMBENTE, Linn., Hort. Cliff (1737), 350 (in 

 part) ; G. BELIGIOSUM, Lamk., (non. Linn.) Encycl. Supp. (1786), 

 135 (in part) ; Cav., Diss., 313 (in part Linn.) ; Kidney Cotton, 

 Edwards, Hist. Br. Col. (Jamaica) 1793, n., 268-71 (species v.) ; 

 G. BELIGIOSUM, Swartz, (nonLinn.), Kongl. Veten. Akad. Handl. 

 (1790), XL, 24 ; Willd., Linn., Sp. PL 4th ed., 1800, 805 (non 

 Linn.) ; Guiana and Brazilian Cottons, Bohr, Obser. sur la Cult. 

 du Coton, 1807, 31-37; Kidney Cotton, Koster, Travels in 

 Brazil, 1816, 365-9; G. LAPIDEUM, Tussac, FL Anil. (1818), 

 ii., 67; G. ABBOBEUM, Vellozo, (Arrab.), FL Flum. vn., 

 (1827) t. 49 (leaves represented as serrated) ; G. ACUMINATUM^ 

 Boxb., Hort., Beng. (1814) 5l,also FL Ind. in., (1832), 186 and MS. 

 drawing n. 1,598 (wrongly named, G. vitifolium, see reproduction 

 here given, Plate No. 50) ; G. ACUMINATUM, Wight, III. Ind. 

 Bot. -i. (1840) t. 27, 57-64; Binon or Kidney Cotton, Spruce, 

 Cult, in N. Peru, 69 ; G. PEBUVIANUM, Boyle, Cotton in India 

 (in part), 149-50 and plate ; G. IMBBICATUM, Vaupell, Cot. of 

 Gujarat ; G. BELIGIOSUM, ParL, (non Linn.), Sp. dei Cot. 1866, 

 54 t. 4 (admirable picture but excl. all synn.) ; G. PEBUVIANUM, 

 Seem., (non Cav.), FL Vit. (1865), 21-22; G. BBASILIENSE, 

 Mac/., Tod. Belaz. Cult. Cot., 265-67, t. ix.,and G.BACEMOSUM, 

 Tod. (non Poir.) I.e. t. xn., /. 35 ; G. BELIGIOSUM, Schumann, 



