296 WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



(non Linn.) in Mart., Fl. Bras, xn., pt. in., 583-4 (in part) ; 

 J. C. Branner, Cotton in the Empire of Brazil (see U.S. Dept r 

 Agri. Bull. Misc. n. 8), 1885 ; G. BELIGIOSUM, Heuze, Le PL 

 Indust., 1893, i., 144; G. peruvianum, Engler (in part Cav.) Die 

 Pflanz. Ost. Af., &c., 1825, p. 385; G. ACUMINATUM, Welwitsch, 

 Cat. Af. PI. pt. 1. (by Hiern), 1896, 79 ; G. CONGLOMERATUM, 

 Wiesner, Die Rohstoffe des Pflanz. 1903, n., 236 ; G. RELIGIOSUM, 

 Aliotta, Riv. Crit. Gen. Goss. (1903), 44-7 (in part); Kidney 

 Cotton, 0. F. Cook, Weevil-Resisting Adaptations of the Cotton 

 Plant (in U.S. Dept. Agri. Bull. No. 88, 1906, 66-7). 



Trade Chain, Kidney, Stone, Brazilian, Guiana, Essequibo, Berbiche,, 



Bahia, Pernambuco, and Coton-pierre Cottons. It is also the Costa 

 Bica, Ava, and Siam Cottons of certain writers. 



Ancient John Lerius, a Frenchman who lived in Brazil in 1557-8 and 



names. wrote a history of that country, tells us of the Bombasin cotton 

 shrubs, with seeds ' close joined and verie much pressed to- 

 gether after the form of a man's kidnie ' and which was 

 known to the Barbarians by the name of ameniiou. Gabriel 

 Scares de Souza (1570-87) speaks of Brazilian cotton as known 

 to the Natives by the name maniim ; Varnhagem calls it manyu ; 

 Claude d'Abbeville, a French missionary in Maranhao (1612-1614), 

 gives it the name amonyiom; Marcgraf (1648) calls the plant 

 he collected by the vernacular name of aminiiu. The Bugres 

 of S. Brazil have the name yxomtom; the Caynas amany-ri', the 

 Tupis amaniu and amaniju ; in the Amazonas Bruun-d ; in the 

 Upper Amazonas amanihu and by the Ticuna tribe tech. Branner, 

 who wrote a special report on the cotton cultivation of the Empire 

 of Brazil, mentions most of the above names, but adds from his 

 personal knowledge the fact that there are two indigenous and 

 one exotic cotton in Brazil. These are distinguished as crioulo 

 (kidney cotton, G. brasiliense), quebradinho (with free black seeds 

 ? G. vitifolium) and the exotic riqueza (=wealth-giving) with green 

 fuzzy seeds (? G. hirsutum or G. peruvianum). A specimen collected 

 by Miers in Central America bears the name quebradinho and is 

 G. brasiliense. Sir Walter Elliot calls G. brasiliense the paidi (gold) 

 patti or pamidi patti (=the wealth-giving) of South India, and 

 Mason says it is the wa-ku-la, but according to Burkill it is 

 themban-wa (ship cotton) of Burma. It is the ' Ava cotton,' ' Siam 

 cotton,' &c., but is not the true Siam cotton, though it is doubtless- 

 both the Guiana and the Brazilian cottons of Kohr. 



