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(in Edinburgh) ; Porto Rico, Paul Sintenis, determined by Garcke, n. 3626 ; 

 also ex New York Bot. Gard., collected by Mr. and Mrs. Heller, n. 174 ; 

 St. Vincent (Windward Islands), by Hooker (in Glasgow Herb.). 



In the British Museum Herbarium, in addition to duplicates of some of 

 the above mentioned, the following may be added, some being of special 

 historic interest : WEST INDIES AND ANTILLES : Houstoun's specimen from 

 Jamaica (1730) ; Millington's samples from Barbados (named Rabbit-tail, 

 Pollard's Rose Cotton and Trinidad Cotton) ; Martinique, L. Hahn, n. 492 

 (1869). INDIA : Hove's Lymree and Mitampur plants (1787). AFEICA : 

 Angola : Welw., nn. 5,227, 5,228, 5,231, 5,233, and 5,234, mostly this species 

 rather than (as named) G. barbadense ; Ksessner, n. 611 (from Kili-mukei) 

 (1902). AMERICA : Brazil, Miers ; Bahia, Blanchet (ex. Shuttleworth's 

 Herb.), n. 95 ; Surinam, M. Berthoud-Coulon, n. 252 (1841) ; French 

 Guiana, Sagot (1858). MALAYA AND POLYNESIA : N. Borneo, Burbidge 

 (Veitch's Coll., 1877) ; Sandwich, Macrae (1825) ; Wight Herb., n. 177 (in 

 Br. Mus.), is nearer to G. peruvianum than to present species. In Wight 

 and Arnott's Herb, (the property of Glasgow University) the specimen 

 n. 177 is the present species, and doubtless suggested Wight, Illust., n. 27. 

 But on the same sheet there is mounted a specimen of G. hirsutnm, Linn., 

 that may have originated Wight, Illust., n. 28a, and which Wight calls 

 G. barbadense, Linn. 



In M. De Candolle's Herbarium at Geneva (in addition to duplicates of 

 some of the plants already mentioned), the following may be added : 

 French Guiana, Sagot, n. 1,268 ; Rio de Janeiro, Ponson, in 1828 ; Mar- 

 tinique, Hahn, n. 492 ; and Bahia, Blanchet, u. 246. 



Schumann (' Mart., Fl. Brazil, 1 xn., p. 585) observes that this species is 

 cultivated in Brazil. In support of this he cites among others the following 

 specimens : Pohl., n. 2,033 ; Peters, n. 259, Tamberlik ; in the province of 

 Ceara : Gardner, n. 1,463 ; in the province of Pernambuco : Forssell, n. 155 ; 

 in the province of Bahia: Blanchet, n. 246; beside the river S. Franc., 

 near Joazeiro : Widgren, n. 466 ; Andersson, n. 511 ; near Lagoa Santa : 

 Schenck, n. 2,080 ; in Dutch Guiana : Paramaribo, Regel, n. 968 and 969 ; 

 in the province of Columbia : Cauca ad Rio Dagua, Lehmann, n. 1,912 ; in 

 the Argentina, near San Lorenzo : Lorentz, n. 373 ; &c. 



I have quoted the above citation of specimens from Schumann to show 

 both the distribution of the species within Central and South America (as 

 manifested by specimens that I have not had the pleasure of personally 

 examining), and also, in some few instances, to exhibit special forms, such 

 as Gardner's, n. 1,463, which I certainly do not regard as being G. brasiliense 

 (see p. 168), as also others, which are donbtless G. peruvianum or G. micro- 

 carpum, and not, as Schumann supposed, examples of G. brasiliense. 



Nomenclature. We first obtain information of what there seems Early 

 no reason to doubt was this species, shortly after the discovery of 

 Brazil and in connection with that country. By the earlier travellers 

 it is spoken of as indigenous, and both wild and cultivated. It 

 began to be known in commercial circles about the middle of the 

 seventeenth century, but had even then been confused by botanists. 

 Piso, for example, used the plate prepared by Prosper Alpinus of 



