18 lYLViL TELLUR. 



R. B. sem. cinereo tomcntosa teretiuscula, 

 byssus elongato albo — South America, 7 feet 

 high, giving only one yearly crop of 2^ ounces 

 of cotton similar to that of the Guyana Cotton. 



58. Gossypium (Lanig.) isabelum Raf. sem. 

 rubrofusca tomentosa,teretiuscula, corona pilosa, 

 byssus flaveolus — Asiatic, cotton very fine of 

 Isabella yellow, but not very productive. 



59. Gossypium fLanig.) albescens Raf. 26 

 R. B. sem. ovata tota tomentosa non apiculata, 

 byssus albescens tenax — several varieties 1. 

 megaspermum, large seeds, cotton of a dirty 

 white, 4 ounces per tree, 2. rubescens, cotton 

 of a redish white color. 3 cayenense small seeds, 

 cotton worthless of a dirty white, very hard to 

 pick, wild at Cayenne. 



60. Gossypium (Lanig.) bicolor Raf. sem. 

 tomentosis ovatis nonnulis cinereis, nonnulis 

 viridis, byssus albo tenax — Trinidad, a singular 

 sp. by two kinds of seeds in the same pods, grey 

 and dark green, wrongly deemed a var. of last 

 by Rohr. cotton fine and white. 



61. Gossypium (Lanig) purpureum Raf. 27 

 R. B. sem. ovatis tomentosis pilosisque apicula- 

 tis, fol. calicibusq, purpureis byssus albo tenax — 

 Antilles and S. Amer. 7 feet high, only 1^ ounce 

 of cotton, petiols, nerves and twigs red. 



62. Gossypium (Lanig.) speciosum Raf. foL 

 lobis acutis, uniglandulosis, petalis rubro notatis, 

 sem, globosa tomentosa canescens, bysso tenax 

 — from India, small shrub, but with fine citron 

 flowers with a large red spot at base of petals, 

 capsules small, cotton very short whitish. Is it 

 the G. microcarpon ? 



63. Gossypium, (Lanig.) cambayense Raf. G. 

 religiosus var. 28 Rohr. B. fol. lobis subrotundis, 

 glandula sepe carens, petalis et sem. ut in 62. — - 



