MALVACL.].. 1"! 



Leaves cordate oM.mg, acute- or abruptly acute, entire, glabrous, 

 13 cm. long, 10 cm. broud, long pL-tiolite, petioles 10 cm. long ; flowers in my 

 specimen subterminal, solitary, pedunculate. New to the Fomiosaii flora. 



9. Gossypium LINN. 



Dicholvnion* K < // to the Fonuo- '-:*. 



(l^i Bracts slightly dentate or entire G'j*i//a}ii Xankiwj. 



Bracts laciniate on the margin G. hci-l!':cn.nt. 



Gossypium herbaceum LINN. Sp. PI. ed-2, p. 975: Lou;. Fl. Coch- 

 inch. ed-WiLLD. p. 505 ; THUM;. Fl. Jap. p. 271 ; DC. Pivdr. I. p. 45G ; 

 MA>T. in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. p. 34G ; WIGHT Ic. Tl. Ind. Or. tt. !) 

 et 11 ; LEDED. Fl. Fioss. I. p. 438 : Foi;r.E> et HEM^L. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 

 88 ; HENRY List H. Formos. p. 21 ; 1x6 et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. Lutch. p. 

 343 : MATSUM. t-t HAYATA Euuni. I'l. Formos. p. 57. 



Gossypium rcliyio-mrn FiOXB. Fl. Ind. III. p. 185. 



Goxsypium indicum L.ur. ; DC. 1'ixxlr. I. p. 450 : Mio. Fl. Ind. Bat. pl-2. p. 

 02 : MKJ. rixl. Fl. Jap. p. 207 ; FKASCH. et SA\ - AT. Fnum. PI. Jap. I. p. 05. 

 Shizangaii, Kaisi. 



CultivatAl every where. 



Gossypyium Nanking MYEK, HAYATA Materials for a Flora of For- 

 mosa p. 48. 

 HAD. Nanto : Nankokei. 



DKTREB. 



I am following Sir GEOIIGE WATT^ determination who has m.ist 

 cordi;illy examined the plant at my request. 



10, Rotubax LINN. 



Bombax malabaricum DC. Trodr. I. p. 470 ; MAST, in HOOK. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. I. p. 340 : Foisr,K.s et Hi- MSI,. Tnd. Fl. Sin. I. p. 80 ; HENKY List 

 PI. Formos. p. 21 ; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 



HAD. Shiutikn, Tainan, Takoxv. 



Tropical Asia and America. 



