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Egypt, called Bamia Cotton, which Sir Joseph Hooker regards as a 

 variety of G. Barbadense. The Bamia Cotton Bush grows 8 to 10 

 feet high, ripens (at Galveston) fruit in four or five months, and 

 produces 2,500 Ibs. cotton and seed per acre. It is remarkable for 

 its long simple branches, heavily fruited from top to bottom. Its 

 cotton is pale yellow. 



Gossypium herbaceum, Linne.* 



Scinde, Cabul, and other parts of tropical and sub-tropical Asia. 

 Much cultivated in the Mediterranean countries. Perennial. 

 Leaves short-lobed. Petals yellow. Seeds disconnected, after 

 removal of the cotton fibre grey-velvety. Distinguished and illus- 

 trated by Parlatore as a species, regarded by Seeman as a variety 

 of G. arboreum. Staple longer than in the latter kind, white 

 opaque, not easily seceding. Even this species, though supposed to 

 be herbaceous, will attain a height of 1 2 feet. The root is a power- 

 ful emmenagogue. A variety with tawny fibre furnishes the 

 Nankin cotton. 



Gossypium hirsutum, Linne* 



Upland or Short-staple Cotton. Tropical America, cultivated most 

 extensively in the United States, Southern European and many 

 other countries. Perennial. Seeds brownish green, disconnected, 

 after the removal of the cotton-fibre greenish velvety. Staple 

 white, almost of a silky lustre, not easily separable. A portion 

 of the Queensland cotton is obtained from this species. It neither 

 requires the coast-tracts nor the highly attentive culture of G. 

 Barbadense. 



Gossypium religiosum, Linne.* (G. Peruvianum, Cavan.) 



Tropical South America. Kidney Cotton, Peruvian or Brazilian 

 Cotton. Leaves long-lobed. Petals yellow. Seeds black, con- 

 nected. The cotton is of a very long staple, white, somewhat silky, 

 and easily seceding from the seeds. A tawny variety occurs. This 

 is the tallest of all cotton bushes, and it is probably this species 

 which occurs in the valleys of the Ajides as a small tree, bearing its 

 cotton while frosts whiten the ground around. 



Gossypium Taitense, Parlatore. (G. religiosum, Banks and Solander.) 

 In several islands of the Pacific Ocean. A shrub. Petals white. 

 Seeds disconnected, glabrous after.the removal/^ the fulvous cotton- 

 fibre, which secedes not with readiness. 



Gossypium tomentosum, NuttalL* (G. Sandvicense, Parlatore; 



G. religiosum, A. Gray.) 



Hawaai. Perennial. Petals yellow. Seeds disconnected, after 

 the removal of the tawny cotton-fibre fulvous velvety, not easily 

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