74 TH A LA Ml FLORAE. 



HAS. Near Rockfort. 



FL. April November. 



A shrub, 4-5 feet in height ; branches villous with stellated 

 hairs. Leaves cordate ; the upper ones entire, the lower ones 

 3-lobed with the lobes acuminate, 3-nerved, pubescent above, 

 and villous with stellated hairs uniglandulose and nigro-papil- 

 lose along the,nerves beneath : petiole stellato-villous. Stipules 

 lanceolato-falcate. Peduncle 3-gonal. Leaflets of the in- 

 volucellum 3, united at the base, attenuate-acuminate and la- 

 ciniated towards the apex. Calyx irregularly toothed. Petals 

 pale yellow, with a purple stain at the claw. Capsule 4- valved : 

 seeds 5 in each cell, free, ovate, acute : cotton white. 



There is a considerable resemblance between this and G. 

 HIBSUTUM ; but the latter is hirsute, and the capsule, according 

 to Swartz, is 3-celled, and the seeds, according to Willdenow, 

 adherent. 



5. Gossypium oligospermum. Few-seeded Cotton. 

 Hirsute, leaves 5-lobed acuminate undulated pub- 

 escent above stellato-hirsute and uni- (rarely bi-) 

 glandulose beneath, leaflets of the involucellum sub- 

 trifid and inciso-dentate at the apex, capsule 4- (rarely 

 3-) celled, seeds 4 in each cell. 



HAB. Waste places, Liguanea. 



FL. November January, and after rains. 



A shrub, about 1 2 feet in height : branches angulose, hirsute 

 with stellated hairs. Leaves 5-lobed, with the lobes lanceolate, 

 acuminate, undulated, subglabrous above, stellato-hispid and 

 1-2-glandulose beneath : petiole hairy. Stipules deciduous. 

 Flowers subterminal, peduncled. Calycine teeth acute. Petals 

 twice the length of the involucellum, pale yellow with an obscure 

 purple stain at the claw. Stamens numerous. Stigmata ag- 

 glutinated. Capsule little more than an inch in length, usually 

 4-valved, and with the cells 4-seeded : cotton white. 



6. * Gossypium hirsutum. Hairy Cotton. 



Hirsute, upper leaves undivided cordate, lower 

 ones 3-^5-lobed uniglandulose beneath, leaflets of the 

 involucellum 3-toothed at the apex, capsule 3-valved, 

 seeds green adherent. 



Wittd. Sp. III. 805. 



HAB. ? 



FL. ? 



It is remarkable that I should not have met with the third 

 and sixth of these species, which were, it would appear, 

 common at one time in this Island, It is probable that they 

 may have exhibited, when in cultivation, different characters, 



