VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. 



Tree Cotton Gossypium arboreum. 



The Gossypium Indicum, or Indian cotton, is 

 another species not very dissimilar to the last; it has 

 not a ligneous stem, and its branches are more 

 hairy, especially at their upper parts. The shape 

 of the leaf likewise somewhat differs from that be- 

 fore described, this being divided into three convex 

 lobes. The stem rises to the height of ten or twelve 

 feet, and continues in [full bearing during several 



