338 MALYACE.E. Cienfueyosia. 



durandia Texana, Buckley, Proc. Acad. Pliilad. 1861,450. — Texas, Gonzales, Drummond, 

 Corpas Christi, Heller, aud lower Rio Graude, Gen. Eutun. (Also S. Brazil and Paraguay, 

 Moromj.) 

 C* heterophylla, Garcke, 1. c. Shrubby, with slender spreading branches, almost gla- 

 brous : leaves ironi oval to linear-lanceolate and linear, entire, or some coarsely 3-5-toothed, 

 etjualled or .surpassed by the peduncle, this clavate at summit : involucel of very few aud 

 minute subulate bracelets or nearly obsolete : calyx dark-dotted, 5-parted : petals half inch 

 long, yellow with purple base : stigmas and valves of capsule 3 or 4 ; seeds few, densely 

 woolly. — Fugosia hetetophj/lla, Spach, Hist. Veg. iii. 397 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4218 ; Chapm. 

 Fl. ed. 2, 609. Redoutea helerophi/lla, Yeut. 1. c. ; DC. 1. c. 457. — Keys of Florida, where 

 first coll. by Blodc/ett. (W. lud., S. Am.) 



23. INGENHOtJZIA, DC. (Br. John Ingenhousz, distinguished vege- 

 table physiologist.) — Prodr. i. 474. I'Imvberia, Gray, PI. Thurb. 308; Torr. 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. 40, t. 6. (Bractlets of involucel not cordate, as inadvertently 

 stated in Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 209.) 



I. triloba, DC. 1. c. Suffrutescent perennial, 4 to 10 feet high, glabrous througliout, with 

 .slender branches : leaves 3-parted or some pedately 5-parted into lanceolate acuminate entire 

 divisions, or uppermost entire and lanceolate, slender-petioled, black-dotted as also branchlets : 

 stipules small and very caducous : peduncles axillary and above subcorymbose : petals wliite 

 turning rose-color, dark-dotted, inch long: capsule half inch long. — A. DC. Cah^ues des 

 Dess. p. 6, note. Thurheria thespesioides, Gray, 1. c. Gossypium Tliurberi, Todaro, I'rodr. 

 Gossyp. 7, & Rel. Cult. Coton. 120. — Canons of S. Arizona. (Adjacent States of Mexico; 

 first rediscovered by Thuj-ber.) 



24. GOSStTIUM, L. Cotton. (The late Latin name of Cotton plant.) 

 — Tropical herbs or shrubs, cult, as annuals in warm-temperate regions, of a 

 very uncertain number of ill-defined species ; ours probably two, which have been 

 intermixed by crossing, having palmately 3-o-lobed leaves and corolla sulphur- 

 color or whiter, changing to rose-color at or before fading. — Syst. Nat. ed. 1, 

 & Gen. no. 559 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 209.^ 



G. herbAcedm, L. (Upland Cotton.) Herbaceous as cultivated, either pubescent or gla- 

 brous : leaves with broadly ovate lobes : bractlets of the involucel roundish, much shorter 

 than the corolla : capsule globular ; seeds with a close persistent wool under the long cotton. 

 — Spec. ii. 693. — Cultivated through S. Atlantic States, &c. ; and a form of it (G. i-eligio- 

 sum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 185, Nankin Cotton) with tawny cotton, frutescent and run wild 

 on the coast of Florida and Texas, probably from W. Indies. 



G. Barbadense, L. 1. c. Larger, from herbaceous to shrubby : leaves deeper cleft and with 

 longer more tapering lobes : bractlets of the involucel usually longer and more incised : 

 petals with a deep crimson spot at base : capsule larger, ovoid and pointed ; seeds smooth 

 and naked when separated from the long cotton. — Cult, on the coast, as Sea-island Cotton, 

 also upland. Of American origin. 



ORDER XXVII. STERCULIACE^. 



By A. Gray; the genus Nephropetalum by B. L. Robinson. 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs (chiefly tropical or subtropical), with general characters 

 of Malvacece, except that the anthers are of two (or three) parallel cells and ex- 



1 Add Schumann in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 6, 51. An extended scientific and 

 economic treatment of the cultivated species of cotton has recently been issued from the Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations, U. S. Dept. Agric, as Bull. 33. 



