MALVACEAE. 



2^9 



Upper Tapanahoni River, near Pontoetoe : Versteeg 867 (fl. Sept.") 

 Paramaribo : Kegel 968 and 969 (fl. Aug.) ; Went 330 (fl. Octob.) 

 Commewyne River: Focke 393. 

 Vernacular name: >Peru-katoen". 

 Tropical America. 



Qossypium pubescens Splitg. Mss. ; de Vriese Ned. Kruidk. Archief I. 

 1848. p 334- 

 Paramaribo, cultivated in gardens: Splitgerber 985 H. L. B. 905, 237— 2 

 and 3 (fl. May). 



