a 
= 
ms 
15 
11. T. Poputnea. w. & A. 197, Hibiscus populneus. Rox. Flora. 3. p, 
“190. H. populnoides. Rox, Flora, 3, p. 191. Rheed. Mal. 1. ¢. 29. Ainslie. 
& Mat. Ind, 2. p. 333. 
he common Bendy tree; native also of Guinea and the Society Islands. 
= The wood is used for making rollers and other purposes where closeness of 
© grain is required; the fruit abounds ina yellow pigment which might per- 
> haps be turned to some account. ‘ 
= 
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56, GOSSYPIUM. Lt. Monodelphia Polyandria. 
PF A name applied by Plinyto a shrub which grewin upper Egypt, and bore 
é 
cotton.— Lam. é. 586. Gaert.é, 134. 
112, G. AtBum. w.& a, 198. G. herbaceum, Rox. Flora. 3. p. 184. Rheed. 
Mal. 1. ¢ 31-—Hamilt. in Linn, Trans, (3. p, 494.—G. obtusifolium. Rox, 
Flora, 3. p. 183. Rox. Cor.3, ¢. 269.—Wight’s Icones. Part 1. No. 198.— 
Ainslie, Mat. Ind. 2. p. 282. 
The Cotton plant; extensively cultivated in Guzerat and some partsof the 
Deccan. Cotton as is well known, forms the staple article of the commerce 
of Bombay. 
118. G. Nicrum. w. & a. 139. G. Barbadense. Wight’s Lllust. No. 4. ¢, 
28.—in gardens Bombay, Bourbon, and Sea Island Cotton,—The variety, 
G. Arboreum. Linn,—is generally to be met with about houses and in gar- 
dens, as an ornamental shrub. 
114. G. RELIGIosum, w. & A. 200. 
Des Kapoos.— Ek sheng Kapoos, 
_A shrub; grows at a temple in Giergaum road Bombay,—Rutnagiree. 
(Mr. Elphinstone.) 
The habit of thisisyery different from that of the last two, and it seems to 
be a distinct species. 
115. G. VAUPELLII. G. 
Heergoonda- Kapoos.—a shrub 8 or 10 feet high; grows at Sidhpoor in Gu- 
zerat, It appears to be quite distinct from the other three Indian species 
(varieties?) of Gossypium.—(Mr. Vaupell.) 
57. ABUTILON. w. & a. Monodelphia Polyandria. : 
The Greek name of the mulberry; applied to this genus on account of a re- 
semblance in the leaves, Lam. ¢. 578. Gacrt. ¢. 135. 
116. A. PoLyANDRuM. w. & a, 202. Sida Polyandria. Rox. Flora. 3. p- 
173. Burm. Ind. ¢. 47. f. 1,—annual, erect; leaves alternate, long petiol- 
ed, cordate, dentate; flowers large yellow, with the petals reflexed; appear in 
December and January.—hills about Parr; at Kandalla &e. 
117, A. Inpicum. w, & A, 205. Sida Populifolia. Rox. Flora, 3. p,179.— 
Rheed. Mal. 6. ¢. 45, Rumph, Amb, 4. t. 11. Wight’s Icones. Part 1. No. 205. 
A tall herbaceous plant 3 or 4 feet high, leaves round cordate serrate, very 
soft and velvetty; flowers small yellow, appear throughout the year; Car- 
pels numerous, truncate; placed 1ound a common axis, 
Common in waste places about villages. 
118. A. Astaticum. w.& a. 206. Sida Asiatica. Rox. Flora. 3. p. 179.— 
a biennial downy glutinous plant, with very beautiful large orange coloured 
flowers.—in gardens Bombay. 
119. A. Graveoveus. w, & a. 208.—Rumph. Amb. 4. ¢.29.—much like the 
last; flowers smaller.—S. Concan. N. ‘ 
58, SIDA, L. Monodelphia Polyandria—a name applied by Theophrastes 
to a malvaceous plant—(Don.) side—is usually translated a pomgranate. (see 
Aristophanes in Plutus. 8. 721.) 
