Vo1 - 3 MALVACEAE 43 



■ Luzon (Cagayan, ? Zambales) , Cuming 1063, F. B. 4285 Klemme. In 

 forests at low altitudes. Endemic. - -* 



Local name: Pangardisen (Ilk.). 



BOMBYCIDENDRON VI DALIAN UM (Naves) Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. 



Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 112. 

 Hibiscus vidalianus Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. (1877-83) t. 333; 



Vidal Cat. PL Prov. Manila (1880) 19, Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 16, 



t. 16, f. C, descr. 

 Hibiscus grewiaefolius F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 24, non Hassk. 

 Bombycidendron glabrescens Warb. in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 



110. 



Luzon (Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Abra, Bontoc, Benguet, Nueva 

 Ecija, Bulacan, Rizal, Bataan, Laguna), Mindoro, Coron, Palawan. Com- 

 mon in forested ravines and in secondary forests at low and medium al- 

 titudes, ascending to 1,200 m; scarcely differing from B. campylosiphon 

 Warb. except in its glabrous or nearly glabrous leaves. Endemic. 



Local names: Bitnong (Ig.) ; lanutan (Bon., Tag., Bis.) ; losoban (Ilk.) ; 

 lusuban (Ilk.); takulau (Ilk.). 



12. GOSSYPIUM Linnaeus 



GOSSYPIUM ARBOREUM Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 693; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 2 

 (1858-59) 163; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 26; Watt Cotton PL 

 (1907) 81, t. 7-8; Merr. Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 256. 



Gossypium perenne Blanco FL Filip. (1837) 537, ed. 2 (1845) 376, 

 ed. 3, 2 (1879) 330. 



Gossypium. herbaceum Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 97, non 

 Linn. 



Mindanao (Misamis), (Cuming 1647) . 



The identification of Cuming 1647 is after Watt, op. cit. 96, who refers 

 it to Gossypium arboreum Linn. var. neglectum (Tod.) Watt. Widely dis- 

 tributed in cultivation, but now extinct or at least very rarely planted in 

 the Philippines. 



GOSSYPIUM BRASILIENSE Macf. Fl. Jam. 1 (1837) 72; Watt Cotton PL 

 (1907) 295, t. 49, 50; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 325. 

 Gossypium lapideum Tussac Fl. Antil. 2 (1818) 67, nomen subnudum. 

 Gossypium barbadense Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 16, t. 16, f. E. 

 non Linn. 



Throughout the Philippines, planted here and there about houses chiefly 

 for ornamental purposes. Pantropic, but native of tropical America. 

 Kidney cotton. 



Local names: Bulak (Pang.); bulak-kastila (Tag.); gapas (S. L. Bis., 

 Bik.) ; kapas (Ilk.); kapas-a-dadakel (Ilk.); kapas-ti-igorot (Ilk.); kapas- 

 uag-uag (Ilk.); pernambuko (Tag., Bik.). 



GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2 (1763) 975; Watt Cotton 

 PL (1907) 183, t. 29-31; Merr. FL Manila (1912) 324. 



Occasionally planted in Luzon, Holman; grown from American seeds. 

 It may not persist in cultivation in the Philippines. Pantropic in culti- 

 vation. 



