Thespesia] MALVACEZ. 269 
190. Hisiscus tiniaceus Linn.; F. I. “t 192; F. B. 1. i. 348; 
H. 255. H. tortuosus F. I. iii. 192. 
oh Sundribuns ; Chittagong: oan 8 near the sea. 
A large stheg or small much-branched tree. Beng. Bola; 
Uriya Bar 
191. Hisiscus rricuspis Banks; F. I. iii. 202; F. B. I. i. 844; 
E. D. H. 261. 
Frequently planted. 
Atree. Vernac. Gurhul. 
100. Gossypium Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs, or low trees; leaves palmately lobed. Flowers 
axillary, large, yellow usually with crimson centre, or purplish, 
solitary on jointed peduncles; bracteoles 3, large, leafy, cordate. 
Calyx cupular, truncate or slightly 5-toothed. Petals connate 
slightly at the base and there adnate to the staminal tube. 
tamens numerous, connate in a tube, truncate or 5-toothed at the 
top, giving off below the apex many antheriferous filaments. 
Ovary 5-locular ; style sete 5- frites: at the apex, stigmas 5; 
ovules in each josalas numero Fr wit a oe 3-5-valved 
; seeds free, clothed with closely adhering silky down ; bracteoles 
not rae below the middle’! ....¢:3.sb vad. osetia herbaceum. 
Perennial, shrubby ; seeds black, free or noheringy without adhering 
Pubescence, bracteoles deeply incised ......::+seeceeveeresereserene acuminatum. 
192. Gossypium HERBACEUM Linn.; F. I. iii. 184; F. B. I. i.340;5 
D. G. 404. 
Cultivated, 
small shrub. Vernac. Kapas, del i. 
193. Gossyrrum acummnatum Roxb.; F.I. iii. 189; E. D. @. 400. 
G. barbadense var. acuminata F. B. I. i. 347. 
Cultivated. 
A shrub. Vernac. Kapas. 
01. Thespesia Corr. 
Shrubs or trees; ee entire or lobed. Flowers large, axillary 
showy ; bract les 5-8 ing from the thickened apex of ‘be 
e 
| Pedunele, deciduous. Calyx truncate, minutely 5-toothed, or 
—- spartite, _p, te to 
Petals 5, connate at their bases and share gine? 
