Gossypium. | MALVACER. 129 
GOSSYPIUM, L. 
Bracteoles 3, leafy, cordate. Calyx truncate or shortly 5-cleft. 
Staminal column bearing numerous filaments outside. Ovary 5- 
Annual ; seeds free, clothed with firmly adhering silky down . G. herbaceum. 
eds black, free or cohering, devoid of 
: - G. Barbadense, 
solitary, on short pedicels ; involucre consisting of 8 broadly cordate 
acute or acuminate leaflets either entire or more usually variously 
serrate or cut; capsule 3-5-celled, elliptical or ovate, acuminate ; 
seeds free, clothed with firmly adhering white down and surrounded 
y white or tawny cotton. 
., = 4B.—Much cultivated in several varieties all over Burma, and often seen as 
ae . By toungyas and neglected lands—Fl. Fr. C. and HS.—1— 
2. G, Barbadense, L.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 347.— Noo-wah.—A much- 
lobed, 
slender petioles, more or less hairy or quite glabrous, blackish-dotted, 
Y seen in gardens of Burma. 
: BOMBAX, L. 
ee Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, or ifregularly 3-5-lobed. Staminal - 
= Column divided into numerous filaments, of which the inner ones 
