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1. T. lampas (Cav.) Dalz. & Gibs. Bulacbulacan (Tag.). 



An erect slightly branched shrub 2 to 3 m high. Leaves ovate, 10 to 

 20 cm long, somewhat 3-lobed pr nearly entire, green and nearly glabrous 

 on the upper surface, somewhat stellate-pubescent beneath, base broad, 

 cordate, apex acute or acuminate. Peduncles 3-flowered, axillary and 

 terminal, forming a somewhat leafy panicle. Calyx green, of 5 subulate 

 lobes connate below the middle. Corolla campanulate, 6 to 8 cm long, 

 yellow, the center dark-purple. Capsule ovoid, about 3 cm long, 4-, some- 

 what 5-valved. (Fl. Filip. pi. S53.) 



In dry open places, San Juan del Monte, near Fort McKfnley, etc., fl. 

 Oct.-Jan.; scattered in the Philippines, possibly introduced. India to Ma- 

 laya and eastern Africa. 



2. T. populnea (L.) Corr. Banago (Tag.). 



A tree reaching a height of about 10 m, the branchlets, under surface 

 of the leaves etc., covered with small brownish scales. Leaves glossy, 

 broadly ovate, sharply acuminate, entire, base very broad, slightly cor- 

 date, 7-nerved, 8 to 15 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, long-peduncled. 

 Calyx truncate, about 1.5 cm in diameter. Corolla yellow, dark-purple 

 inside at the base, about 5 cm long, the lobes strongly imbricate, turning 

 purplish in age. Capsule depressed-globose, 2 to 3 cm in diameter. (Fl. 

 Filip. pi. 2i7.) 



Occasional near the sea, fl. most of the year; along the strand'through- 

 out the Philippines. Tropical Asia and Africa through Malaya to Poly- 

 nesia. 



11. GOSSYPIUM Linnaeus 



Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, mostly erect, branched. 'Leaves 

 mostly palmate, 3- to several-lobed. Flowers large, axillary, mostly yellow, 

 often purple at the base inside. Bracteoles 3, large, leafy, cordate, lobed- 

 laciniate. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate or 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate, 

 the petals convolute or spreading. Ovary 5-celled. Capsule loeulicidally 

 3- to 5-valved. Seeds densely clothed with a fuzz or vyith woolly hairs, 

 or both. (Said to be derived from an Arabian word signifying "softness.") 



Species about 42, tropics of both hemispheres, many cultivated, about 4 

 species in the Philippines, all manifestly introduced. 



Leaves 3-lobed, up to 12 cm long; corolla about 4 cm long; seeds free, 

 covered with a dense fuzz in addition to the wool 1. G. hirsutum 



Leaves 3- to^-lobed, up to 25 cm long; corolla 6 to 8 cm long; seeds con- 

 glomerate, glabrous, woolly but with no fuzz 2. G. brasilienae 



*1..G. HIRSUTUM L. Bulac (Tag.) ; Algodon (Sp.) ; Cotton. 



An erect, branched, suffrutescent herb 0.5 to 1.5 m high, the younger 

 parts sparingly villous or stellate-villous. Leaves broadly ovate, 5 to 12 

 cm long the upper ones usually entire, the lower ones 3-lobed in the upper 

 one-half,, the lobes broadly ovate, triangular-acuniinate, base cordate, the 

 lower surface conspicuously black-punctate. Flowers yellow, in age turn- 

 ing pinkish. Bracteoles three, free, green, base deeply cordate, margins 

 fimbriate-cleft. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla about 4 cm long. Fruit ovoid, 

 about 3.5 cm long, beaked, 3- or 4-celled. Seeds free from each other, 

 densely covered with a fine fuzz in addition to the floss. 



Singalon, cultivated, probably raised from American seeds, fl. May-June. 

 Widely distributed in tropical and warm countries, but of very recent 

 introduction in the Philippines. 



