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bright yellow, with a purple base. Bombay Esplanade, near the 

 Native Hospital ; planted. 



XXVI.— GOSSYPIUM, Linn., Monadelphia Polyandra. Name 

 applied by Phny to a shrub of Upper Egypt which bore cotton. 



18. G Heebaceum ; G. Album. Roxb. Fl. p 181 ; Rheed. Mai. 

 1, t. 31; Wight Ic. I, p 198. — Native of India. The common 

 Indian cotton, " Kapusachejhar." j^ robust-spreading shrub in 

 Gujarat, whereas in Dharwar and Eastern Deccan it is a single- 

 stemmed plant, hardly rising above two feet. It is not found wild 

 in India, but is supposed to be the cultivated offspring of G 

 Obtusifolium, a climber found in hedges, and very common in Sind. 



19. G Religiosum, G Vitifohum(?) Roxb. 3, p 186.— "Nurma 

 Kuppas"; arboreous, slender, hardly having the habit of a tree ; 

 cultivated rather extensively in the north-west of Gujarat as a 

 triennial (?) also in Sind. Derives its name " Deo Kupas" from it 

 being most extensively used for the sacred thread of the Banians, 

 "Moonj." 



20. G Acuminatum, W. and A. 200. — The name " Religiosum" 

 is employed in the former edition of this book (erroneously we 

 think) to designate this species, which is the true Pernambuco 

 cotton, a later introduction by the Portuguese from Peru or Brazil. 

 It also is often found planted in the enclosures of Brahmins' houses, 

 and is used for the " Moqnj," as abovementioned. The use of the 

 word " Moonj" affords one more argument as to the progress of 

 the Brahminical caste from Upper India southward. The word is 

 the Sanscrit name of a species of " Saccharum" common there, and 

 which may have been originally used for the same purpose. 



The cultivation of this Pernambuco plant has several times been 

 attempted by Government and by individuals- on a#arge scale in 

 Western India, but' uniformly without success, shelter and frequent 

 watering being essential to its growth. In Graham's list, G Vau- 

 pellii (No. 1 1 5) as well as Religiosum (No. 1 14) refer to this species. 



A gold medal was presented by the Agri. and Horticultural 

 Society of Bombay to the late Mr. Vaupell, on his presentation of this 

 species as a discovery ! 



21 . The valuable species (?) or variety of G Herbaceum, named 

 G Barbadeuse, which has failed in Gujarat and all the northern 

 provinces of the Presidency, appears to be estabhshed as a success- 

 ful growth in the Dharwar Collectorate ; still the produce of cleaned 

 cotton per acre appears even there to be very small. 



All the other varieties of exotic cotton cultivated seem to be 

 referable to one or other of the abovenamed species variously 

 modified by soil and climate. 



22. Abutilon Striatum.— Mauritius ; a shrubby species with 

 serrate leaves and large roseate flowers, with white streaks, Dapoorie 



