'78 xxiii. malvace*. [Gosst/pium 



Prince's Island. — Sept. 1853. Coll. Carp. 265. 



St. Thomas' Island. — In the more elevated wooded parts of the 

 island.; perhaps formerly introduced there ; cotton of a pale-cinnamon 

 or dirty chestnut-yellow colour ; Dec. 1860. Coll. Carp. 264. 



Welwitsch in Apontamentos, p. 558, states that three distinct 

 kinds of cotton are cultivated in Angola with greater or less 

 •frequency. He calls them G. vitifoliwm, G. barbadense, and 

 G. herbaceum, the two first being also met with wild in the neigh- 

 bourhood of villages ; the last name, however, does not appear to 

 apply to the species so called by Linnaeus. 



The specimens in the collection may be placed under the fol- 

 lowing four names, here used as sub-species : — 



(1) G. punctatwni Schum. in Beskr. Guin. Plant, p. 309 

 {1827) ; G. bwrbadense L., var. hvrsutwm Welw. Apontamentos, 

 p. 590, n. 83. 



Loanda. — A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. wide ; stem erect, with spreading 

 ■elongated branches ; flowers at first sulphur-coloured, soon turning 

 wine-reddish ; cultivated and half -wild as an escape from cultivation 

 in rather moist sandy fields near Imbondeiro dos Lobos ; fl. March, 

 fr. July 1858. Wild and cultivated, especially in the drier plains 

 throughout Angola, mixed with other forms. The ordinary form 

 ^becomes hairy when growing in rather dry fields after disused cultiva- 

 tion. Represa de Conceicao, between Penedo and Forte de S. Pedro ; 

 fl. and fr. end of July 1854. No. 5235. 



Golungo Alto. — A cultivated annual plant ; flowers from whitish 

 to violet-purple ; seeds received from Louisiana under the name of 

 "Buena Vista," and planted 12 Feb. 1856 ; first fl. end of March ; 

 first ripe fr. middle of May 1856 ; capsules almost ripe at end of 

 April 1856 ; Arimo de Mariano, Cacarambola ; cultivated in fields 

 near Sange ; with a sample of the cotton grown from the Louisiana 

 seeds. No. 5224. Coll. Carp. 258, 259, 260. Cultivated and sub- 

 spontaneous in thickets about Sange, quite certainly not indigenous ; 

 with yellow fl. end of Feb. 1856 ; wild and in fr., Quibolo, August 

 1856. No. 5223. 



Mossamedes. — Cultivated in the fields of Purificaeao, near Caval- 

 heiros, but in small quantity ; fl. and fr. 23 April 1859. No. 5225. 

 In gardens near the city of Mossamedes ; fr. July 1859. No. 5226. 



(2) G. maritimum Todaro, Relaz. Cult. Coton. p. 225, t. 7, & 1. 1 1, 

 fig. 27 (1878). 



Mossamedes. — An ill-shaped shrub, 2 to 3 or occasionally 4 ft. high ; 

 cotton of a pallid cinnamon colour ; cultivated in the fields of 

 Purificaeao, near Cavalheiros ; fl. and fr. August 1859 ; called by the 

 colonists " Algadao cor de Ganga." No. 5222. Cotton of a yellowish 

 (Nanking) colour ; Fazenda dos Cavalheiros. Coll. Carp. 263. 



(3) G. peruvianum Cav. Diss. vi. p. 313, t. 168 (1788). 

 Golungo Alto. — A shrub, 4 to 7 ft. high ; flowers at first of a deep 



yellow colour, soon turning wine-reddish ; abundant and wild in de- 

 pressions and on the drier slopes, and also cultivated about the native 

 villages and their lower parts ; Sange ; fl. July 1855. No. 5230. 



Mossamedes.— Sea-island cotton, fl. and fr. No. 5229. Seeds soli- 

 tary, not imbricate-distichous, with white cotton ; cultivated in the 

 fields of Purificaeao, near Cavalheiros, fl. and fr. 23 August 1859, where 

 it is called " Algodao de.Panacho." No. 5232. 



