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Upper Tapanahoni River, near Pontoetoe: Versteeg 867 (fl. Sept.) 

 Paramaribo: Kegel 968 and 969 (fl. Aug.); Went 330 (fl. Octob.) 

 Commewyne River: Focke 393. 

 Vernacular name : »Peru-katoen". 

 Tropical America. 



Oossypium pubescens Splitg. Mss. ; de Vriese Ned. Kruidk. Archief I. 

 1848. p 334- 

 Paramaribo, cultivated in gardens : Splitgerber 985 H. L. B. 905, 237—2 

 and 3 (fl. May). 



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