COTTON PLANT. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx double. 
Corolla of five inversely heart-shaped petals. 
Seed-vessel roundish, divided into three or four chambers, 
containing several oval seeds. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Gossypium herbaceum, G. foliis quinquelobis mucronatis sub- 
tus uniglandulosis, caule herbaceo 
laeve. Linn. Spec. Plant. IViUd. 3. 
p. 803. 
Leaves divided into five pointed lobes 
with a single gland beneath ; stem 
smooth and herbaceous. 
G. foliis quinquelobis subtus uniglan- 
dulosis, lobis rotundatis mucronatis, 
calyce exteriore serrato. Lamarck. 
Encyclop. 2. p. 133. 
G. frutescens, semine albo. Bauh. 
Pin. 430. 
Cotton Plant. . . . Cavan. Diss. 6. p. 310. pi. 164. f. 2. 
Blackw. Herb. pi. 354. 
This useful plant is found in Cyprus, in the island 
of Candia, in Syria, and in the Indies ; it is also 
