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GOSSYPIUM. barbadense. 
Barbadoes Cotton-Tree. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Marvacen. 
Div. UL. Stamina iv tubum corolliferum connata, indefinita. TFrue- 
tus simplex multilocularis. oa 
GOSSYPiUM. Cal. cyathiformis (brevissimus) punctatus (re- 
pando-) sub5-lobus, calyculo cinctus majore (plano) 3-fido laciniis 
dentato-cristatis, (Cor. pentapetala.) Anthere (reniformes) in apice & 
superficie tubi. Sty/us 1, (columnaris longitudine staminum:) stigmata 
3-4, (crassiuscula.) Cups. (3-s.-4-loc., 3-s. 4-valvis Gen. pl.,) poly- 
sperma, seminibus lana involutis, (angulo loculamentorum centrali duplici 
serie affixis. Gert.) Arbuscule aut frutices quidam subherbacei; 
Stores axillares. Lolia quorumdam nervo pracipuo subtds glanduloso.. 
Jussieu gen. 274. 
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G, barbadense, foliis superioribus trilobis, inferioribus quinquelobis, 
caule leviori, seminibus liberis. Swartz obs, 266. 
Gossypium barbadense. Linn. sp. pl. 2.975. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. 
Hort. Kew. 2. 453. ed. 2. 4, 224. Swartz in Nov. act. holm. 1790. 
Q1. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 800. 
G. frutescens annuum, folio trilobo, barbadense. Pluk. alm. 172. 
Phyt. t. 188. f. 1. 
Caulis orgyalis et ultra, suffruticosus, biennis et ultra, ramosus, levis: rami 
erectiusculi, tereles, laves s. pubescentes. Folia diam. 4-5-unciali: lobis 
ovatis, acutis, nervosis, sublis pubescentibus et quogue supra ad nervos s 
petioli teretes, patuli. Pori 3 in nervis foliorum medii. Pedunculi 1-flori. 
Segmenta calycis exterioris magna, cordata, laciniato-cristata, acuta. Flores 
magni, flavi. Pet. basi coherentia, obcordata, imbricato-rotata lobo altero 
sins summi eccentrict obsolescente, extra imbricationem forts pubescentia, 
macula sanguinea in basi. Caps, ovata, acuminata, glabra. Sem. oblonga, 
plura, nigra land alba involuta, Tota planta sepius conspersa atomis atra- 
purpureis. 
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Scarcely any diligence can at this day enable us to deter- 
mine, so precisely and securely as it were to be desired, the 
species Linnus intended by barbadense. ‘The specimen 
in his Herbarium being doubtful; the figure cited for it, 
from Plukenett’s work, deficient in character; and the 
specific phrase too vague for near distinction. The present 
plant however is that which has passed traditionally in our 
collections for barbadense, and is the one of the Banksian 
Herbarium, Hortus Kewensis, Swartz, Willdenow, &c. &c. 
_ The species approaching the nearest to it are the East Indian. 
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