A new Gossypium from Michoacan, Mexico.

Gossypium lobatum: Slender tree 6-9 m. tall with single stem ca. 2 m. high, 15-20 cm. in diameter, bark light gray on trunk, dark or reddish-brown on branches and young stems with conspicuous scattered lenticels, these transversely elongate or 1-2 mm. broad parallel to horizontal ridges; branches slender, flexuous, spreading, the nodes remote, sparsely dotted with light-colored round lenticels, glabrate, the young twigs stellate-pubescent, …