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G. arboreum is the tree cotton found throughout India except 

 in the Punjab and Rajputana. It has, in the author's opinion, 

 two varieties in addition to the type: these varieties he calls vars. 

 platyloba (Madras) with broad lobes to the leaves and vagans 

 (Central India, Central Provinces and Madras) with buff 

 lint. G. arboreum outside India is found in Japan, China, 

 Slam, the Malay Islands and Tropical Africa. 



G. sanguineiim Hassk., replaces G. arboreum in the Punjab 

 where it is called „Bagar". It has like it, rieh rose-purple flowers. 

 It has a variety minor Gammie, with pink flowers. 



G. Iierbaceum, type, and var. sakaUa Gammie, comprise all the 

 best cottons of Guzarat and includes the race „Kumpta" of the 

 southern part of the Bombay Presidency : the variety sakalia 

 differs from the type in the way in which its bolls remain almost 

 closed however ripe. G. Iierbaceum var. madraspatana Gammie with 

 small bolls includes the Madras races, probably degenerated, of 

 the group. G. Iierbaceum var. melanosperma Gammie, is another 

 Madras race with the bolls as in var. medraspatana but with the 

 testa free of short hairs. G. Iierbaceum seems to be the cotton of 

 Persia, Asia Minor, Greece and Turkey. 



G. intermedium, type, is found in drier Bengal and the adja- 

 cent parts of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. It is pro- 

 bably endemic in India. G. intermedium var. alba Gammie, with 

 white flowers, and slightly different bracteoles occur in the United 

 Provinces. The species is confined to India. 



G. indicum var. vera Gammie, has a wide distribution in the 

 drier parts of India. It is the chief cotton of the Central India 

 Agency, and parts of the Punjab and United Provinces; itis the 

 „Bani" cotton of the Central Provinces, and the „Haldia" of 

 r is s a. G. indicum var. Mollisoni Gammie, Stands in the same relation 

 to its type as G. intermedium var. alba does to G. intermedium type, 

 i. e. it has white flowers and somewhat different bracteoles. The 

 variety occurs with the type throughout the C en tr al I nd i a Agency, 

 the Punjab and in the United Provinces. 



G. neglectum is broken up into two varieties, vars. vera Gammie, 

 and rosea Gammie, each with subvarieties. G. neglectum var. vera 

 is one of the Chief cottons of the Unit e d Provinces, the Punjab, 

 Assam and Burma, whence it extends into the Central India 

 Agency, to Saugor in the Central Provinces, and to Sind and 

 Kathiawar in the north of the Bombay Presidency: its sub- 

 varieties are I) malvensis (in the Punjab, Sind, Central India 

 and United Provinces) with superior cotton and rather broad lobes 

 to the leaves, II) katliiavarensis (from Kathiawar and the Central 

 Provinces) with moderately fine cotton and broadly orate-oblong 

 lobes to the leaves, III) bengalensis from Orissa, northern and 

 western Bengal, Cawnpur and western Assam with coarse 

 cotton, large bolls and narrow lobes to the leaves, IV) burmanica 

 and kokatia from Central and Northern Burma, differing from each 

 other in having respectively white and buff cotton; they have coarse 

 cotton and broad lobes to the leaves. The variety rosea is divided 

 into type, subvar. cutchica^ and subvar. avensis, from the Centre 

 of India, Kathiawar, and Burma respectively, avensis occurring 

 also in the United Provinces at Hardoi. 



G. cernuum is common in parts of Assam where the best 

 known race is the „Kil" or Garo-hill cotton. It has been introduced 

 into other parts of northern and into the Central Provinces of 



