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later) and Surti Broach. Here also in the tract called 

 the Kahnam a variety called kanvi exists. It apparently 

 cannot claim to be considered a distinct race but is pro- 

 bably in no way different from Surti Broach or even 

 Navasari. 



The only remaining form of herbaceum which reaches 

 further north than this is the Lalio, which used to be dis- 

 tinguished by the very pendulous nature of its cotton when 

 ripe. A great deal of the cotton which goes under this 

 name is possibly Broach ; anyhow Lalio, as we used to know 

 it, has almost gone out of existence. On the lighter soils 

 of North Gujarat different species of cotton appear and 

 this mixture is in its greatest intensity in the Kaira and 

 Ahmedabad districts. A perennial variety, G. obtusi- 

 folium, Todaro, the Rozi of Gujarat, is grown in fields, 

 always as a mixture. 



In Kathiawar there are the same cottons as in Gujarat, 

 on the other hand wag ad, a form of herbaceum in which 

 valves of the bolls remain closed in the ripe bolls, is a pre- 

 valent species as is also a form of neglectum, called mathio 

 which is said to have been introduced into Kathiawar 

 about 1891 and gained ground after the famine year of 

 1899 when the local cottons were wiped out with drought. 



The decreasing values of cottons as we go up from the 

 southward undoubtedly depend on the accompanying differ- 

 ences of climate and soil. 



Thus, if we take the value of Broach at Rs. 300 per 

 candy of 784 lb. as the basis, we have — 



Rs. 



360 



330 



300 



285 



285 



260 



295 



255—260 



250 



Navasari 



Surat 



Broach 



Kanvi or Broach in 



Lalio 



Ghogari 



Wagad . 



Mathio . 



Dhollera 



the north of Broach 



