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 Plate I. Fig. l.^A field of Egyptian cotton intermixed with Hindi. Fig. 2. — 



An Egyptian cotton plant between two Hindi plants 54 



II. Fig. 1. — Small cotton field at Benha, Egypt. Fig. 2. — Large cotton 



field at Benha, Egypt, with natives irrigating 54 



III. Bracts and calyxes of Hindi cotton from Mesopotamia and from 



Fayum, Egypt 54 



IV. Bracts and calyxes of Egyptian cotton and of a Hindi hybrid 



V. Bracts and calyxes of Hindi-like Upland cotton from Cochin China 54 



and of a relative of the Egyptian cotton from central Africa 



VI. Bolls of Egyptian and of Hindi cotton 54 



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