DETAILS OF THE HAITIAN COTTON 



Figure 19. A fruiting-branch of the native Haitian or Bourbon cotton, with 

 floral buds or "squares," a flower, a young boll, and a mature boll, in natural size. 

 The boll is more rounded at the tip than usual, most of the bolls having a distinct 

 short point. The petals are yellow with a purple spot at the base, as in Sea Island 

 cotton, but the leaves and the bracts of the involucre are most like Upland cotton. 

 The bracts commonly are united at the base as in Egyptian cotton. Since this type 

 of cotton apparently is immune to the smalling disease, it may be better suited to 

 cultivation in Haiti than the American Upland type, so that the breeding of uniform 

 and productive varieties of Bourbon cotton would be a means of avoiding injury from 

 the smalling disease. 



