G. A. GAMMIR. 5 
anything better I have attempted to correlate Todaro’s descrip- 
tions and figures with our plants. 
As these notes are drawn up primarily for the use of Indian 
agriculturists, I have multiplied the number of species and 
varieties, knowing from my own experience that such a procedure 
assists to simplify what even then must. still remain a subject 
difficult to understand. From a botanical point of view it is 
clearly evident that we have at the most only one true species of 
cotton in India, Gossypium odtusifolium, with its two sub-species, 
G. arboreum and G. herbaceum. All other forms should be 
treated as derivatives of these. The following species and varie- 
ties which I describe are really agricultural races, which remain 
fairly constant to their characters in the environment within 
which they have been evolved or cultivated for some considerable 
time. Sharing in the same descent, they are capable of being 
crossed with facility and their descendants are fertile. 
A, Roz and Dev Kapas Group, all the branches ascending 
and thickly crowded, not drooping at their extremities. Leaves 
with basal lobes and lateral folds in the sinuses. Bracteoles entire 
or only slightly toothed on the margins and apex. Flowers small, 
dark purple, pink purple or yellow. Bol/s small or large. 
1. Gossypium obtusifolium, Rowb.— Whole plant green. 
Corolla yellow. Cot- 
ton white. 
ty rs 4 Var. nov. Coconada. 
Cotton drab. 
? ” i Var. nov. _ hirsutior. 
Plant more hairy, 
with a strong tenden- 
cy towards G. herba- 
ceum. 
Var. Nanking. Plants 
with a tendency 
towards G. neglectum. 
Bolls and bracteoles 
large. 
