G. A. GAMMIE. a 
eye. In other types this circle is represented by a perfectly 
regular pentagon, having no radiating yellow lines). 
4. Gossypium herbaceum, Linn. Valves of boll thoroughly 
reflexed so that the 
cotton is pendulous. 
var. nov. madraspatana. 
With smaller bolls but 
otherwise as in type, of 
which it is probably a 
degenerated form. 
var. nov. melanosperma. As 
in the last, but testa of 
seed naked. 
var. nov. sakalia.  Bolls 
, large, not opening widely. 
C. The Jethia Group.— Round-headed bushes, apex of stem 
seldom produced, branches ascending more sharply than in G. 
herbuceum. Leaves dark green, with lateral folds and rarely basal 
lobes in the sinuses. Bracteoles sub-triangular, gashed on the 
whole margin or more or less entire, not spreading in fruit. 
5. Gossypium intermedium, Todaro. Fiowers yellow. 
Bracteoles deeply gashed. 
var. nov. alba. Flowers 
white. Bracteoles often 
entire. A link with G. 
neglectum. 
D. The Boni Group.—Tall sparsely branched plants. Lower 
branches long slightly ascending, median and upper sparse, short, 
more or less drooping, becoming successively shorter, apex of simple 
stem much produced. Leaves yellowish green, entire to 3-lobed 
usually, lobes broadly ovate. Bracteoles triangular, entire or 
slightly toothed upwards. /vetuls reflexed, yellow or white. 
Cotton scanty and fine in the most typical examples. 
6. Gossypium indicum, Lamk. Flowers yellow. 
var. nov. Mollisoni. Flowers 
59 93 99 
99 39 79 
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white. 
