10 INDIAN COTTONS. 
Peduneles 1 or 2, on secondary and tertiary divisions, reflexed, 
trigonous. Bracteoles } to 1 inch by ¢ to 7 inch, ovately trian- 
gular acute, teeth rather shallow and acute, usually confined to 
the upper third but occasionally present on the whole of the 
margins. Calyx loose, campanulate, truncate or minutely 
3-toothed, with three distinct glands on the base externally. 
Corolla up to 12 inch long, yellow with a dark eye, fading red. 
Stigmas united, slightly twisted. Bolls 1g to 1g inch by % to § 
inch, long pointed when 3-celled, short pointed when 4-celled. 
Cotton scanty, moderately fine and curly, seeds with a greenish 
gray velvet. 
Indian Forms.—Rozt or Jaria, a perennial growing for 6 or 7 
years, cultivated on the light soils of Gujarat. Professor Middle- 
ton says that it readily runs wild and in hedges assumes a climbing 
habit and then the cotton turns yellow and very short in the staple, 
the velvet at the same time becoming long; that it strongly 
resembles G. arboreum, the chief difference being a yellow flower 
and the absence of the marked reddish tinge possessed by that 
species. 
Nadam. Madras. Mr. Benson, M. R. A. C. (late Deputy 
Director of Agriculture, Madras), says that Nadam and Bourbon 
are the crops of the lighter and more gravelly soils. 
G. obtusifolium, Roxb. var. nov. Coconada. This differs 
from the type in having drab instead of white cotton. Mr. Benson 
says that the centre of trade in this cotton is at Gtntur. 
G. obtusifolium, Roxb. var. nov. hirsutior. Plants more 
hairy, leaves larger and altogether with a strong tendency towards 
G. herbaceum. 
Two forms have been received from Baluchistan under the 
names of Keehi Kapds and Karpds. I place these plants here 
mainly on account of their manner of growth. Many of their 
characters bring them very closely indeed to G. herbaceum. 
The majority of the forms, rangmg from Baluchistan westward 
to the Mediterranean, arranged under G. herbacewm, may really 
belong here, but I have seen only herbarium examples of 
these. 
