G. A. GAMMIE. 1] 
G. obtusifolium, Roxb. var. nov. Nanking. With most of 
the characters of the type, but leaves of a darker green resem- 
bling those of G. neglectum. Bolls and bracteoles comparatively 
large. 
The types are Wa-gale andWa-gyi of Burma with good 
cotton and two cottons from seed imported from China. This may 
be G. Nanking, Meyen. The Chinese plants have not grown 
well, but they seem closely allied to the two Burmese forms 
included with them. 
G. obtusifolium, Roxb. var. nov. sindica. Branches more 
sparse and spreading than in type, upper with a strong tendency 
to become successively shorter. Leaves larger, of a bright yellow- 
ish green colour resembling those of G. indicum. This variety 
may be a connecting link between G. obtuszfolium and G. indicum. 
The type is recorded from Sind only. 
The extra-Indian distribution of G. obtusifoliuwm, Roxb. 
includes the Philippines (Vidal), where itis wild, Timor, Letti 
and Lakor in the Malayan Archipelago, Nyassa Land, Central 
Africa, Transvaal, Madagascar, Hadramant (7. Bent), Zambesi, 
Somali Land and Rhodesia. Dr. Masters saysin F]. Brit. India. 
I, page 347, that this was the form found in Ava by Griffith, 
Journals, page 147. Many of the extra-Indian specimens quoted 
under G. herbaceum may more properly come here, but it 
is impossible to decide the matter from herbarium materials 
alone. 
2. Gossypium aRBorEuM, Linn. Sp. Pl., p. 693 (17538), 
Todaro l.c. G. album, Ham, teste Herb. Wight, 176; Roxb. Fi. 
Ind., III, 183. Perennial, reaching 7 feet in height. Stems 
robust, internodes short, all the branches acutely ascending. 
Branches dark red with close, very short stellate hairs mixed with 
longer, simple, pilose hairs, as are also the petioles and leaves. 
Leaves 5-lobed, lobes narrowly oblong or ovate-oblong sub-obtuse 
mucronate, sinus broad, often with small accessory basal or lateral 
lobes. Inflorescence in short secondary and tertiary divisions of 
lateral branchlets, drooping. Bracteoles ovately triangular acute. 
1 inch by {inch average length and breadth, quite entire or 1—8 
