12 INDIAN COTTONS. 
toothed at apex or with teeth extending throughout two-thirds of 
the margins. Corolla about one-third longer than the bracteoles, 
dark red, fading almost to a black colour. Calya loose, campanu- 
late, limb truncate or with a few minute teeth, tube with three 
distinct glands at the base externally. Bolls brown, opening 
fully when ripe so that the cotton hangs down, as long as or a 
little longer than the bracteoles, ovate pointed, obtusely trigo- 
nous, 14 inch long by {¢ inch broad, cells usually 3. Cotton 
scanty, moderately fine and curly ; seeds 3 to 8 in each cell, velvet 
greenish grey. 
The type has the lobes of the leaves narrow. Many examples 
have been received from Gujarat, United Provinces, Madras, 
Central Provinces, Burma and Central India. Wherever found, 
it seems to be cultivated only on a very small scale. According 
to Hove, this red-flowered perennial cotton was cultivated largely 
in Gujarat. 
G. arboreum, Linn. var. nov. platyloba. This only differs 
from the type in having the lobes of the leaves broad. Examples 
were obtained from Madras Presidency only. Mysore, Heyne, 
in Herb. Kew. Serampore, Bengal, Griffith, Herb. Kew. 
G. arboreum, Linn. var. nov. vagans. This differs from the 
type in having drab-coloured cotton. The only examples are 
from Central India and Madras. A form of this variety may be 
partly G. Nanking, Meyen. 
The extra-Indian distribution of G. arboreum, Linn., includes 
the type in Java (Horsfield) and Siam (Zimmermann). The 
variety platyloba is found in Japan (Oldham, Maximowicz), 
Pekin (Bushell, Index Flore Sinensis under G. herbaceum, EY, 
Yunnan (Delavay}, China (cultivated, A. Henry, No. 11,024), 
Formosa (cultivated, A. Henry, 1899), Shanghai (cultivated, 
Carles, 388), China (Fortune), Celebes (Riedel), Abeokuta 
(Irving), and Central Africa. 
3. Gossypium sancuineum, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bog. 200, 
(1844), Todaro, l. ¢., G. rubicundum, Roxb. Ic. Ined. et in 
Herb. This differs from G. arboreum in being of more spreading 
growth, not so decidedly red in colour and in the foliage 
