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being of a more glaucous hue. The typical form has dark red 
flowers. 
(a) Leaves with broad lobes. Types—Bagar siah, Bagar 
safed and Lyallpur Farm selected, all from the 
Punjab. 
(b) Leaves with narrow lobes. Types-—-Forms of Sagar 
stah and Bagar safed of the Punjab. 
G. sanguineum, Hassk. var. nov. minor. As in type, but 
plants with pink flowers. 
(a) Leaves with broad lobes, Forms of Bagar siah, Bagar 
safed and Deshi Multan of the Punjab. 
(Lb) Leaves with narrow lobes. Forms of Bagur siah and 
Bagar safed of the Punjab. 
The extra-Indian distribution of G. sanguineum is uncertain 
and probably coincides with that of G. arborewm. 
4. Gossypium HERBACEUM, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1, p. 693 (1753) 
Masters in Fl. Brit. Ind., 1, p. 346 (excluding all the four 
varieties), Todarol. c. Varying in height from 2 to 7 feet, basal 
branches long and spreading, median and upper also long and 
spreading, drooping in fruit ; older parts greyish brown, slightly 
hairy, young parts green covered with black dots and soft, white 
spreading hairs; the sides of the branches facing southwards 
gradually turning to a dark red colour. Stipules ovate to linear 
lanceolate, falcate, about $ inch long, the broader ones sometimes 
lobed towards apex. Leaves rather membranous, yellowish green, 
shallowly cordate rotundate, palmately 3—5 more lobed, lobes 
deep ovate obtuse or acute, margins quite entire or sinuate, sinus 
folded ; basal jobes, when present, are above the sinus and do not 
rise from it. Inflorescence on short secondary or tertiary axes. 
Bracteoles spreading in fruit, rounded, with about 8—10 lanceo- 
late acuminate teeth, reaching one-fourth of the way down. 
Calyx cup shaped, entire, accrescent and irregularly splitting, 
with three external basal glands. Corolla yellow with a black 
eye, fading to yellow suffused with red, $ to 2 inch longer than 
the bracteoles, antiers dark yellow with rather short filaments, 
stigmas short, channels straight or slightly twisted. Capsule 3- 
