L6 INDIAN COTTONS. 
6. Gossypium inpicum, Lamk. Dict. Encycl. 2, p. 134 (1786) : 
G. Wightianum, Zod. Osser sui Cotoni, p. 41 (in part). Stems 
up to 8 feet in height, simple, tapering gradually from base to 
basal branches long, ascending, medial moderately long, 
APeX ; 
Leaves varying from entire to usually 3- or 
uppermost small. 
occasionally 5-lobed, base cordate, lobes broadly ovate, smuses 
broad. #racteoles ovate-pointed, entire or few toothed at 
apex. Bolls ovate acuminate, 3—4-celled ; cotton scanty, staple 
silky, long ; seeds in each cell 4—10, covered with grey brown 
velvet. Typical plants have yellow flowers. Bengal and 
Madras have each one form; the United Provinces have two; 
the remainder come from Central India, the Punjab and the 
Central Provinces. 
Of Yerraputti Mr. Benson says that it seems, lke Karun- 
ganni, to partake more of the G. indicum than of the G. 
neglectum type, but possibly it includes more than one variety. 
Plants so named are found widely as scattered plants in greater 
or less proportion over the areas where both Northerns and 
Westerns are produced. Properly speaking, this variety is not 
one to be grown on “ Cotton soils.” 
As regards the Central Provinces, Mr. Standen (Director of 
Agriculture) says that Bani is a more delicate and later ripening 
variety with longer and silky staple. [t used tobe grown largely 
in the Wardha district as well as im the neighbouring parts 
of Berar, but is being thrust out by the Jari (G. neglectum), 
because the latter even in the most favourable years pays better 
than Bani in all but the most suitable localities. The Assistant 
Director of Agriculture believes that Nimaii is Bani, of which 
the character has been somewhat altered by transfer to a drier 
climate. The Chanda Jari is a cold weather variety yielding 
a smaller outturn than Jarv or Bani, but producing cotton of 
better quality than either. From Mr. Shevade’s report on the 
cotton of Barsi in the Sholapur District, it would appear 
that Bani once formed the bulk of the so-called Barsi cotton. 
Gossypium indicum, Lamk. var. nov. Mollisoni differs from 
the type only in having white flowers. The examples are all 
