G. A. GAMMIE. jy; 
trom Central India and the Punjab, with the exception of one 
from the Central Provinces and two from the United Provinces. 
The species seem to be endemic to India. 
7. Gossypium neaLectum, Todaro, Osser sw cotoni, p. 35 
(1863). G. herbaceum, Linn var. hirsutum, Musters in Herb. 
Kew. G. arboreum, Linn. (in part) Fl. Br. Ind., I, 347. Plants 
varying in height from 3 to 7 and more feet. Stems simple, 
wandlike, tapering gradually from base to apex, bark brown, 
tessellated, quite glabrous below, with simple, white short 
deciduous hairs above, herbaceous parts brownish red, specially 
so on the southern side. Lower branches sparse, long, spreading, 
medial short, uppermost very short; whole plant usually nodding 
if well covered with fruit. Leaves palmate or palmatipartite, 
lobes 3 to 5 or more, oblong lanceolate, ovate acute or sub-obtuse, 
sinuses broad or rising up into small extra lobes, base shallowly 
cordate; glands either altogether absent or present on the central 
rib or faintly present on the three central ribs; stipules lanceolate 
faleate acuminate or broad ovate few toothed at the apex. Flowers 
one from each node of the lateral branches, peduncles erect but 
drooping in fruit. Bracteoles deeply cordate, ovate acute, quite 
entire towards apex or sometimes toothed there. Calyx cup- 
shaped, entire or very shortly lobed. Corolla a little longer than 
the bractecles, upper part of petals reflexed; filuments compara- 
tively long ; stegmas 3-grooved, scarcely rising above the upper 
anthers, channels with or without black dots.  Bolls ovate, 
obtusely pointed, invested at base by the ruptured enlarged calyx, 
3—4-celled, very distinctly black dotted, valves separating and 
recurved when ripe. Cotton harsh, clinging more or less firmly 
to the seed, which is covered by grey velvet. 
G. neglectum, Tod. l.c. var. nov. vera. Lobes of leaves narrowly 
oblong, base not deeply cordate. Flowers yellow. Cotton copious 
and coarse. This variety is represented by forms from the Punjab, 
United Provinces and Central India. The latter area seems to 
have been the place of origin of both this species and G. indicum. 
G. neglectum, Tod. var. ncv. vera., sub. var. nev. malvensis. 
Similar to the last but lobes of leaves usually broader and the 
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