20 INDIAN COTTONS. 
so that a well-grown plant forms a round-headed bush ; older 
parts of the stems and branches smooth, grey; younger parts 
green, gradually turning brown, covered with moderately stiff 
spreading white hairs and minute black dots ; stzpules lanceolate, 
faleate, about 4 inch long. Leaves sub-coriaceous, dark green, 
drying red, varying much in shape, ovate or ovate cordate entire, 
cordate with I to 3 shallow lobes or palmately cordate with 
3 shallow or very deep triangular or ovately triangular acute 
lobes which point forwards, base of blade with a red_ blotch. 
Bructeoles rounded, upper half of the margins with about ten 
faleately lanceolate acuminate teeth, the central ones exceeding 
the corolla in length, in bud and fruit clasping over like the 
tingers of two hands. Calyx campanulate, accrescent but not 
usually splitting in fruit, with 5 distinct triangular lobes. Corolla 
pale yellow without an eye, fading red. Anthers with rather long 
filaments so that they droop. Stigmas long, consolidated, twisted. 
Bolls usually 3- , sometimes 4-celled, spherical ovate obtuse shortly 
mucronate with the persistent base of the style a little longer 
than the bracteoles. Cotton silky, long in the staple. Seeds 
densely covered with grey velvet, 6—9 in each cell. 
This species is only included amongst the Indian cottons, as 
it has become quite naturalized in some parts of India, especially 
in the Karnatak. There are examples from Dharwar, Nagpur, 
Central Provinces, Assam, Bengal, United Provinces and Punjab. 
G. hirsutum, Mill. var. rufa, Todaro. Only differs from the 
type in the cotton being drab coloured. Synonymy according to 
Parlatore is, G. siamense lana ruta, Ten. /. c. G. religiosum, Moris. 
Fl. sard. I, p. 309. Coton de Siam, Cotone Isabelle of the 
French, Cotone siamese, Cotone maltese, Cotone Rosso, Cotone 
color di legno. We have examples from the Punjab, United 
Provinces and Central India. 
As regards the extra-Indian distribution of G. hirsutum, J/il., 
Parlatore gives Mexico and Galapagos as the habitat. It is 
cultivated in Central and North America, Canary Islands, Cape 
Verde, Western Coast of Tropical Africa, Algeria, Egypt, 
Abyssinia, Isle of France, Bourbon, Southern Italy, Sicily, 
