P. F. FYSON. 1 
The taking of notes of the plants was also very much 
simplified by this system. A square ruled to’ 100 small squares 
represented a bed, each small square representing a plant. It is 
only necessary to write in the square some letter or symbol 
denoting the nature of the character noted. Thus the colours of 
the flowers in the bed marked 2-0 in the plan were noted as in 
the accompanying note-book plan of the bed. 
THE LEAF. 
Crosses were made between all the Indian races named above, 
but the two species which differed most in the shape of the leaf 
were Jara (G. arboreum Linn. var. neglectum of Watt ; G. neglectum 
Tod. of Gammie) and G. obtusifolium Roxb. (of Watt) or G. 
herbaceum Linn. (of Gammie) represented in my beds by Northerns, 
by fuzzy seeded (white) Jowaiz, by naked seeded (black) Jowari 
and by Bilathathi. Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, show the characteristic 
shape of their leaves. 
The following table gives the number of bolls and of plauts 
obtained. 
Pxere Ue 
. | 
Fig, Seed plant. | Pollen plant. Bolls. | Plants. | Leaves like. 
1 | Jowari fuzzy ...| Jari white flower 2 19 Pe 
2 .| Jari white flower ... | Jowari fuzzy 1 LS iow eS 
3 | Jowari naked ... Jari white flower 1 HON rae ie 9 
4 | Bilaihathi ... | 4, yellow flower 2 TGA es a7, 
5 | Northerns ... | 5, White flower me 4 58 a aS 
6 | Jari white flower ... | Northerns he i 1 11 Safe 39 
Total Ati 11 131 
All these 131 plants were without exception like Jari in the 
shape of the leaf.* Figures 5 to 9 were drawn to scale from 
* It might appear that my observations are here at variance with those of Leake who 
(9 p. 15) says the hybrids he obtained were intermediate between the parents. But his 
crosses were between G. arboreum aud G. indicum, while mine were between G, neglectum 
and G, herbaceum, species which are probably less closely connected. ‘The cases are, therefore, 
not analogous, nor the observations necessarily contradictory, 
