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glabrous and black, or be covered by a more or less dense coating 
of short hairs, the “ velvet” or “fuzz.” Size is not a character 
easily discriminated, as it may depend on several factors. There 
is more real difference in the shape, the seeds of Jowari being 
for instance round, with a hard prominent beak. But attacks 
of seed-sucking insects, particularly of theScarlet Bug (Dysdercus 
cingulatus), and the Dusky cotton-bug (Oxycaraenus laetus) 
so altered the shape, that attempts to discriminate between the 
seeds in this respect were given up. One variety—Tel/apatts or 
black seeded Jowais differs from all the other Indian kinds, by 
having a smooth glabrous seed coat of a dark brown or black 
colour. Sir George Watt in his book (1) p. 152, says of this 
“There would seem little doubt that this is a naturally produced 
hybrid between the wppam and Bourbon cottons” and “ the same 
seed on germination may produce” some or more fuzz. The 
possibility of its being such a hybrid had not occurred to me, for 
[ looked upon it as a variety merely of the white or fuzzy Jowary. 
Nor, as far as I can see, does Prof. Gamunie in his classification of 
Indian cottons (1903-1904 and 1905) give a hint of such an origin. 
Crosses were made of this race with the normal fuzzy Jowarz, and 
with Jari. 
Table XI shows the numbers of bolls and of plants obtained 
trom them. 
Papin Xe 
Bolls. | Seed Parent. Pollen Parent. Naked. | Inter. | Velvet. 
v Jowari fuzzy ...| Jowari naked a os) 0 0) 
b Do. do. +a do. do. 16 0 0 
c Do. do. be do. do. x2 i) 11 0 
d Do. do. e do. do. Py 0 0 10 
e Do. naked nce do. fuzzy ge 6 0 ] 
f Do: da: ee do. do. 2 12 0 0 
g Do. do. ae do. do. ie 0 12 0 
h Do. do. is do. do. nes 16 () 0 
i=3 Do: do: ... | Jari de: a 16 0 0 
Total ve 71 23 ila 
With the exception of boll “d,” and of one plant out of 
boll *e,” no fuzzy-seeded plants were obtained in the first gener- 
ation by crossing the two kinds. These. exceptions must, I think, 
