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much leduced. The character of the curve suggest.s tJiat it is simple, and 

 that the array is a homogeneous one. 



The next point about this selection is its earliness. Not only does it, 

 as would be expected, in the absence of many limbs, produce the greater part 

 of its bolls in fruiting branches or sympodia, but these fruiting branches tend 

 to appear early. The first of these fruiting branches appears, usually, at 

 Dharwar, at the seventh or eighth node about eight inches from the ground, 

 and the appearance of these branches is followed by rapid flowering. The 

 accompanying curve (Fig. 15) showing the number of flowers on one hmidred 



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