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generally hairy, the young leaves and bracteoles pubescent, hairs stellate or 
three to four brarched. The petioles, leaf ribs and peduncles villous, hairs 
simple, though a few stellate or branched hairs occur on the ribs. The leaves 
are very variable, cordate. The lower and larger leaves are fiv>, six or 
sev-n lobed, the upper leaves three to five lobed, half or less than half 
segmented. The middle lobe is ovate, acute, mucronate and constricted 
at the base. The stipules are persistent, linear, and those in peduncles 
markedly unequal, one of them oblique, secondary or tertiary ovate, 
trancat2, toothed and the other lanceolate-acuminate. The bolls are not 
usually smooth, of all shapes, usually three-celled, seldom two or four- 
celled, and they open fully when ripe, the valves being highly recurved on 
the edges. The lint adheres loosely to the seed, and is fine creamy-white, 
silky and of good staple. The seeds are smaller than in Wagad cotton and 
covered with whitish fuzz, usually six to seven per cell, seldom eight to 
ten. 
So far as the branching is concerned, the limbs are more developed than 
in Wagad, and the axillaries arise earlier and are more numerous than in the 
latter variety. The flowering characters vary very largely, but the flowers 
appear later than in Wagad though the flowering is over sooner. 
3. Goghari only differs from Broach deshi as regards the boll characters, 
and those of the seed and lint. These are described fully later as given by 
Middleton ( page 81) and as observed by me ( page 83 ). 
These three types are the only ones which can, we think, be distinguished 
among the herbaceum cottons of Gujarat. They will be found mixed and 
hybridized in every proportion in almost every part of the province, and it is 
comparatively rare, except in very restricted areas, to find any of themin a 
perfectly pure condition. The Wagad, however, can be found relatively pure 
in a tract iying to the extreme north-west of British Gujarat in the Ahmeda- 
bad District, and on the borders of Kathiawar. The best centres for geting 
pure Wagad cotton are, perhaps, Viramgam and Bavla. Again the only centre 
where Broach deshi can now be found relatively pure is in certain parts of the 
Surat District in the extreme south of the cotton area of Gujarat. The best 
centres for getting pure types are Jalalpor, Vedchha and Bilimora. The 
third variety, the Goghari, is found in the purest condition in the northern part 
of the Broach District, in the Jambusar Taluka. All the rest of Gujarat 
grows a mixture of types, and this is sometimes called Kahanmi or Kanvi, 
sometimes Broach, sometimes Lalio, sometimes Amli,.while there are dozens 
of other local names. Its characters vary with the extent of the mixture and 
of the constituents. Until recently ‘roach deshi decidedly predominated 
