APPENDIX. 
CERTAIN MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS IN GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUNM, 
1. The fate of accessory buds occuring in the axils by the side of primary 
fruiting branches in Gossypium herbaceum, may be of several kinds ; either 
such accessory bud may remain dormant as occurs in a good many of the buds 
near the base of the cotton plant, orit may develop into an axillary vegetative 
branch and this is what usually happens in the middle part of the main stem 
of the plant. There is, however, a third possibility that these accessory buds 
should develop directly into primary fruiting branches so that there would be 
two such primary fruiting branches arising from one axil. This third 
possibility has never been noticed on Indian cottons ; indeed Leake! has 
definitely stated that this does not occur in Indian types and that the 
branch from the accessory bud is never sympodial. 
Burt and Haider? have found the character common however in Cawn- 
pore-American cotton and they state that flowering branches are found to 
arise from flowering branches. This character is inherited regularly and 
appears in all plants of a race though in a varying degree and, when well 
developed, is often associated with the appearance of flowering branches from 
the accessory bud on the main stem, on the monopodia, as well as on 
the axillary vegetative branches near the top. 
We have found that the phenomenon in question is very common also 
among plants of Gossypium herbaceum grown at Surat. A doubt might occur, 
however, as to the nature of these shoots arising from the accessory buds 
especially as Leake classifies such cases as apparent exceptions and state that 
they can be traced to local damage. That this is not the case, can, however, 
be clearly proved by a consideration of the estivation of the flowers on the 
two primary fruiting branches arising from the main and accessory buds in 
the same axul, which should always be in the opposite direction to one another. 
1 Leake and Ramprasad. ‘Studies on Indian Cottons, Part I—The Vegetative 
Characters.’ Mem. Dept. Agri. India, Bot. Series, VI, no. 4. 1914: and also in “‘ Observations 
on certain Extra-Indian Asiatic Cottons.”’ Mem. Dept. Agri. India, Bot. Series, IV, no. 5, 
1912. 
2 Burt and Haider, ** Cawnpore-American Cotton.” Pusa Bulletin no. 88. 1919. 
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