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manifestation, as var. himalayana might be regarded as the corre- 

 ponding temperate form. This doubtless is the plant alluded to by 

 Symes (' Emb. to Ava.,' 1795, n. 83), which was spun and woven 

 by the women of Burma into the fabrics used by themselves and 

 their husbands. 



Citation of Specimens. In Herbaria the following may be found: Speci 

 Buchanan-Hamilton's sample from Rangoon; Wight, Herb. Pen. In. Or. mens. 

 n. 214 ; Griffith, Ava n. 51 (cf. Private Journals, p. 147) ; Tinnevelly cotton 

 from Central Museum, Madras ; Dr. Charles Richie, Deccan collections nn. 59 

 (said to be wild cotton) and 59 (2) Ahmedpur (both in Edinburgh Herb.) ; 

 Reporter Econ. Prod. Ind. n. 22,007 (yerra patti) ; n. 21,886 Coconada ; 

 n. 21,884 nadam ; n. 23,797 and n. 22,802 wa-gale from dry central Burma ; 

 also ? n. 22,932 wa-gyi ; Watt, Manipur cotton n. 5824 ; specimen in Herb. 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, collected by Masters in ' Mikur hills ' in 

 February 1845. There are also in the Calcutta Herbarium several additional 

 species of interest, such as Rottler's n. 330 and Gamble's n. 16,097. Hove (Br. 

 Mus. Herb.) ' Yellow Cotton from Joynegare ' (Junagadh),is a most remark- 

 able plant, leaves very small, very like G. arboreum, but densely tomentose, 

 hence incorrectly named &. tomentosum ; wool reddish-coloured. Griffith's 

 Ava specimen collected in 1834 is exceptionally hairy, at least the sample 

 of it in the Cambridge Herbarium is so, though I believe it to be this plant. 



Nomenclature. The assemblage it is desired to assign to this 

 position has been admirably represented by Rumphius (' Herb. Amb.' 

 1. 12). He tells us that his plant was a perennial bush that differed from 

 the cotton of Hindustan, Asia, and the islands of the Mediterranean. 

 It is, however, just possible that he had never actually seen the Indian 

 cottons, even although he adds that the small herbaceous form is 

 common in Bengal, especially on the Coromandel coast. His plant 

 is undoubtedly different from the most abundant herbaceous cotton 

 of India to-day, but is typical of the Deccan and South Indian group 

 of perennial cottons. The plate figured by Eumphius is thus of the 

 greatest historic value, since it establishes the fact that these perennial 

 cottons have been known in the East for several centuries. 



The plants of this series often blend, however, so gradually into 

 those discussed under G. obtusifolium (the uppam cottons of South 

 India) that it becomes a matter of great difficulty to separate them, 

 especially when represented, as is often the case in herbaria, by 

 fragmentary specimens. The nadam cottons are, as a rule, far less Nadam 

 hairy (except on the petioles and veins), the leaves are thicker and wrstis 

 have very frequently three glands, the segments longer, broader, cottons, 

 more tapered, the sinuses larger and wider, and the bracteoles 

 smaller and less distinctly toothed than are those of the uppam and 



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