150 



WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



Baroda- 

 Broach 

 cottons. 



Dhollera 



cottons. 



yield from 400 to 500 Ib. of seed-cotton per acre. The following record 

 of specimens in the Herbarium of the Reporter on Economic Products, 

 Calcutta, may be useful : Broach series, nn. 1223, 1878, 1883, 1889, 

 1890, and 1895 ; Surat series, nn. 1709, 1715, 1731-2, 1876, 1880-2. In this 

 neighbourhood escapes from cultivation may be seen in the hedgerows, 

 or as survivals of last year, growing among other crops, but except in having 

 smaller, less hairy leaves, and larger, more reddish-coloured bracteoles, no 

 other differences are usually observed. These are precisely, however, the 

 departures noted when Broach or Surat deshi seed is sown on poor soils. 

 (See Plate No. 22, f. A.) 



(b) Goghari : One of the lower grade but profitable cottons of Baroda 

 and Broach. Is an extremely local race, and as already indicated is met 

 with on a narrow belt of calcareous soil in Baroda and Broach, as also, 

 to some extent, in Eajpipla State. The plant so closely resembles the 

 Tcahnami that, until the bolls form, the two can hardly be distinguished. 

 It is, however, a more robust plant, possibly (as Professor Middleton points 

 out) because of its being grown on a better-drained soil. The tertiary shoots 

 are rarely proliferous, but occur rigidly along the secondary branches and 

 bear only 2 to 3 flowers. The bolls are globose, and much larger than 

 those of the ordinary Jcahnami race, but the seeds are correspondingly 

 larger, darker coloured, and possess a more copious coating of velvet (fuzz), 

 while the wool adheres more firmly to the seeds, and is whiter in colour, 

 more woolly, but very much more abundant. It has the advantage of being 

 successfully grown on soils where kahnami is less profitable, but both plants 

 are often grown in the same field, the more copious supply of goghari being 

 practically an adulterant with the Jcahnami. The following examples may 

 be mentioned in the Herbarium (R.E.P.), nn. 1716, 1717, 1724, 1752, and 

 1830. 



(c) Lalio: This is the deshi cotton of Ahmedabad and Kathiawar 

 Dhollera cotton. It might be described as an inferior grade of kahnami, found 

 on light loamy soils, but it is a taller and more robust plant than the typical 

 deshi of Broach. In Kathiawar the pods are deflexediand the valves reflexed, 

 so that the floss protrudes from the ripe capsule to such an extent as to have 

 suggested the name laUo (saliva-like), but in some localities this peculiarity 

 is not well marked. Owing to the protruding of the cotton and its falling to 

 the ground it gets very dirty from dust and dried leaves adhering to it. A field 

 of ripe lalio cotton such as that photographed by me near Junagardh, with 

 the Girnar hills forming the background is very beautiful, and looks almost 

 like a field of snow. (See my paper on ' Cotton Improvement,' in ' West India 

 Committee Circular,' vol. xix., 1904, p. 144.) The name lalio (or lahrio) is 

 applicable to the desJns, Jcanvis, and kanpuris of the south, and to the 

 bJialia cotton (Ambli, &c.) coming from the Bhal country on the east. In 

 fact a Kathiawar cultivator would describe all the cottons grown between 

 Ahmedabad and Navsari as being lalio, and that is very nearly the view 

 I take. I am unable to see any difference between the laUo of Ahmedabad 

 and asul deshi (or Kathiawar deshi). The latter has a more silky floss, but 

 there are many grades in the collective series to which I give the name lalio. 

 Of these may be mentioned the Ambli and Sakalio cottons, also the deshi 

 (or mathio) Bhavnagar, Palitana, Junagardh, and Gondal, which all differ 

 very slightly, according to value of soil and care in cultivation, but not, 



