386 



WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



influence of Civil War, 23 ; species, 

 races, Ac. (wild and cultivated), 65, 

 70, 73, 98, 100-1, 117, 118, 123, 124, 

 156, 157, 160, 162, 165, 167, 169, 170, 

 181, 183, 194-96, 201, 204-10, 211, 

 214, 215, 217-19, 224, 226-39, 241, 

 252, 254, 256, 259-65, 268, 272, 275- 

 90, 296, 302-10 ; early knowledge in 

 Europe of, 18 ; grades of, 45, 48 ; 

 trade terms of, 47 ; see G. herbaceum ; 

 fuzzy-seeded, 165-7, 320 ; wild : see 

 under Indigenous ; St. Louis, Cottons 

 of, 202 ; Uplands in Africa, 175-81 ; 

 Okra : which see ; Uplands in 

 America, 192-6, 231-9, see Stocks, 

 also Uplands ; in India to-day, 198- 

 200; Uplands in W. Indies, 239; 

 Uplands in Kussia, 239-41 ; historic 

 records of kidney, 307 ; hybridised, 

 337 ; see Hybrids ; introduction of 

 Sea Island, 271-3 : early importance 

 of Charleston, 278-9. See App. A; 

 also under names of states and coun- 

 tries, i.e. California, Carolina, &c. 



America, Central : see under chief 

 countries, i.e. Costa Eica, Guatemala, 

 Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pa- 

 nama, Yucatan, &c. 



America, South : see under names of 

 chief countries, i.e. Argentine, Brazil, 

 Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guiana, 

 Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay, &c. 



Aminiiu of Marcgraf, 295, 296 



Amonyiom of Claude d'Abbeville, 296 



Amraoti : see Oomras 



Andaman Islands, cotton of, 251, 294 



Andes, cotton of the, 214, 218, 219 



Angola, cotton of, 169, 171, 211, 252, 

 268, 311 ; Sange, 171. See also West 

 Africa 



Annual cottons, 15, 77, 87, 108, 115, 

 124, 126-7, 136-7, 143, 156, 159, 266, 

 278, 286, 309, 315, 322, 323 ; a late 

 discovery, 15, 162 ; first great annual 

 cotton, 80, 322 ; races of, 90 ; versus 

 perennial, advantages of, 132, 136, 

 315, 321, 322 ; a recent development, 

 136-7 ; stocks necessary, 264 ; of 

 Barbados, 268 ; Sea Island, stock of, 

 278 ; climatic influence on, 322 ; 

 great stocks in Asia Minor, 322 ; in 

 India, 323. See Perennial, also Tree 

 Cottons 



Anomalous genus, 4 



Antilles, cotton of, 101, 144, 189, 207, 

 247, 254, 256, 257, 259, 264, 267, 287, 

 298 ; St. Vincent (Windward Islands), 

 299 ; Guadeloupe, which see 



Anum : see Gold Coast 



Aoki : see Japan 



Arabia and Arabian cotton, 15, 43, 74, 

 75, 83, 92, 116, 128, 156, 157, 161 ; 

 perennial, 13; wild (Dhofar), 63, 



73-6 ; in ancient times, 86 ; Hadra- 

 mout cultivation of Roji, 135 ; cultiva- 

 vation of G. herbaceum, 161 ; centre 

 of influence, 323 



Areas of cotton production of the world, 

 15-6, 60, 63, 80-1, 158-9, 165-7, 

 245-8, 316, 319, 322-7; of Indian 

 races, 132-4, 147-8 



Argentine, cottons of, 258 ; Buenos 

 Ayres, 216 



Arizona, cottons of, 169, 170, 181, 192 



Arkansas, cotton of, 232 



Arkwright, inventions of, 19-20 



Armenia, cottons of, 228 ; conveyed to, 

 16, 157, 158 



Aschabad : see Transcaucasia 



Ashanti, cotton of, 215 ; Sittam, 258 



Ashmouni (Egyptian) cotton, 210, 214 

 219, 223 ; of some writers, 214 ; 

 original stock of, 214; origin, dis- 

 tribution, and yield of, 220 ; in India, 

 225 ; of Egypt (oldest variety cul- 

 tivated to-day), 313 



Asia and Asiatic cottons, 80, 116, 122, 

 125, 157 ; cotton conveyed to, 16 ; 

 races of, 73, 122 ; important, 81 ; 

 conveyed to New World, 81 ; and 

 Jamaica early tree cottons, 81, 134, 

 216 ; varieties and species, 88 ; in- 

 ferior grades of, 102 ; 'Asiatic cottons ' 

 of former writers, 165 ; indigenous 

 seeds of, 320 ; three great species of, 

 323. See also China, India, Japan, 

 Malay, Siam, &c. 



Asia, Central (Tartary, &c.) : see Yarkand 



Asia Minor (Turkey in Asia), Cottons 

 of : see Armenia, Constantinople, 

 Damascus, Kurdistan, Levant, Meso- 

 potamia, Palestine, Smyrna, Syria, 

 Turkey, &c. 



Assam, cotton of, 108, 109, 252; 'Assam 

 Hill cotton,' 111, 336 ; ' Mikur ' and 

 Manipur, 129 ; Cachar, 98. See Garo 

 hill cotton ; also Kil. 



Asul deshi and lalio, 150 



Asvatayana Srauta Sutra, 9 



Athens : see Greece 



Aurungs, 106 



Australia and Australian cotton, 4, 43, 

 46, 68, 145 ; wild, 63 ; Barrier Kange, 

 65 



Ava : see Burma 



Badagry : see Lagos 



Badi cotton, 202 



Badminton : see Beaufort, Duchess of 



Bagai cotton, 125 



Bahamas, cotton conveyed to Georgia 



from, 20 

 Bahia, cotton of, 296, 299 ; cultivation 



of, 17 ; in Egypt, 313 ; cross reference, 



45. See also Brazil. 



