INDEX 



387 



Bahmia, 221 



Bahr-el-Ghazul : see Soudan 

 Bairati kapas, 104, 105, 107 

 Bajwara, 82 



Balls, W. L., described Senaar tree 

 cotton, 114 ; remarks on ' Hindi 

 weed,' 182 ; crossing experiments of, 

 339. For list of collections see App. 

 A under Egypt. 

 Banda : see Agra and Oudh. 

 Banga cotton, 93 

 Bangai cotton, 112 



Bani (Hinganghat and Oomra) cottons, 

 46, 131-4 ; origin of varadi and 

 vilayati, 111, 113, 133, 151 ; of Berar, 

 124 ; origin of, 132 ; position of by 

 former writers, 132; best breeding 

 stock, 133 ; confirmed as a distinct 

 variety, 134 ; as a hybridising stock, 

 important element of, 337 ; cross 

 references to, 96, 110, 111, 112, 118, 

 119, 122, 123, 128, 130, 152 

 ' Banks,' trade name, 238 

 Banks, Sir J. (1782), 185 

 Ban-kukri cotton, 298, 314 

 Barbados and Barbados cotton, 22, 190, 

 228, 256, 264, 268, 269, 270, 272, 285, 

 287, 299 ; seed carried to America 

 from, 19; oldest specimen of, 270; 

 naturally grown, 271 ; equal to Sea 

 Island, 280, 285. See also West 

 Indies 



Barberton : see South Africa 

 Barcelona, Cotton industry nourishing 



in, 15 

 Barlow, J. B., remarks on West Indies 



cotton, 291 

 Baroda, cottons of, 84, 92, 135, 150. 



See also Gujarat 

 Barrier Eange : see Australia 

 Batoka : see Zambesi 

 Basac (cotton of Jerusalem) : see Pales- 

 tine 



Bazazulu of the Zambesi, 214, 215 

 Beaufort, Duchess of, Badminton Gar- 

 dens, 184, 186-7, 228. See App. A 

 under Sloane 



Beaumont : see Europe, also France 

 Behar, cottons of, 131. See also 



Bengal 

 Belaiti or bilati, 46, 96, 97, 98, 109, 



151 



Belgaum : see Deccan 

 Bell, invention of, 19 

 Beluchistan, 157 

 ' Bendeis,' trade name, 45 

 Benecke, Dr., sugar-cane improvement, 



340 



Bengal and Bengal cottons, 95-108 ; 

 production and manufacture of, 13 ; 

 of nineteenth century, 93 Serampore 

 (cotton grown at), 98; plants and 

 Japanese stocks compared, 102, 103, 



104 ; ' Bengals ' of commerce, 113 ; 

 Dacca, 102-8 ; Dacca muslin, 12, 107 ; 

 Dacca hand- spinning and moisture, 

 37 ; description of Roxburgh's picture 

 of Dacca cotton, 103 ; Dacca short 

 staple, 104, 105, 106, 107 ; Dacca cot- 

 ton, early andrecent opinions of, 103-7; 

 Dacca hand-spinning versus machine, 

 106, 107 ; Dacca cotton, future in- 

 vestigations of, 107 ; Dacca industry 

 2,000 years ago, 108 ; Calcutta, 108, 

 117, 127, 141, 149, 150, 152-3, 172, 

 207, 252, 256, 268, 295, 339 (see Ap- 

 pendix A) ; Pabna, 251 ; Sibgunj 

 (E. Beng.), 252; Sibpur, Calcutta, 

 252 ; Sikkim, see App. A under 

 Hooker, as also Thomson ; cross re- 

 ferences, 29, 97, 99, 101, 119, 228, 

 252 



Berar : see Bani, also Nagpur 



Berbiche a kidney cotton, 296 



' Berry Big Boll,' trade name, 237. See 

 also Staple 



Bhalia cotton, 150 



Bharadvaji, 9 



Bhoglla, 132 



' Bhownuggar,' trade name, 46. See 

 Kathiawar 



Bhutan, cotton of, 125, 252 



' Big Boll,' trade name, 238 



' Bismarck-braun,' 343 



Bolivia (Cochabamba), Cottons of, 216 ; 

 seed sent to India in 1781-90, 304, 

 314 



BOMBACEjE, 53, 56 



BOMBAX, 12, 52, 53, 59, 135 ; B. reli- 

 giosum, 204 



Bombay cottons: see Broach, Concan, 

 Deccan, Dharwar, Gujarat, Kathia- 

 war, Khandesh, India, &c. 



Borkapah cotton, 108 



Borneo (N.), cotton of, 298, 299 



Boshveld : see South Africa 



Botany, practical bearings of, 3 ; the 

 basis for successful experiment, 3 ; 

 rule of priority, 5 ; botanical know- 

 ledge important, 342 



Bote (N.) : see East Africa 



Bourbon cottons, 250-5 ; origin of name, 

 &c., 247; of Eoyle, 250; origin of, 

 253 ; distribution of, by French, 254 ; 

 failure in Bombay, 254 ; in South 

 America, 254 ; form of, 261 ; position 

 of, 266; confusion of, 325, 326; 

 cross references, 7, 46, 151, 152, 174, 

 228, 249, 262, 266, 272, 326. [For 

 early report on Cultivation in Bourbon, 

 see E.I.C. volume of Reports, &c., 

 1836, 385-97] 



' Boweds,' trade name, 45 



' Boyd,' trade name, 238 



Bracteoles, peculiarities of, value in 

 classification, &c., 7, 54, 55, 80, 244 

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