388 



WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



Bractlets, 54, 59, 65, 241-2, 257 



Bradbury, T. C. (of Gartside & Co., 

 Manchester), 37 



' Bragg Long Staple,' trade name, 

 193 



Brazil and Brazilian cottons, 295-315 ; 

 168, 211, 252, 296,298, 299, 301, 302, 

 307-8 ; appeared in England before 

 cotton of U.S., 20; grades of, 45; 

 quality terms, 47 ; and Jamaican 

 plants described, 161 ; wild, 167, 

 308; quebadinlio cotton, 256, 296, 

 309 ; plant of Marcgraf, 259 ; Bahia, 

 which see ; Ceara, which see ; Mara- 

 gan, which see ; Pernambuco, which 

 see ; Kio de Janeiro, 299 ; early writers 

 on, 300 ; of to-day, 301 ; antiquity of 

 cultivation, 304 ; first exports from, 

 303 ; in Scotch and English markets, 

 307 ; in United States, 307 ; of Koster, 

 307 : climate of, 308 ; acclimatisation 

 of Sea Island in, 310; origin of, 

 and lost popularity of, 326 ; cultiva- 

 tion neglected, 327 ; cross references, 

 17, 18, 264, 311 



British Cotton Growing Association, 

 106, 179 ; British cotton and linen 

 manufactures, 19 ; British Posses- 

 sions, expert cotton-growers sent to, 

 180 



Broach cottons, 46, 140; deshi, 148; 

 or Surat deshi grown on poor soil, 

 150. See Bombay ; also Gujerat 



' Brown,' trade name, 45 



Brown, Col. (1789), 276 



' Brown Bearded Cotton ' of Edwards, 

 250 



Bruun-a in the Amazon as, 296 



Buckrams, 14 



Buenos Ayres : see Argentine 



' Bumbast ' cotton, 14 



Burada cotton (Ind. vern. syn. for 

 Nadam, which see) 



Burden, Mrs. K., attempted cultivation 

 of O. vitifolium in S. Carolina in 

 1786, 20 



Burling, Walter, introduced Mexican 

 cotton to Mississippi, 21, 192 



Burma, Cottons of, 93, 116, 128, 144, 

 172, 323 ; Kangoon, 46, 129 ; Ava, 

 129, 296, 301. See App. A under 

 Brandis, Burkill, Griffith, Wallich, &c. 



Cachar : see Assam 



Cagliari : see Sardinia ; also Europe 



Calabria, cotton of, 46. See Europe 



Calcutta : see Bengal 



Calicos, printing securely established, 



21 ; of Masulia, 12 ; British, 21 

 Calicut, garments of people of (ninth 



century), 13. See Madras 



California and Californian wild cottons, 

 43, 63, 65-7, 70, 73. See America ; 

 also Cerros Islands 



CALOTROPIS, 12 



Camard, Arruda da, 308 



Cambay : see Gujarat 



Cambodia : see Siam 



Canara (Kanara) : see Deccan 



Canary Islands (Teneriffe), 211 



Capas of Rumphius, 114 



Cape of Good Hope : see South Africa 



Carbasa (carbasus), 9, 10, 11, 12 



Carmen Island : see Mexico 



Caroco cotton of Brazil, 309 



Carolina cotton, cultivation started 

 1733, 19, 185 ; earliest specimens 

 from, 184; seed from S. Carolina, 

 278. See America (U.S.), also Charles- 

 ton 



Carpasus : see Carbasa 



' Carthagena ' (Cartagena) cotton, 46 ; 

 with ' big boll,' 109. See Colombia 



Cartwright, discoveries by, 19 



Cassas, 14 



Caspian area, 323 



Cayenne cotton, Guiana, French, which 

 see also under Surinam 



Ceara cotton, 45, 168, 299. See Brazil 



Celebes cotton, 116, 131, 257 ; of Bum- 

 phius, 257; of Lamarck, 260. See 

 also Malay 



Central Provinces of India : see Nagpur, 

 also Bani cottons 



Cephalonia (Ionian Islands) : see Greece 



Cerros Island (Lower California), wild 

 cotton of, 63, 66 



Ceylon cotton, 84, 126, 127, 139, 140, 

 147, 257 



CIENFUEGOSIA PENTAPHYLLA, 

 Schum., 132 



' Chaco Cluster,' trade name, 232 



' Chain Cotton ' : see Kidney, also O, 

 brasiliense 



Chamba : see Panjab 



Chanduy : see Peru 



Charara (Egyptian) cotton, 292 



Charleston (South Carolina), early ex- 

 portation of cotton from, 20 ; em- 

 porium of Sea Island, 278-9 



Chatham Island : see Galapagos 



' Cheise,' trade name, 238 



Chelsea Physic Gardens, cotton grown 

 at, 98, 184, 186-7. See England 



Chemistry : see Fibre 



China and Chinese cotton, 114-139 ; 81, 

 83, 97, 98, 127, 184, 298 ; eleventh to 

 thirteenth century introduction of 

 cultivation, 13, 118. 123, 323 ; grades 

 in trade of, 46 ; Shanghai, 98, 116, 

 132, 185; Yunan, 116; Pekin, 116, 

 117, 121 ; Yangtzekiang, 116 ; Macao, 

 117 ; introduction into Bengal from, 

 118; Pakhoi,, 185 



