INDEX 



393 



constant in Gossypium than in allied 

 genera, 57 ; extra floral, 77, 163, 244, 

 316 



Glasgow, former demand for kidney 

 cotton in, 307 



Ooghari race, description of, 148-50 ; 

 versus Uppam, 151 ; and Wagria, 

 flosses of, 152. See Gujarat, also 

 Kathiawar 



Gold Coast cotton, cultivation and trade 

 of, 171, 176, 178, 179, 185, 215. See 

 also Africa, West 



Gondal : see Gujarat and Kathiawar 



Gongachora, cotton of, 93 



' Good Middling , = ' G.M.,' 47 



' Good Ordinary ' = ' G.O.,' 47 



Goradu : see Soil 



Gorakhpur : see Agra and Oudh 



Gosse : see Australia 



Gossampine,' ' Gossympines,' and Gos- 

 sypion (cloth and wool), 11, 12,59-60, 

 159, 304 



GOSSYPIUM, characteristics of genus, 

 &c., 52-60 ; number of species, 2, 4, 

 5 ; species of early botanists first 

 made known, 3, 306 ; confusion of, 4 ; 

 first picture of each species of, 6 ; 

 allied genera compared, 55 ; separa- 

 tion of species of, 147 ; species used 

 by sugar planters for lamp wicks, 

 189 ; reduction of species to one, 248, 

 274 ; by Hamilton to two or three, 2, 

 99, 203, 321 ; by Bentham and Hooker 

 to three, 4 ; by Alliotta to five, 321, 

 332 ; by Todaro to fifty-four, 4, 321 ; 

 by Parlatore to seven, 321 ; by 

 Gammie (Indian species) to one, 5, 

 332 ; and by Evans (economic species) 

 to five, 273-4 ; peculiarities of long 

 acclimatised species, 320 ; imperfect 

 knowledge of, 329 



GOSSYPIUM AEBOREUM, Linn., 81- 

 114 ; also App. C, p. 379 ; not suc- 

 cessfully acclimatised in New World, 

 81 ; varieties and races of, 87, 90- 

 114; colour of type condition, 89; 

 ancient cultivation of, 84, 90, 146, 

 322 ; wrong determination by Rox- 

 burgh, 99 ; of Africa, 155, 311, 328. 

 Var. assamica, Watt, 108-112 ; value 

 inhybridisation, 110-2. Var. neglecta, 

 Watt, 95-108, early carried to America, 

 81 ; carried to West Indies, 81, 101 ; 

 survival in America after 300 years, 

 101 ; Dacca cotton, 102-8 ; cultiva- 

 tion in East Africa, 155. Var. rosea, 

 Watt, 112-114. Var. sanguinea, Watt, 

 91-5 



GOSSYPIUM BAEBADENSE, Linn., 

 265-95 ; also App. C, p. 379 ; com- 

 pared with G. Davidsonii, 69 ; 

 Egyptian races of, 223 ; failure in 

 Eussian Turkestan, 240 ; diagnostic 



characters, 245, 266, 271; earliest 

 stock possibly a cultivated state of G. 

 vitifolium, 256, 261, 273, 281 ; special 

 races of 264-5, 266-8, 281 ; geo- 

 graphical distribution of 267, 271 ; 

 the type, 268-70, 325 ; Wright's story 

 of production of annual stock, 271-2 ; 

 cultivation in West Indies, 273, 305, 

 335 ; hybrids of, 274, 281, 332 ; in 

 Madagascar, 293 ; and G. brasiliense, 

 separation of, 297. Var. maritima, 

 Watt, 275-95. See also Sea Island 



GOSSYPIUM BEASILIENSE, Mac/., 

 295-315 ; also App. C, p. 380 ; a 

 probable ancestor of Sea Island, 225 ; 

 diagnostic characters of, 245 ; asso- 

 ciation with maritima, 277 ; habitat 

 and distribution of, 246-7, 298 ; indi- 

 genous and feral states, 298, 304, 

 306, 308, 311-2, 328-9 ; early mention 

 of, 161, 299-302, 322, 326; vern. 

 and trade names for, 296, 300, 301, 

 308-9 ; types and pictures of, 300-2 ; 

 in America, 302-10 ; in West Indies, 

 305-7, 335 ; in Malaya and Polynesia, 

 311 ; in Africa, 166, 300, 311-12, 328 ; 

 in Egypt, 166, 312-13 ; in India, 167, 

 313-15 ; in Europe, 300, 306 ; dis- 

 placed by Upland and Sea Island, 

 300 ; climate and soil best suited to, 

 310 ; immunity to disease, 310 ; con- 

 fusion by Eoxburgh, 314 ; compared 

 with G. Kirkii, 317 ; hybrids and 

 hybridisation of, 259, 306, 317, 325, 

 335; pollen-grains in, 346-7, 348. 

 See also under Kidney Cotton 



GOSSYPIUM DAEWINII, Watt, 68-9 



GOSSYPIUM DAVIDSONII, Kellogg, 

 65-66, 319 



GOSSYPIUM DBYNAEIOIDES, Seem., 

 71-3 



GOSSYPIUM FBUTICULOSUM,- Tod., 

 206 ; diagnostic characters of, 164 ; 

 resemblance to G. Palmerii, 205 



GOSSYPIUM HAEKNESSII, Brandg., 

 73 ; seeds of, 55, 319 



GOSSYPIUM HEEBACEUM, Linn., 

 155-163 ; also App. C, p. 380 ; 

 habitat and distribution of (Levantine 

 cotton), 15, 16, 143, 157, 192, 322-3 ; 

 trade names and grades, 46; cotton 

 first grown in Europe, 158-9, 162; 

 early in Eussia, 158, 239 ; in Egypt, 

 159 ; in Abyssinia, 158 ; in Arabia, 

 158, 159, 161 ; in Asia Minor, 159-62 ; 

 in United States, 160-3, 196, 338; 

 not grown in India but in Afghanistan 

 and Beluchistan, 146, 157 ; confused 

 by Eoxburgh, 162 ; inferior stock to 

 green-seeded cotton, 187, and to vine- 

 leaved, 259 ; separation from G. micro- 

 carpum, 211. See also Levantine 

 cotton 



