INDEX 



405 



342 ; early stock, see Early, also Late 

 Maturity Plants ; of fibre (mercer- 

 ising), see Fibre ; importance of 

 naked seeded, see Seed; wild (an- 

 cestral types versus cultivated), see 

 Indigenous. See also Sea Island, Up- 

 lands, &c. 



Stone cotton : see Kidney 



'Storm Proof, 1 trade name, 241. See 

 Staple 



St. Thomas : see West Indies 



St. Vincent : see Antilles 



Suakim : see Egypt 



Sugar plant, displaced cotton in West 

 Indies (1780), 335 ; industry (1657), 

 187 ; recent results in hybridisation 

 of, 341 



' Sunflower,' trade name for a long 

 staple Upland cotton. See Plate 

 No. 42, p. 236 



Sunerwara, India, cotton of, 95 



Superstition regarding cotton, 311 



Surat, cotton of, 14, 46, 89, 140, 144, 

 150 ; finest grade of, 148. See 

 Bombay, also Gujarat 



Surinam (Guiana, Dutch) cottons, 256- 

 65 ; 20-1, 271, 272-3, 287, 299 ; 

 plant a possible new species, 256 ; 

 Linnean specimen from, 301 ; com- 

 pared with Brazilian, 306; experi- 

 ments in India with, 312 



Switzerland, cotton of, 159 



Synonyms : see App. C 



Synspermia of Todaro, 253, 262 



Syrian cotton, 15, 86, 156, 157, 158. 

 See Asia Minor 



Tahiti (Society Islands), cotton of, 45, 



249, 252, 268. See also Polynesia 

 Tanganika : see East (Central) Africa 

 Teasdale, John and Isaac & Co., 20 

 Tech, Amazonas vern. name, 296 

 Telingana, cotton in, 13 

 Tellapatti, syn. for Uppam, which see 

 Teneriffe : see Canaries 

 ' Tennessee," trade name, 45 

 Tette : see Zambesi 

 Texas and Texas cotton, 45 ; wild cotton 



of, 17 ; varieties of Uplands in, 238, 



241, 243 



Themban-wa of Burkill, 296, 315 

 THESPESIA, 43, 53, 54, 55, 63, 73 ; 



T. Dams, 72 



' Thrush,' trade name, 238 

 THUBBEBIA, 53, 54, 56, 63, 345; 



cotton closely allied to, 63 

 Tidki, 132 

 Tiffinia, 132 

 TILIACE^J, 52 

 Tinnevelly : see Madras 

 Tipki, 96, 98, 99 

 ' Toale,' trade name, 234 

 ' Todd,' trade name, 236 



Togo-land, cotton of, 215 ; cotton culti- 

 vation in, 180; Sea Island in, 293. 

 See Africa, West (German) 



Tonga Islands : see Polynesia 



Tonje kaja (or cadja), African vern. 

 name, 135, 154 ; tonje manga, 183, 

 185, 196 



Trade : see Commerce, also Industry 



Tranquebar : see Madras 



Trancaucasian cotton, 118, 123-4, 125 ; 

 Aschabad, 185 



Tree cottons, 12-14, 71-2, 85, 86, 91, 100, 

 107, 114, 297, 311, 315; of Tylos, 

 10-1, 60 ; of India and Africa, 13-14, 

 82, 87 ; of Hawaii, 72 ; of Senaar, 

 112-13, 114, 138 ; of Marco Polo, 13- 

 14, 135-6 ; of Sind, 136 ; of Soudan, 

 138, 312 ; of Egypt (Jumel's), 166 ; of 

 Jamaica, 185, 216 ; of Brazil (Zanoni's 

 picture), 300. See also Perennial 

 Cottons and cf. with Shrub Cottons 



Trinidad : see West Indies 



' Triumph," trade name, 237 



' Truitt,' trade name, 238 



Tula, a Sanskrit name, 9, 10 



Tundikeri, a Sanskrit name, 9 



Turkey, cotton conveyed to probably by 

 Saracens, 16 ; ' Turkey kind,' 19. See 

 also Asia Minor 



Tut cotton, 311 



Tylos : see Tree Cottons 



' Tyler," trade name, 238 



Uganda, wild cotton of, 311 



Ukkam : see Uppam 



Ukoko, cotton of the Congo, 214, 215 



United Provinces of India : see Agra 



Upland cottons, 186-8, 192-6, 231-41 ; 

 22, 45, 55, 167, 229, 274, 324, 326 ; 

 classification of, 231-9 ; short staple : 

 see Staple ; long staple : see Staple ; 

 supposed origin of Upland varieties 

 in U.S., 243. See O. hirsutum, New 

 Orleans, and Q. mexicanum, Georgian 

 (the bulk of the Uplands are the latter 

 rather than the former) ; aZso America 



Uppam (or ukkam or rekkam) cottons 

 (O. obtusifolium, var. Wightiana, race 

 Uppam, which see), 129, 130, 146, 151- 

 153 ; of Tinnevelly, 149 ; uppam-par- 

 thi-chedi, 151 ; and tellapatti cottons, 

 comparison of, 153 



UBENE.E, UBENA, 53 



Ushtarzai : see Afghanistan 



Varadi cotton (0. arboreum, var. rosea, 

 hybrid, which see also under Bani), 

 112-114 ; origin of, 111, 113, 133, 151 

 Vadara, a Sanskrit name for, 9 

 Vellai-kanni-parthi-chedi, 130, 153 

 Yerawal : see Gujarat and Kathiawar 



