28 ~=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, (January, 1909. 
TABLE IV. 
A. B. 
| 
Intervals. 
No. of days from sowing No. indica- 
|No. indica \N 
to flowering. a | tive of type | ae _ tive of type 
P lof branching. of branching. 
i} | 
| | 
Above 170 talons 92 | | esd ae a 
166 — 170 | 3 91 2. 87 
161. — 165 4 | 87 3 75 
1566 — 160 13 | 79 51 40 
161 — 185 16 62 or 69 
Me 5 156 13] 57 9 | 50 
14... as 14 | 54 9 | 44 
i986. = 146 beg ae 64 $3 | 30 
138 = — 136 b> 9B HES Sede: | 21 
it en | -g9 | 20 fe 15 
A). = 15 37 | 6 4h ZA 2 
16 °° S25" 199 43 i 36 I 
1k = 5 115 46 ae a 0 
101 106 = 3 gar poy 0 
below 101 i 1 eae pei | is 
in which the plants have been arranged according to the 
number of days to flowering, which period is divided into five 
assigned to each of the four groups are 100 (monopodial type), 
75, 50, and 0 (sympodial type). The value for each interval is 
es. The tw 
clearly show a considerable dependence of the flowering character 
upon the type of secondary branching. 
3. ification—The method of branching appears to 
form a very distinctive characteristic and to be of sufficient 
oT ae 
1 Of these five plants two are of the sympodial type. One of these 
was dwarfed, and the date of appearance of first flower consequently very 
late. The second produced flower iti i 
ches lants, which appear somewhat 
abnormal, the figure for this interval is sbestrasslly low _— 
