33. Corchorus capsularis var. oocarpus—a new variety 
of the common jute plant. 
By I. H. Burxity and R. 8. Frntow. 
On the left is the fruit of the variety here described: on the right 
fruit of the type for comparison. Both natural size. 
We describe here a variety of the common jute plant, 
which was detected by one of us (R.S. F.) a year ago (1910), 
among the jute crops of south-eastern Mymensingh, and which 
has, since then, been studied in cultivation. Its local name is 
Baupdt and it differs from’ the type in the elongation of its 
fruit, as figured above. It does not differ in other respects ; 
even having the same number of seeds as has the type. 
appears to be about midway between early and late! as regards 
its time of ripening, being, in the latter respect, as well as 
Parbatya of Mymensingh. The cultivators seem to keep it pure 
and they regard it as the best race for cultivation on higher 
lands, which are not deeply inundated during the rainy season. 
support: the two species we hold are conspicuously different in 
fruit, as well as in flower and foliage; and though var. oocarpus 
1 Vide our ‘‘ Races of Jute,’’ in the Agricultural Ledger, No. 6 of 
1907, pp. 80—85. 
2 , Commercial Products of India, 1908, p. 406; and in Journal 
of the Royal Society of Arts, lvi, 1908. p. 264. 
