A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world : including the structural and economic classifications of fibers . of Lylirids aud formsmore or less closely related. The cottous called uaukeeu are ouly color variatiousof the above, aud luay be fuiiud in uearly every species that is cultivated. Author-ities agree that iu all probability the yellow liut is the wild forui of all cottons, audthis character cau not be used to designate species. (r. arhoretim Linn, is a shrubby perennial, but iu cultivation sometimes annual orbiennial; fiber, two forms; one white, long, overlying a dark
A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world : including the structural and economic classifications of fibers . of Lylirids aud formsmore or less closely related. The cottous called uaukeeu are ouly color variatiousof the above, aud luay be fuiiud in uearly every species that is cultivated. Author-ities agree that iu all probability the yellow liut is the wild forui of all cottons, audthis character cau not be used to designate species. (r. arhoretim Linn, is a shrubby perennial, but iu cultivation sometimes annual orbiennial; fiber, two forms; one white, long, overlying a dark-green or black down;not readily separable from the seed. This species of cotton appears to be indigenousto India and the regions bordering on the Indian Ocean. According to Watt it isfound near temples and in gardens, where it is said to be in llower most of the plant is a perennial, lasting for five or six years or longer, and is not used as afield crop. The fiber is fine, silky, and an inch or more in length, but little of it isproduced. The cultural name gi\en it is Nurma or Ueo cotton, aud its use is said to. Fui. 60.—TTplami cotton. be restricted to making thread for the turbans of the jiriestly class. Its value issaid to be greatly overrated. This species is sometimes known as G. rdiijiosum. G. iiejlectiim Tod.: This species, indigenous to India, is very similar to G. arho-rtitm, and by some is thought to be a hybrid between that species and some other, orit may bo only a cultural form of the first. It is a large bush, although sometimesonly 18 inches in height, aud is extensively grown in India as a field crop. It is theDacca cotton of Royle and Roxburgh and the China cotton of the same species is cultivated in Bengal, the Punjab, and the Northwest Provinces, andit constitutes to a large extent the Bengal cotton of commerce. Todaro has sepa-rated from the species two varieties—roxhiirghiaiium and chmense—corresponding tothe Dacca and China co
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