Humulus, | CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 487 
sepals, erect in bud.  Pistillode 0. Fem. FL. Sepal, a membranous scale. 
Ovary sessile, compressed; styles 2,* subulate; ovule pendulous, cam- 
pylotropous. Fruit an ovoid spike! of imbricating bracts in the axils of 
which are 2 flattened achenes each enclosed in its sepal. Albumen scanty 
or 0; embryo a flat helix.—Species one Chinese and Japanese, and the 
following. 
_H. Luputus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1028; bracts and bracteoles scarious covered 
with resinous glands. 4. DC. Prodr. xvi.i.29; Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. 
lv. 290; Reichd. Ic. Fl. Germ. xii. t. 656. 
Nonra-Wast HIMALAYA, cultivated. Native of N. America, and perhaps of 
» Asia, 
i_ Rootstock stout, branched ; stems tall, scabrid or prickly with reversed bristles. 
aves 3-4 in. diam., petioled, cordate, toothed, upper ovate, lower 3-5-lobed. 
Male ft, 1 in. diam. ; panicles 3-5 in. across. Fem. heads } in. diam., yellow ; styles 
purple; fruiting 1} in. diam., scales orbicular.—The Hop. 
6. CANNABIS, Tourncf. 
A tall erect annual herb. Leaves alternate or the lower opposite, upper 
l-3- lower 5-11-partite, serrate, palmatinerved ; stipules lateral. Flowers 
small, axillary, dicecious, males fascicled in short pendulous panicles ; fem. 
crowded under leafy convolute bracts. Mair ru. Sepals 5, imbricate. 
tamens 5, erect in bud. Pistillode 0. Fem. ru. Perianth hyaline, 
embracing the ovary or €. Ovary sessile; style central, arms 2 filiform 
caducous; ovule pendulous. Achene compressed, crustaceous. Seed flat- 
tened, albumen unilateral fleshy ; embryo curved, cotyledons broad thick 
subequal, radicle upcurved incumbent. 
C. sativa, Zinn. Sp. Pl. 1027; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 772; Grah. Cat. 
Bomb. Pl. 187; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 30; Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. iv. 
231; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 655; Wall. Cat. 4665. C. indica, Lamk. 
Encycl, i. 695.— Rheede Hort. Mal. x. 60, 61. 
Throughout INp1A; wild in the N.-W. Himalaya, cultivated elsewhere.— DISTRIB. 
entral Asia, wild; cultivated in{temp. and trop. regions. 
Stem 4-8 ft., strict, subsimple. Zeaves 4-8 in. diam. Flowers green.—Hemp ; 
Produces cordage, and Bhang or Kief. 
7. PSEUDOSTREBLUS, Bureau. 
, Unarmed glabrous trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, penninerved ; 
stipules small, lateral, caducous. Flowers moncecious, axillary, males in 
Short cymes, fem. 4-bracteolate, solitary in different axils, or solitary in the 
male cyme. MALE rr. Sepals 5, orbicular, imbricate. Stamens 5, inflexed 
in bud. Pistillode small, linear. Frem. FL. Sepals 4, orbicular, concave, 
embracing the ovary. Ovary subglobose; style terminal, arms 2 filiform 
subequal ; ovule pendulous. Fruit (unripe) enclosed in the enlarged 
Perianth.—Species 3, Eastern Indian and Malayan. 
P. indica, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 220; leaves elliptic oblong 
9r oblong-lanceolate acuminate base acute, nerves very many parante 
up horizontal and anastomosing.—Epicarpurus, No. 8, Herb. Ind. Or. 
