16 CXXIIIzs. CANNABINACEZ (Rendle). [Cannabis. 
Orper CXXIIIs. CANNABINACEZ:. 
(By A. B. RENDLE.) 
Flowers dicecious, rarely monecious, regular, apetalous. Male: 
Perianth deeply 5-partite, calycine; segments imbricate. Stamens 
5, opposite to the sepals. Filaments short, not inflexed ; anthers 
erect in bud, 2-celled, dehiscence longitudinal. Female: Calyx 
small, cup-like, loosely investing the ovary, entire; staminodes 
absent. Ovary superior, 1-celled, bearing at the apex a pair of 
long filiform stigmas; ovule solitary, pendulous from the apex 
of the cell, anatropous, with two integuments. Fruit dry, indehis- 
cent. Endosperm scanty, oily. Embryo rolled or curved.—Aromatic 
herbs, perennial and twining, or annual, without latex. Leaves 
opposite or alternate, long-stalked, palminerved ; stipules lateral, 
free, persistent. Flowers small, in axillary cymes, many-flowered in 
the male, few-flowered in the female. 
Species 3, in the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere, introduced 
elsewhere. 
1. CANNABIS, Tourn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 357. 
Flowers: Male numerous, shortly stalked, in lax drooping 
terminal and axillary panicles. Sepals free, spreading or reflexed, 
oblong. Anthers large, pendulous. Female fewer, in erect short 
spikes leafy below, each flower sessile in the axil of a small enveloping 
bract. Calyx inconspicuous, very thin, closely applied to and 
shorter than the ovary. Ovary ovoid; stigmas long, protruding. 
Fruit small, indehiscent, enclosed in the persistent bract, compressed - 
ovoid ; seed conforming to the thin crustaceous pericarp. Embryo 
strongly curved; cotyledons fleshy—An aromatic annual herb. 
Leaves alternate, or the lower opposite, palmately divided into 
narrow spreading leaflets ; stipules linear, acute. 
1. C. sativa, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1027. A densely leaved plant ; 
stem erect, 3-10 ft. or more high, simple or slightly branched, slender, 
somewhat rough with short stiffish hairs, greyish-green. Leaves 
long-stalked, leaflets 5-7 or more, reduced to 3 in the upper leaves, 
linear-lanceolate, attenuate at apex and base, margin sharply 
serrate, the middle one the longest, from 3-6 in. in length, the lateral 
successively shorter, scabridulous and dark green above, pale and 
finely pubescent beneath ; petiole slender, hirtellous. Male flowers 
yellowish-green. Sepals puberulous on the back, 3 in. long; female 
flower sheathed by a hirsute bract from which protrude the 
long filiform stigmas. Fruit 14-2 lin. long, smooth, pale greyish- 
brown.—Welw. Apont. 547 and Synops. Explic. 45; Alph. DC. 
