Cannabis. | CXXIIIn. CANNABINACEZ (Rendle). 17 
Prodr. xvi. i. 30; Monteiro, Angola, ii. 256; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 
261; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 162 and Monogr. Morac. Afr. 44; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 994; Durand & Schinz, Btudes Fl. Congo, 
248; De Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. 214; De Wild. Miss. 
Laurent. 72; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 501; Fries, 
Wiss. Ergebn.’ Schwed. Rhodes.-Kong.-Exped. 1911-12, i. 18; 
Bentley & Trimen, Medic. Pl. iv. 231. 
Hemp. Native of Asia; widely cultivated. Recorded from the following 
localities in tropical Africa. : 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Welwitsch, 6275d ! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Nandi Country, James! British East Africa : 
Kavirondo, Scott Elliot, 7051 ! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Moller, 148! French Congo : Loango, 
Chinchosho, Soyauz, 198! Gaboon: Gaboon River, Mann, 1050! Angola : 
Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 6275c ! Golungo Alto ; Sange, Welwitsch, 6275 ! (a 
specimen with both male and female flowers) ; Mukenge, Pogge, 1333. Lower 
Congo : Stanley Pool, Bittner, 293; Bingila, Dupuis. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Welle River, Dewevre; Kasai, Manghe 
and Butala, Laurent. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Amboni, Holst, 2685! Usaramo, 
Stuhlmann, 6389; Ussukuma, Stuhlmann, 4671; Karagwe near Kafuro, Stuhl- 
mann, 1724; Mininga, Speke and Grant, 75! Portuguese East Africa: Quili- 
mane, Stuhlmann; Shamo, Kirk! Luabo River, Kirk! Rhodesia: Victoria, 
Monro, 960! Bangweolo, Fries, 723. 
Orper CXXIIc. MORACEAE. 
(By J. Hurcuinson anp A. B. RENDLE.) 
Flowers unisexuaJ, moncecious or dicecious, regular; perianth- 
Segments typically 4, calycine, persistent, free or more or less 
united and representing two dimerous whorls, sometimes much 
reduced or absent, valvate or imbricate. Male flower: Stamens 
generally equal in number and opposite to the sepals, sometimes 
fewer ; filaments inflexed in the bud or straight; anthers opening 
longitudinally ; rudiment of ovary present or absent. Female 
flower: Ovary superior or more or less inferior; carpels 2, the 
posterior rarely developed or represented by an empty chamber, 
generally 1-celled; ovule solitary, pendulous from the apex of 
the cell with an upwardly directed micropyle, more rarely basal and 
erect ; styles 2, or only the anterior one developed, filiform and 
stigmatose on the inner face, more rarely peltate. Fruit small, an 
achene, nut or drupe, enveloped by the accrescent perianth or buried 
in the succulent receptacle ; endosperm present or absent ; embryo 
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