772 DIOE CIA PENTANDRIA, Cannabis. 
ternate, the lower ones very long-petioled, variously lobed 
with lobes of an acute triangular shape, smooth on both sides. 
Mare. Flowers on long terminal glomerate spikes, and on 
shorter ones from the axills ; very numerous, sessile. Calyx 
four-parted. Stamens four. Anthers twin, very large. Fr- 
MALE. Flowers axillary, sessile, crowded. Calyx two-tipped, 
with a projecting horn in each side, growing into spines when 
the seed is ripe. Styles generally four, white, tapering. Cap- 
sule one-celled, one-valved, armed, with two opposite short 
horns, and crowned with the small remaining calyx. 
CANNABIS. Schreb. gen. N. 1522. 
Mate. Calyx five-parted. Corol none. Fema.e, Calyx 
one-leaved, entire, opening on the side. Corol none. Styles 
two, Seed solitary, shut in the calyx. Embryo i in- 
verse, without Leia sae 
C. sativa, Willd. iv. 768. 
~ Sans, Banga, or Ganjika. 
- Arab, Kinnab, 
Hind, and Pers, Bang. 
Beng, Ganga. 
Teling. Ganjai. 
Cannabis Indica, Rumph, Amb. v. t. 77. 
- Kalengi cansjava. Rheed. Mal. x. t. 60, the male; Tayera 
cansjava, t. 61. the female. . 
Indigenous amongst the hills and mountains north of India, 
and common every where in the gardens of the natives 
throughout Asia. The leaves of the male plant, as. well as 
the flowers of the female are dried, and mixed with to~ 
bacco for smoking. They also bruise and mix with water 
for drinking the flowers of the male plant; this preparation 
is called Siddhee, They are all powerfully narcotic. © The 
bark they make no use of in India, though equally strong, 
when carefully prepared, as the hemp ef Russia, But 
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