BOTANY. 193 



carbon, and probably hydrogen combined with it, suitable 

 tor the food of the plant. And the next best soil is one 

 containing carbonate of lime." 

 Gossyp ium b arbadcnse. 

 Var. (a) 13 arb aches, or Bourbon cotton. 

 " (b) Sea Island, or long stapled " 

 il (c) Upland Georgia, cr slwrt stapled " 



HEMP. 



Near the Burmese villages large fields of a yellow-flowered 

 plant, as tall as wheat, may be often seen, which is called 

 hemp. In Hindustan it is called Bengal flax. Although 

 the stems of the plant produce a substance analagous to 

 flax or hemp, it bears no relation to those plants, but is a 

 species of crotalaria, a leguminous plant. The true hemp 

 though occasionally grown to a small extent, is never 

 fabricated into cloth. 



Crotalaria jun cea- 



NETTLE HEMP. 



In the neighborhood of Ava a substitute for hemp is 

 diffused, belonging to the genus urtica, which was cul- 

 tivated for several years by Major Macfarquhar at Tavoy, 

 who endeavoured to induce the natives to foster it, but it 

 has not yet been brought into general culture. Colonel 

 Burney said that the Burmese at Ava called it goun. 

 Urtica tenacissima. 

 g-Sa 



SIDA HEMP. 



The most troublesome weed in Tavoy produces a very 

 fine hemp or flax. There are two species, but they are 

 not usually distinguished. 



Sida acuta. 



q)£o§ccoSn ooj5&io8»_ 



Sida stipulata. 



qjSo^ccoSoQyii coS&ioSii 



URENA HEMP. 



Another weed which abounds all over the Coast serves 



