140 FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 
opposite. Leaflets five to seven, lanceolate, acuminate, serrated; 
outer one the smallest. Male flowers in small, loose racemes 
or spikes, at the ends of the stem or branches. Female flowers, 
axillary, solitary, very small; both kinds sometimes occur on 
the same plant, but always one of them very few in proportion 
to the other. All the old authors ignorantly call the male flowers 
female, and vice versd. The leaves in India are chiefly employed 
for making Bhang and Jubzees, of which the intoxicating powers 
are well known; but a peculiar substance is collected by the 
natives pressing the upper part of the young plant between 
their hands, and then scraping off the secretion which adheres ; 
this is known under the name of Chenus, end is so esteemed 
by Asiatics that they prefer it to wine or opium. According 
to Dr. Royle, the Cannabis Sativa and Indica are the same 
plant, only differing in the effects of its preparation from the 
difference of climate. 
GrocrapuicaL Distrisurion.—Herodotus mentions the 
Cannabis as a Scythian plant. Beerberstein met with it in the 
Caucasus. Dr. Royle describes it as a plant of Persian origin, 
and subjected to the severest cold in winter, and the greatest 
heat in summer. It is well known in Bokhara, Persia, and 
the Himalayas. Father Hamelin found it in the Illinois in 
North America. Cultivated in Russia and the north of Europe 
extensively, for commercial purposes; also in France and the 
south of Italy. It is observed that a difference exists between 
plants grown in the plains and those on the mountains, and also 
when grown thickly together. The peculiar principle of the 
plant is found wanting or very much weakened in those plants 
which are grown in a very moist climate and thickly together. 
Cannabis Indica, according to Dr. Royle, only a variety of 
the C. Sativa. Leaves alternate. Stem nearly cylindrical, 
smaller, more branched, and harder than the preceding species. 
Leaves all constantly alternate. Leaflets linear, lanceolate, very 
sharp-pointed ; in the male plants five to seven, in the females 
commonly but three, on a petiole, near the top, entirely simple. 
