248 © Plants of the Punjab. 
Heras, Erect, wirh ALTERNATE STIPULATE LOBED LEAVES. 
Rumex acetosa, 
PoLYGONACER. 
2. 1.-v. 60. 
Himalaya, 
8-12,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Cannabis sativa, 
Indian Hemp, 
Bhang. 
URTICACER. 
Bee. Ly, 487; 
The Plains to 
9,000 ft. 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Simla (Collett). 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Girardinia 
heterophylla, 
Kert, kal, bhabar. 
URTICACER. 
FH. B..1. vy. 560, 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Hazara (Barrett). 
Simla (Collett). 
PETALS NONE. 
stamens 6, styles 3. stigmas fringed ; nuts sharply 3-angled, 
brown, enclosed in the 3 inner segments of the calyx. 
This plant is used as a pot herb. 
hike the last species, but male and female flowers on 
separate plants, branches few, racemes leafless, outer sepals 
reflexed. 
large, annual, stems grooved, felted, branches few, 
erect, slender, a common weed. aso cultivated; leaves 
4-8 in. diam., opposite, stalked, much divided, upper leaves 
1-5-lobed, lower 5-11-lobed,  linear-lanceolate, middle 
lobe longest, coarsely and sharply toothed, long-pointed, 
wedge-shaped at the base, dark green above, downy below, 
stipules lateral, awl-shaped, bristly ; flowers greenish-yellow, 
small, male and female on separate plants, males clustered 
in short, axillary, drooping branched racemes, calyx of 
5 segments, segments boat-shaped, petals ncne, stamens 
5, filaments long, thread-like, females crowded, sessile 
in the axils of leafy bracts, style-arms 2, thread-like ; achenes 
;'z in., flattened, hard, enclosed in the persistent bracts. 
The intoxicating drugs, ganja and charas, consist of the 
resin obtained from the stem, young leaves and flowers, 
bhany is merely the dried leaves and achenes. Hemp 
is obtained from the fibrous stems. 
large, annual, root perennial, stem and branches 
furrowed, covered with very long stinging hairs like a 
nettle ; leaves 4-12 in. long and broad, long-stalked, 3- 
nerved from the base, broadly ovate, upper leaves 8-5- 
lobed, heart-shaped at the base, sharply toothed, stipules 
large, united, leaf-like, divided at the tip; flowers small, 
green, sessile, closely crowded, male and female on the same 
or separate plants, when male and female are together 
the male are in nearly cylindric clusters on the lower part 
of the spike, and the female in clustered heads in the upper 
part, when separate, male in long slender often branched 
spikes, and female in short oblong spikes, in fruit becoming 
thick and densely bristly ; male flowers, calyx of 4 sepals, 
petals none, stamens 4, female flowers calyx tubular with 
a small 3-toothed mouth, splitting in fruit, style long, 
