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+2 T. politoria, / Janch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, X, 326; Ind. 
Trees 597 ; F. B. I. V., 484; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2) 362 ; Gamble 
Man. 63] ; Collett Fl. Siml. 456; Prain Beng. Pl. 960. Sponia 
politoria /lanch.; Brandis, For. Fl. 430.—Vern. Kagshi, kurt 
(Dehra Dun), Kharda (Saharanpur), jaun and bdtu (Bijnor), 
banharria (Oudh) rabna (Merwara). 
A small sparingly branched evergreen tree with a short trunk and 
stout branchlets which are scabrid with firm white hairs swollen 
at the base. Leaves bifarious, 2-5 in. long, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, serru late, very scabrous on both surfaces, dark-green 
and usually shining above, paler beneath ; base nearly equal, rounded 
or cordate, 3-nerved ; petiole } in. long, stipules exceeding the petioles. 
Flowers in compact cymes, usually moneecious. Drupe globose, 
seated on the persistent perianth. 
Dehra Dun and Siwalik range and eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan 
tracts of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh; also in Merwara (Lowrie). 
Flowers April-June. Distrrp.: Salt range of Punjab and lower 
Himalayan valleys eastwards to Bhutan; Bengal, C. India and 
Mt. Abu in Rajputana. This tree. like the preceding, is very useful 
for planting on landslips. The foliage affords good fodder for cattle, 
and the inner bark yields « strong fibre. The hard rough leaves are 
much used for polishing wood and ivory. 
4. CANNABIS, Tournef.; Fl. Brit. Ind. V, 487. 
A tall annual. Leaves alternate or the lower opposite, upper 
1-3-, lower 5-11l-partite, penninerved ; lobes lanceolate, serrate ; 
stipules lateral. Flowers small, diccious, rarely moneecious ; 
males in axillary panicled cymes; females in axillary racemes ; 
bracts in females convolute, leafy. Maer flowers. Sepals 5, 
imbricate. Stamens 5, erect in bud; filaments filiform, anthers 
oblong. Pistillode none, FEM. flowers. / erianth hyaline, embrac- 
ing the base of the ovary. Ovary sessile, of 2 carpels, 1 fertile 
and | sterile, 1-locular; ovwle pendulous, reversed, campylotropous ; 
style central; arms 2, filiform, caducous. Fruit a somewhat 
compressed crustaceous nut. Seed somewhat flattened ; albumen 
unilateral, fleshy, embryo curved; cotyledons broad, thick ;. 
radicle upcurved, incumbent.—A single species, wild in Central 
Asia, and possibly in Northern India. 
