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Cannabis.] cxxiiib. cannabinace.^ (Rendle). 17 



Prodr. xvi. i. 30; Monteiro, Angola, ii. 2oG ; Ficalho, PI. Utcis, 

 261 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 162 and Monogr. Morac. Afr. 44 ; Hiern m 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 994 ; Durand & Schinz, :fitude.s Fl. Congo, 

 248; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 214; De Wild. Miss 

 Laurent. 72 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 501 ; Fries, 

 Wlss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhodes.-Kong.-Exped. 1911-12, i. 18; 

 Bentley & Trimen, Medic. PI. iv. 231. 



Hemp. Native of Asia ; widely cultivated. Recorded from the following 

 localities in tropical Africa. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Welwitsch, 6275d ! 



Nile Land. Uganda : Nandi Country, James ! British East Africa : 

 Kavirondo, Scott Elliot, 7051 ! 



Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Moller, 148 ! French Congo : Loango, 

 (Jhinchosho, Soyauz, 198 ! Gaboon : Gaboon River, Mann, 1050 ! Angola : 

 Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 6275c ! Golungo Alto ; Sange, Welwitsch, 6275 ! (a 

 specimen with both male and female flowers) ; Mukenge, Pogge, 1333. Lower 

 Congo : Stanley Pool, Buttner, 293 ; Bingila, Dwpuis. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Welle River, Dew()vre ; Kasai, Manghe 

 and ButaJa, Laurent. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Amboni, Hoist, 2685 ! Usaramo^ 

 Stuhlmann, 6389; Ussukuma, Stuhlmann, 4671 ; Karagwe near Kafuro, Stuhl- 

 mann, 1724 ; Mininga, Speke and Grant, 75 ! Portuguese East Africa : Quili- 

 mane, Stuhlmann ; Shamo, Kirk ! Luabo River, Kirk ! Rhodesia : Victoria, 

 Monro, 960 ! Bangweolo, Fries, 723. 



Order CXXIIIr. MORACEiE. 



(By J. Hutchinson and A. B. Rendle.) 



Flowers unisexual, monoecious or dioecious, regular; perianth- 

 segments typically 4, calycine, persistent, free or more or less 

 united and representing two dimerous whorls, sometimes much 

 reduced or absent, valvate or imbricate. Male flower : Stamens 

 generally equal in number and opposite to the sepals, sometimes 

 fewer ; filaments inflexed in the bud or straight ; anthers opening 

 longitudinally; rudiment of ovary present or absent. Female 

 flower : Ovary superior or more or less inferior ; carpels 2, the 

 posterior rarely developed or represented by an empty chamber, 

 generally 1-celled ; ovule solitary, pendulous from the apex of 

 the cell with an upwardly directed micropyle, more rarely basal and 

 erect ; styles 2, or only the anterior one developed, filiform and 

 stigmatose on the inner face, more rarely peltate. Fruit small, an 

 achene, nut or drupe, enveloped by the accrescent perianth or buried 

 in the succulent receptacle ; endosperm present or absent ; embryo 



