Humulus.} cxxxvi. URTICACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 487 



sepals, erect in bud. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Sepal, a membranous scale. 

 Ovary sessile, compressed ; styles 2, " subulate ; ovule pendulous, cam- 

 pylotropous. Fruit an ovoid spike' of imbricating bracts in the axils of 

 which are 2 flattened achenes each enclosed in its sepal. Albumen scanty 

 or ; embryo a flat helix. Species one Chinese and Japanese, and the 

 following. 



H. LUPULUS, Linn. Sp. PL 1028; bracts and bracteoles scarious covered 

 with resinous glands. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 29 ; SentL # Trim. Med. PL 

 iv. 230 ; Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. xii. t. 656. 



NOETH-WEST HIMALAYA, cultivated. Native of N. America, and perhaps of 

 N. Asia. 



RootstocJc stout, branched ; stems tall, scabrid or prickly with reversed bristles. 

 Leaves 3-4 in. diam., petioled, cordate, toothed, upper ovate, lower 3-5-lobed. 

 Male fl. % in. diam. ; panicles 3-5 in. across. Fern, heads % in. diain., yellow ; styles 

 purple ; fruiting 1| in. diam., scales orbicular. The Hop. 



6. CANNABXS, Tournef. 



A tall erect annual herb. Leaves alternate or the lower opposite, upper 

 1-3- lower 5-11-partite, serrate, palmatinerved ; stipules lateral. Flowers 

 small, axillary, dioecious, males fascicled in short pendulous panicles ; fern, 

 crowded under leafy convolute bracts. MALE FL. Sepals 5, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, erect in bud. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Perianth hyaline, 

 embracing the ovary or C. Ovary sessile ; style central, arms 2 filiform 

 caducous; ovule pendulous. AcTiene compressed, crustaceous. Seed flat- 

 tened, albumen unilateral fleshy ; embryo curved, cotyledons broad thick 

 subequal, radicle upcurved incumbent. 



C. sativa, Linn. Sp. PL 1027; Eoxb. FL Ind. iii. 772; Grab. Cat. 

 Bomb. PI. 187 ; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 30 ; SentL $ Trim. Med. PL iv. 

 231 ; Eeichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 655 ; Wall. Cat. 4665. C. indica, Lamb. 

 Encycl. i. 695. Elieede Hort. Hal. x. 60, 61. 



Throughout INDIA; wild in theN.-W. Himalaya, cultivated elsewhere. DISTRIB. 

 Central Asia, wild ; cultivated injtemp. and trop. regions. 



Stem 4-8 ft., strict, subsimple. Leaves 4-8 in. diam. Flowers green. Hemp; 

 produces cordage, and Bhang or Kief. 



7. PSEUDOSTREBLUS, 



Unarmed glabrous trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, penninerved ; 

 stipules small, lateral, caducous. Flowers monoecious, axillary, males in 

 short cymes, fern. 4-bracteolate, solitary in different axils, or solitary in the 

 male cyme. MA.LE FL. Sepals 5, orbicular, imbricate. Stamens 5, inflexed 

 in bud. Pistillode small, linear. FEM. FL. Sepals 4, orbicular, concave, 

 embracing the ovary. Ovary subglobose ; style terminal, arms 2 filiform 

 subequal; ovule pendulous. Fruit (unripe) enclosed in the enlarged 

 perianth. Species 3, Eastern Indian and Malayan. 



P. indica, Sureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 220 ; leaves elliptic oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate acuminate base acute, nerves very many parallel 

 nearly horizontal and anastomosing. Epicarpurus, No. 8, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 H.f. if I. 



