TEEMA.] URTICACE&. m 



2. T. politoria, Tlanch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, X, 326 ; Ind. 

 Trees 597 ; F. B. I. F., 484 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2} 362 ; Gamble 

 Man. 631 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 456 ; Prain Beng. PL 960. Sponia 

 politoria llancli. ; Brandis, For. Fl. 430. Vern. Kagshi, kuri 

 (Dehra Dun), Khardd (Saharanpur), jaiin and bdtn (Bijnor).. 

 banJiarria (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. Leave* bifarious, 2-5 in. long, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, semi 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 cynics, usually monoecious. 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. DISTRIB. : 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 5-11-partite, penninerved ; lobes lanceolate, serrate; 

 stipules lateral. Flowers small, dioecious, rarely monoecious ; 

 males in axillary panicled cymes ; females iti axillary racemes ; 

 bracts in females convolute, leafy. MALE flowers. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate. Stamens 5, erect in bud ; filaments filiform, anthers 

 oblong. Pistillode none, FEM. flowers. / erianili hyaline, embrac- 

 ing the base of the ovary. Ovary sessile, of 2 carpels, 1 fertile 

 and 1 sterile, 1-locular ; ovule 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. 



