187 
~~ ORDER 125. URTICEA. 
Tre NEtTLe TrisBe. Lind. nat. syst. p. 93. 
639. URTICA. v. Monoecia Tetrandria. 
From wrv—to burn; in allusion to the stinging properties of mary of the 
species. Gaert.2. ¢. 119. Lam. ¢. 761. 
1347. U. Inrerrupta. Rox. Flora. 3. p. 585. Batti schoriginam. Rheed. 
Mal. 2. ¢. 40. Boehmeria interrupta. Willd. Spec. 4. p. 342. 
A large, erect, annual plant, with cordate, serrate, leaves; flowers during 
the rains. The whole plant is sprinkled with stinging hairs like the com- 
mon nettle;—grows in waste places. 
1348. U. HereropHytia. Rox. Flora. 3. p. 586. Ana schorinigam. 
Rheed. Mal. 2. ¢. 41. Upalmata. Forskol’s Arabia. p. 159. 
Annual, erect plant; leaves alternate, long petioled; covered with stinging 
hairs.—Grows in various parts of S. Concan. N. 
640. PARIETARIA. v. Pelygamia Monoecia. 
From paries—a wail: in allusion to the place of growth of the species, 
en old walls and among rubbish. Gaert: 2. . 119, Lam. é. 853. 
1349. P. Inpica. Sprengel’s syst. 3. p. 914. 
A small perennial plant; grows about Dapooree. (Dr. Lush.) 
641. CANNABIS. v. Dioecia Tetrandria. 
Probably derived from the Arabic name, Quanab. Gaert. 1. ¢. 75. Tourn. 
¢. 308. Lam. ¢. 814. 
1350. C. Sativa. Rox. Flora. 3. p. 772. C. indica. Rumph. Amb, 5. €. 77. 
Kalengi cansjava. Rheed. Mal. 10. ¢. 60. and Tsjeru cansjava. 10. ¢. Gf, 
Ainslie. Mat. Ind. 2. p. 189. Black well ¢. 322. Lour, Coch. China. 2. p, 616, 
Bhang.—Gunja.—Common Hemp plant: cultivated all over India for the 
sake of the intoxicating liquor called Bhang, which is prepared from it: 
also for the leaves which are smoked to cause intoxication. Its use as a 
cordage plant is hardly known. It has been long cultivated in Russia for 
this sole purpose, and strange to say, England derives all her supplies from 
that Country instead of her own Eastern possessions;—the home of the hemp 
plant.—Alluding to this, Bacon in an Essay notices a trivial prophecy of 
his time, though in his own words it ‘‘ ought te serve but for winter talk by 
the fire side.” 
‘¢ The trivial prophecy which I heard when I was child; and Queen Blige” 
beth was in the flower of her years, was; 
“ When hemp is spun, ay 
England’s done:” 
whereby it was generally conceived, that after the Princes had reigned 
which had the principal letters of that word hemp, (which were Henry, 
Edward, Mary, Philip and Elizabeth) England should come to utter con- 
fusion; which thanks be to God, is varied only in the change of the name, 
for that the King’s style is now no more of England, but of Britain.” 
Should we ever grow our own hemp, may the result be equally favorable! 
642, BOEHMERIA. tL. Monoecia Tetrandria, 
Named after Rudolph, a German Botanist. Lam, t. 763. 
1351. B. Ramirtora? Sprengel’s syst. 3. p, 845. Willd. Spec. 4, p. 312, 
Procris ramiflora. Lam, Ill. ¢.763. Caturus ramiflorus, Linn, Mant, Urtica 
pulcherrima? Rox, ; 
