PIOECIA. PENTANDRIA. 1779-1784 



dexxteria. Leaves ovale, acute: flowers racemed. 



Eaft Indies, *&*/. Mah 4->. 56. P/«i.«». /. 339./. Tl 



l62i 



acid a, 



scandens. 



C eh si a. 



eleracea. 



fsra. 



cannahlna. Acnida. 



Leaves obovate.- fpikes folitary 



E*ft Indies, Ret%. oh. 5. f. 30 n. 87 



Leaves palmate, fa-rate: ftem climbing. 

 China. Lour, Coohincb- 617. 



1779- VILLARIA. Calyx 5-parted: petals 5.J 

 Fern. %/.? 1; &rry 3-celkd: feeds folitary. 



1780. IRESINE. Calyx 2-leaved: petals 5. 

 Male. Nectary 5 fcales, between the (lamina. 

 Fern. Stigmata i, feffile: ^jj/«& with downy feeds. 



I refine. 



1 Welt Indies. Sloan. Jam. 1. 142. /*£. 90/ 

 Stems weak, with knotty joints: leaves ovate, entire, glabrom: 

 flowers in iQofe terminal panicles. 



1781. SPINACIA. Male. C*/v* 5-parted; corol o. 

 Fern. Ctf/y* 4- cleft: corol o: /#/« 4: /#</ 1, within 



the hardened calyx. Spinach. 



Fruit feffile, unarmed or prickly. 



i?/tff£. /. 49. Park, for ad. /. 497./. 4. 



Fruit peduncled. 



Siberia. GW/. &'£. 3. 86. ». 67./. j6, 



1782. ACNIDA. Male. Cqlyx 5 -leaved; c^/o. 

 Fern. G*#w 2 -leaved: wr*/ o: styles 5: feed i, covered 



with the fucculent calyx. 



Virginian hemp. 



Jtavia. 



Virginia. Leaver linear -lanceolate, entire, alternate: racemes 

 axillary, naked, lax, erect. 



1783. CANNABIS. Male. Calyx 5 - parted : corol o. 

 fern. Calyx i-leafed,entire, gaping on the fide: corol 0: 

 ftyles 2: nut i 2-valved, within the doled calyx. 



Cannabis. Hemp. 



India. Blackiv. t. 322. Mill.fy. t. 77. 



Stem branched, hairy: leaves in finger-like divifions, flender, fer- 

 rate, hairy: male- (lowers folitary, axillary; females in pendulou 8 

 terminal fpikes. ' ' 



