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ON GUNJAH, OR INDIAN HEMP. 
The taste is very bitter and disagreeable. To one who is 
familiar with the structure of plants, it is at once evident 
that the article under consideration is composed of the 
stems of some climbing, twining plant, possessed of the 
habit of the Rhus radicans, which has been collected and 
prepared in the way described, to resemble sarsaparilla. 
As it is stated to come from Texas, it most probably has 
been collected in the forests of that country. 
ART. LVIII.-SOME ACCOUNT OF GUNJAH, OR INDIAN 
HEMP AND ITS PREPARATIONS. 
By Augustine Duhamel. 
{Read at the Pharmaceutical Meeting, November 6, 1843.) 
Cannabis Indica — Indian Hemp. 
Botanical Description. — Cannabis Sativa. Lindley's 
Flora Medica, p. 299. This plant, considered identical 
with the Indica, is dioicious, annual, about three feet high, 
covered over with a fine pubescence : stem erect, branched, 
bright-green, angular : leaves, alternate or opposite, on 
long weak petioles ; digitate, scabrous, with linear, lanceo- 
late, sharply serrated leaflets, tapering into a long smooth 
entire point ; stipules subulate ; clusters of flowers axillary 
with subulate bractes ; males lax and drooping, branched 
and leafless at base; females erect, simple and leafy at the 
base. Calyx downy, five-parted, imbricated; stamens five ; 
anthers large and pendulous. Calyx covered with brown 
glands. Ovary roundish, with pendulous ovule, and two 
