Bright green, nettle-like monœcious herb, up to 4 or 6 ft. high. Leaves alt., ovate, dentate 2-6 in. long, base truncate or slightly cordate, 3-nerved, with appressed stiff hairs on both surfaces; pet. 1-10 in. long; stip, persistent, subulate, ab. ⅓ in. long. Infl. an axillary long-stalked panicle, longer than the leaf, the small clusters bisexual and male on the same panicle, rarely male on separate peduncles. Male fl. calyx 4-5 partite; sta. 4-5; fem. fl. per. 4-partite, 2 segments larger. Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Bongo: Gir); Bahr El Jebel (Madi). 356 =Urera sp.= HINNAT EL ABELAIN (Sennar)—Arab. Shrub, 6-8 ft. high, somewhat like a tall nettle in appearance. Blue Nile Prov. (Sennar); Fung Prov. (Saoleil For., under shade). The branches having large pith cavities are cut and used as rosaries on the West Coast. 357 =Bœhmeria platyphylla= _D. Don._ Shrub, 3-15 ft. high. Leaves mostly opp., broadly ovate, acuminate, cordate, coarsely toothed, 3-9 in. long, sparsely white-hispid above; pet. ½-6 in. long. Spikes axillary, longer than leaves, either simple with male and fem. fl., or branched with male fl. on some branches and both sexes on others. Bahr El Ghazal (Niamniam-land). =var. ugandensis= _Rendle._ Belgian Congo (Niamniam-land: Assika River). 358 =Parietaria debilis= _Forst._ Small, almost translucent herb. Leaves subrotund, ⅓-1½ in. long, base 3-nerved; pet. shorter than blade. Fl. in sessile pairs of cymules in leaf-axils, polygamous, minute. Red Sea Prov. (Erkowit); Darfur Prov. (J. Marra, 9,700 ft.). 359 =Pouzolzia mixta= _Solms._ Monœcious shrub, young branches white-hairy. Leaves alt., ovate, acuminate, ab. 1 in. long, densely hairy above, white-tomentose beneath; pet. under ¼ in. Fl. monœcious clustered in leaf-axils, fem. fl. solitary among the numerous males. Fung Prov. (Fazoghli). 360 =Forskohlea tenacissima= _Linn._ LUSSAQ or NUSSAQ—Arab. Herb, up to 2 ft., woody below, branches with spiny, hooked hairs. Leaves alt. obovate or rhomboid, crenate-serrate, ½-2 in. long, 3-nerved at base, hispid above and white-tomentose below; pet. ½ length of blade. Fl. monœcious embedded in wool within a campanulate involucre. Red Sea Prov. (21° N.L., Sallom); Khartoum Prov. (J. Royan and other rocky hills). The bark yields a strong fibre. =F. viridis= _Ehrenb._ Not unlike above. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, bluntly toothed, ½-4 in. long, only very sparsely hairy. Red Sea Prov. (21° N.L., Khor Tamanib); Khartoum Prov. =CANNABINACEÆ.= 361 =Cannabis sativa= _Linn._ HASHISH, KAMANGA & BANGO—Arab. The common hemp. Upper White Nile Prov.; Bahr El Ghazal Prov.; Mongalla Prov. The cultivation of the hemp plant is forbidden in the Sudan. Such specimens as have been found cultivated surreptitiously in clearings in the forest have been devoid of the resinous excretion characteristic of the official drug. =CELASTRACEÆ.=