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Evidentiary scope
The catalogue gives a collector, a number, a date and a locality. It is a single gathering and shows neither a continuing population nor a living germplasm holding, so it supports neither a landrace nor a feral classification. The accession is classified Other. No conservation priority is assigned.
The Botanical Database of Southern Africa publishes no image of this sheet. Its image count is zero, and so is the image count of all 1,361,966 rows in the database: the store is empty, and SANBI's own site still lists plant images among its plans. The accession carries no image until the herbarium supplies a scan.
Georeferencing
The coordinate is the centre of a quarter-degree square, not a field fix. BODATSA records the accuracy as 1/4dg and stores the square's code alongside it; a quarter-degree square is about 27 km across. Of the 61 georeferenced Cannabis rows in BODATSA, all 41 flagged 1/4dg fall exactly on a square's centre and none of the other 20 does. On Éloïse's ruling of 23 September 2026 the point is carried, at the precision the database gives it, with the accuracy stated here. BODATSA's LatLongChecked field is null on every Cannabis row, so no coordinate in this batch has been verified by the herbarium.
The square is 2931CC.
Editorial treatment
The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium publishes no per-specimen page. Five permalink shapes were tried for a sheet of this batch and all answered 404, so the accession cites the database itself and the barcode identifies the sheet.
A second Forbes gathering of 1921, at the Compton Herbarium (NBG), carries the Zulu name Insangu in its locality field and is a separate accession. The catalogues give no initials for that one and Forbes, H. for it against Forbes, H.M.L. here, so whether the two are one collector is not settled.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:19, 24 September 2026 (+07)