Warrington s.n., Ostindien (s.d.)
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| Warrington bhang sample, East Indies (undated) | |
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| Warrington s.n., Ostindien (s.d.) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Swedish Museum of Natural History |
| Catalogue Number | S08-18704 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa var. indica |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Warrington s.n., Ostindien is an accession of leaves and capsules of Cannabis sativa labelled as Bang or Subjee, that is, bhang, and placed in Ostindien, Swedish for the East Indies. The Swedish Museum of Natural History holds it as S08-18704 under the name Warrington. It is undated.[1][2]
The label
The museum's catalogue transcribes the label as Ostindien / Blad och kapslar. Bang l. Subjee, Swedish for "East Indies / Leaves and capsules. Bang or subjee".[1] Its English note describes the material as leaves and seed pods. The catalogue names Warrington as the collector, with no number or date, and for place it gives only the continent, Asia.[1][2]
Bang and subjee
The Pharmacopoeia of India of 1868 gave Bang, Subjee or Sidhee as the names of the third of the three forms in which, it says, Indian hemp was met with in India, the larger leaves and capsules without the stalks.[3] The label pairs two of those names with the same parts of the plant.
The museum holds a second sample under Warrington's name, Warrington s.n., Calcutta (s.d.), a fruiting head labelled Gunjah, pr. Calcutta, whose label says that Mr Warrington presented it.
Specimen and identification
The catalogue gives the determination as Cannabis sativa var. indica and lists no image of the sample.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Specimen S08-18704: Cannabis sativa L." Herbarium Catalogue (S). Swedish Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 11 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Occurrence 1096663903: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 11 October 2026.
- ↑ Waring, Edward John (1868). Pharmacopoeia of India. London: W. H. Allen for the India Office. p. 216 – via Internet Archive.