F G C 368, Fort Napier (s.d.)
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| Herbarium gathering at Fort Napier labelled hemp or dagga and used as tobacco, undated | |
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| F G C 368, Fort Napier (s.d.) | |
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| The sheet held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as E01459340 (CC BY-SA 2.5, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Location | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province/State | KwaZulu-Natal |
| Locality | Fort Napier |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Collector | F G C |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
| Catalogue Number | E01459340 |
| Collector Number | 368 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa L. |
F G C 368, Fort Napier is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Fort Napier in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by F G C. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh holds the sheet as E01459340.[1][2] Its printed label glosses the plant Hemp ( dagga ) and records the use used as tobacco.
The label
The sheet carries a printed ruled form, filled in by hand. Its lines read: No. 368, Edit. L.C.; Species Cannabis sativa followed by the female sign; English Name Hemp ( dagga ); Order Urticaceae; Locality Fort Napier; Remarks used as tobacco; Collector F G C; Date Nov 15; No. 368. A pencilled 368 sits above the form.[2]
The recorded use
The remarks line reads used as tobacco. That is a use statement written on the sheet by whoever filled in the form, and it is one of three recorded uses in the South African batch, alongside the medicinal and smoking note on Mayr 116 and the fibre and pipe objects at Kew. The English name given, Hemp ( dagga ), is the only place in the batch where a sheet glosses the plant with the Afrikaans word.[2]
Fort Napier
Fort Napier was the British garrison at Pietermaritzburg, established in 1843 and held by imperial troops until 1914.[2]
What the catalogue holds
Edinburgh's catalogue records no collector, number, date or country for this sheet. It files it under the region Southern Africa and nothing more. Every value this accession carries was read from the digitised sheet in September 2026, and the reading is what the accession rests on.[1]
Specimen and identification
The determination on the sheet is Cannabis sativa, in the order Urticaceae, and the plant is marked female.[2]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cannabis sativa L., E01459340". Herbarium catalogue. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Digitised sheet E01459340". RBGE IIIF image service. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 23 September 2026.