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The key taxonomic contribution of a historical source.
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States that ''Cannabis indica'' "has been reduced to ''C. sativa'', the Indian plant being viewed as but an Asiatic condition of that species"; cited by Small and Cronquist (1976) among early authors who gave the intoxicant plants no separate formal rank +
The author separates ''bangha'' from ''gangah'' by leaf and seed; the editor's note of 1905 identifies both as preparations of one plant, ''Cannabis indica'' (or ''sativa''). +
Both drug lists identify their entry as ''Cannabis Indica''. The list of the plants of Kuch Behar gives "Indian hemp" as a name for ''san'' (''Crotolaria juncea''), sunn hemp. +
B
Ernest Small's 1975 article on the species question in American cannabis law +
C
Earliest detailed European ethnography of cannabis use among the Khoikhoi; records pre-colonial use predating Dutch settlement +
Earliest detailed European eyewitness account of cannabis preparations and use in India +
E
Defines ganja as "the dried flowering tops of the female hemp plant (''Cannabis sativa'')". +
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P
Prints the Madras Inspector-General of Hospitals' statement of 1872 that ''Cannabis indica'' is identical with the ''Cannabis sativa'' cultivated in Europe, and Watt's account (1889) of the reduction of ''C. indica'' to ''C. sativa''. Two of its Bengal papers of 1871–1872 call ganja the male plant, which Kerr's report, printed in the same return, corrects. +
Enters the drug plant of India as ''Cannabis sativa'' Linn., while its two preparations keep the name ''Cannabis Indica'' +
R
Treats Indian hemp (Cannabis sativa var. indica) and fibre hemp as one plant with no botanical characters to separate them; describes the khasia plants of the Bengal cultivators as barren females +
Records the Bengal cultivators' terminology carried into the colonial-cannabis literature through Watt 1889 and the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission: ''mardá'' and ''mádi'' for the two sexes, in the reverse of their botanical sense; ''khásiá'' for the plants that never flower; and the flat/round/''chur'' product-grade distinction +
S
Records the Santal vernacular ''gã̄jã'' for ''[[Cannabis sativa]]'' within a glossary matching some 300 medicinal plants to Linnaean binomials +
Proposes the identification of the Egyptian plant name ''šmšmt'' with hemp, ''[[Cannabis sativa]]'' +