Talk:De Graer 700 (1936)
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Evidentiary scope
The label describes the plant as a shrub 1.70 metres tall growing in brousse (bush), at Mbunga, in August 1936. It gives the local name Mauzeliba, attributed to the Bamemeli, and under usage indigène (local use) records that the plant was smoked. The locality cannot yet be resolved to a point. The plant grew in bush, with no word of cultivation. The accession is classified Feral, by inference from the label; the label does not say whether the plants descended from a crop. A single gathering does not establish a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
No coordinates are recorded, and the name Mbunga is carried by more than one place in the country, including a village in Kwilu and an administrative area in Mai-Ndombe. Because the label gives nothing that distinguishes them, no georeference is asserted here and the infobox coordinate field is left empty.
Editorial treatment
The wording is De Graer's own and belongs to the period and to the colonial mission context in which he was writing; it is reported here as his record rather than adopted as description. What the note documents is a distinction drawn locally between two smoked plants, with cannabis the less preferred of them on the ground of its aftereffects. The identity of Boko is not established by the sheet.
These notes were moved from the accession article during the article-Talk cleanup of 16 September 2026. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 11:08, 16 September 2026 (+07)