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Evidentiary scope
This is a sample of plant material rather than a field gathering: Kew's catalogue names a donor and a donor year, and no collector, no collection date and no place finer than Kashmir. It documents broken hemp leaves from Kashmir that had reached Kew by 1876. The catalogue gives no habitat, no note on cultivation and no use, so the accession is classified Other; no conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
No point is given. The geography line reads Kashmir and names no place within it, so Kashmir is the finest place named. The name is ambiguous between areas of very different size, and the catalogue does not say which is meant: the Kashmir Valley, about 15,900 km² (Wikidata Q2361576), and the wider Kashmir region, about 222,000 km² (Wikidata Q43100); in 1876 the name was also used for the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, a historical unit. Even the smallest of these is larger than a district, and the entry names no settlement or district within it.
Editorial treatment
Country. The country field gives India, Kew's ISO country coding for the object. Kew's help page notes that country names changed since the 1980s may not have been updated in the database. The catalogue entry names no place finer than Kashmir, a region now divided between India, Pakistan and China, so there is no finer place to resolve a present-day country against. The province field is left empty for the same reason.
The donor date is not a collection date. 1876 is the year the leaves were given to Kew, with no month or day. It is used only as the latest date the gathering can be from, which the title gives; the collection date stays empty.
Donor, not collector. Aitchison Dr is in Kew's donor field, which its help page uses for specimens that passed through a second person or institution, so the collector field is empty. The help page also says the two fields are not used consistently. Kew records personal names as surname and initials; this entry gives a title in place of initials. The donor is not further identified.
The label source. The notes field reads Label source: Canni* Indica leaves 109??, with two spaces between its parts as Kew prints it; the page quotes it with single spaces. The asterisk and the question marks are reproduced as printed and not read. The label's name carries the epithet Indica, where Kew files the object under Cannabis sativa. The infobox gives Kew's filing; the label's name is quoted in the article. The catalogue does not explain the number 109??.
Collection method. The field gives Herbarium specimen, the value for a preserved specimen, as on the other Kew Economic Botany accessions; GBIF publishes the object as a preserved specimen. It is a sample of dried leaves stored in a container (storage Bottles, boxes etc), not a pressed sheet.
Image. Kew publishes two photographs of the object through GBIF under CC BY 4.0: the leaves alone, used here, and the leaves beside a tag reading 43407 and a centimetre rule. Both show small rounded pieces among the leaf fragments. The catalogue names only leaves, so the article describes the pieces without identifying them.
A second object from the same donor. Kew gives the same donor, Aitchison Dr, and the same place, Kashmir, for a rope, EBC 43413, as used in Kashmir, with no donor date and a label-source date of 2.10.1875. Neither entry says whether the two objects came to Kew together.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 18:27, 14 October 2026 (+07)