Talk:NH0074922, Gillitts (1924)
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Evidentiary scope
The catalogue records the locality Gillitts., the date 11 June 1924, an altitude of 600 m and a collector given only as Indian collector. No image of the label is published, so the label cannot be read, and the catalogue says nothing about how or where the plant grew. The accession is classified Unknown until the label can be read. No conservation priority is assigned.
The Botanical Database of Southern Africa publishes no image of this sheet. Its image count is zero, and so is the image count of all 1,361,966 rows in the database: the store is empty, and SANBI's own site still lists plant images among its plans. The accession carries no image until the herbarium supplies a scan.
Georeferencing
The point -29.875, 30.875 is the one the herbarium database, BODATSA, publishes for this sheet. It is the centre of the quarter-degree square 2930DD, about 27 km across, and not the place the plant was gathered: BODATSA gives its accuracy, 1/4dg, and stores the square's code beside it. Of the 61 georeferenced Cannabis rows in BODATSA, all 41 flagged 1/4dg fall exactly on a square's centre and none of the other 20 does. BODATSA's LatLongChecked field is null on every Cannabis row, so no Cannabis coordinate in BODATSA has been verified by the herbarium. Gillitts, which the label names (OpenStreetMap node 262706600), lies inside the square, 11.2 km from the point. The point is carried at the precision the database gives it. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 19 km.
Editorial treatment
The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium publishes no per-specimen page. Five permalink shapes were tried for a sheet and all answered 404, so the accession cites the database itself and the barcode identifies the sheet.
The catalogue's collector string is Indian collector. House style attributes colonial framing rather than adopting it, so the article quotes the field and says what it is, and the page is titled from the barcode rather than from the string. The person who made this gathering is unnamed in the source and cannot be named here.
Natal's Indian population in 1924 was largely descended from indentured labourers brought to the colony from 1860. That context belongs in prose on Cannabis in South Africa rather than on an accession page, and is noted here only to say why the wording matters.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:19, 24 September 2026 (+07)