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Evidentiary scope
The Sadullahpur slip gives a place, a day and the name Cannabis sativa spontanea. It gives no habitat, no use and no note on cultivation: spontanea is part of the plant's name on the slip, and a name does not say where the plant grew. The accession is classified Other. A single gathering does not establish a landrace or a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.
Label reading
Read twice, independently, from Kew's image of the sheet (7142 × 10248 pixels); the page states only what the two readings agree.
- Master slip, top left, one hand: 4665 Cannabis sativa H Ham. – Sudallapur & HBC. and the lines for lots B to F; pasted beside it 4665 G Napalia 1821 and H Toong Dong 1826. The two readings differ on two words of this slip (the end of the first line, and lot C's name), and the page takes those lines from the Wallich Catalogue Online's printed form instead.
- Slip, lower right, under barcode K001039632: Cannabis sativa spontanea / pencil 4665 / pencil B / Sadullahpur 5 Jany 1809. The first letter of spontanea is cut by the slip's edge.
- Slip, top right: Cannabis sativa ♂ / pencil 4665. and a / Botanical garden 21 Jany 1815. The day is read 21 by one reading and 21 or 27 by the other; McPartland and Small give 21 January 1815.
- Sheet: a printed box 4665.A; pencil 4665. Hb. Ham.; pencil a and B beside the two stems.
Georeferencing
The point 25.39, 89.47 is the town of Sadullapur in Gaibandha District, OpenStreetMap node 2481961866, the seat of Sadullapur Upazila. The identification rests on the Wallich Catalogue Online, whose place record gives Hamilton's Sadullapur (also Sadullapore and Sudallapur) the modern name Sadullahpur, in Bangladesh, and on Hamilton's itinerary: he was surveying the Rangpur district, to which Sadullapur's police station then belonged, and Edinburgh holds his sheets from Pirganj on 8 January and Rangpur on 25 January 1809. Other places of the name exist, in Pabna (Bangladesh), Dakshin Dinajpur and Malda (West Bengal), Raebareli (Uttar Pradesh) and Kaimur (Bihar); none is tied to Hamilton by any source read. The point places the gathering at the town, not at a spot near it. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 5 km.
Editorial treatment
Title. The title follows the live Wallich lots, Wallich 4665E (by 1832) and Wallich 4665F (by 1832): Wallich's name, the entry number and the lot letter. The year is the Sadullahpur slip's, 1809; the live lots E and F carry no date and take (by 1832).
One page for lot A. The lot joins two gatherings, Sadullahpur in January 1809 and the Calcutta botanic garden in January 1815, as the list's Sudallapur & HBC says. A garden plant tells nothing about where cannabis grew, so the garden stem has no page of its own. The page's fields are the Sadullahpur gathering's; the catalogue number is K001039632, the barcode over the Sadullahpur slip, and K001039631, on the same sheet, is named in the lead.
Collector. The list's H Ham. is Francis Buchanan, who took the name Hamilton in 1818; the collector field takes his double name, as the wiki's page on him does.
Classification. The slip's spontanea is kept as part of the name. It may record that the plant grew without being sown, but the slip does not say so in a habitat line, and the class is not moved on a name.
Place. The locality field takes the slip's spelling. The province and district fields are those of the town the Wallich Catalogue Online identifies, in today's Bangladesh.
Source discrepancies
- McPartland and Small (2020, supplementary list) place the lot's Sudallapur in two different states of India, Uttar Pradesh (Kanpur) in one list and Karnataka (Mysore) in another. Neither agrees with the Wallich Catalogue Online's Bangladesh, and neither gives a reason; neither is used.
- Another of Hamilton's labels, for entry 1272 of the list, reads Sadullapore, Janry 1808, a year earlier than this slip. Whether Hamilton passed the place in two Januaries is not known; this slip's year is used as read.
Sources not yet read
- Hamilton's report on the Rangpur district (Montgomery Martin's The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India, vol. 3, 1838), which may describe the hemp of the Sadullapur area, was not read for this page.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 04:58, 16 October 2026 (+07)