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sion that the wild and spontaneous growth of which mention is made is due to the
germination of seed which has fallen by chance in favourable situations. There
is no indication that the plant is inclined to run wild in this region.
Central India.
78. Mr. Gunion has collated the information furnished in the official memo-
randa from the States of the Central India Agency,
and these have not been forwarded, with the exception
of a memorandum of the Minister to His Highness the Maharaja Holkar. Mr.
Gunion reports that "there appears to be no spontaneous growth of the hemp
plant in Central India." The Minister says that "here and there a plant may be
seen by road or river side or near the huts of fakirs, etc., due to the dropping of
the hemp seed by consumers." There is no reason, except perhaps the some-
what greater prevalence of cultivation, why the accidental growth should be more
common in the States of the Central India Agency than in those of Rajputana.
It may safely be assumed that there is no material difference between the two
Agencies in this respect.
Hyderabad.
79. The official memorandum by the Director of Agriculture and Commerce
of the Hyderabad State reports no wild growth.
The spontaneous growth, if it does exist, is not
plentiful, and is only such as may be found all over India springing up directly
in exceptionally favourable situations from seed accidentally sown.
Baroda.
80. The official report on the use of hemp drugs in the Baroda State by
Anant Gangadhar Khoti states that "wild ganja is
not to be found in this part of the country. It is
neither cultivated nor does it grow spontaneously in
any part of His Highness's Dominions;" and again "in none of the districts of
this State does the hemp plant grow spontaneously." There may possibly be some
confusion in the mind of the reporter as to the wild ganja plant being specifically
distinct from that which is usually cultivated, for there is some small extent of
cultivation in the State. But it may be safely inferred that the hemp plant has
nowhere run wild, even if a chance plant may occasionally be found.
Kashmir.
81. Information regarding Kashmir is derived from memoranda by the Gov-
ernors of Kashmir and Jammu and Muhammad
Hayat Khan, Member of the Kashmir State Council.
According to the last-named authority, the spontaneous growth in Jammu resem-
bles in its character and the localities it affects the growth in the plains of the
Punjab. He does not appear, however, to have any very exact idea of the latter
growth; for he places many localities on the same footing, in some of which the
growth is common, and in others scanty or even wanting. This much may be
gathered, however, with tolerable certainty, that the growth in Jammu is not so
abundant as in the more elevated tract of Kashmir. The tract of profuse growth
in Kashmir mentioned by Muhammad Hayat Khan is Kashmir proper, extending
from Baramula to Verinag and Shopayan. The country lying between Adham-
pur and Banhal in the Jammu province, as well as the jagirs of Bhaddarwah
and Poonch, have also an abundant growth.
Two kinds of wild growth in
Kashmir proper.
82. The memorandum of the Kashmir Governor mentions two kinds of wild
growth which appear to have somewhat distinct
characters. The growth called talia consists of the
female plant, and is found in the Anantnag district and the Nagam tahsil of the