202 REPORT OF THE INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION, 1893-94. [APP

                                              Analysis of Charas.

Seeds in ganja.-Samples of ganja contain variable amounts of seeds, or, properly speak-
ing, fruits. A fresh sample of "sadai" ganja from Co:mbatore contained a large number
of ripe fruits, and as it was said to afford commercial ganja, I carefully dried some of it in
the sun, and separated the seed3 from the other vegetable structures. The seeds weighed
53.5 per cent, of the dried sample, but if such a sample had been manufactured by being
rolled or flattened out before it was dry, many of the seeds would have been lost. Some of
the commercial samples of bhang contained much seed, notwithstanding the opinion that
bhang is the produce of the male plant. The specimen of Hyderabad bhang, when cleaned,
yielded 44 per cent, of seeds, with some stones and other impurities. In the case of a simi-
larly impure specimen from Surat, the drug, after the larger stones had been "removed, was
powdered up with the seeds and other impurities. The analysis of such a sample shows an
increase in the ether extract due to the oil, and an increase in the mineral matter due to the
sand, and is far from uniform with the other specimens. Twelve commercial samples of
Ganjam ganja, very different in appearance, were found to contain from 5.1 to 38.7 per cent.
of seeds, or an average of 20 per cent. As the seeds contain 25 per cent. of fixed oil, five
parts of the ether extract obtained from an average sample of such ganja, without removing
the seeds, would consist of oil. In preparing samples of ganja and bhang for analysis the,
seeds that fell out in breaking up the drug were rejected altogether, and I do not think
that, in the foregoing tables of analysis, more than a very small proportion of the resinous
extract consisted of oil from the seeds.

Composition of the seeds.—The cleaned seeds, separated from the Hyderabad bhang were
reduced to fine powder, and analysed with the following results