Indica

Indica (or indicum) means "of India", or "Indian", in Latin and is applied to things connected with India:

* The specific epithets "indica" and "indicum" are used in binomial nomenclature to indicate species (or subspecies) of plants, animals etc thought to originate in, or associated with, India.
** Examples of such species are "Mangifera indica" (mango), "Juniperus indica" (black juniper), "Azadirachta indica" (neem), and "Lagerstroemia indica" (crape myrtle).
** Indica is a long-grain variety of rice ("Oryza sativa" subsp. "indica"), as opposed to the short-grain Japonica ("O. sativa" subsp. "japonica").
** Another example of a botanic subspecies is "Cannabis sativa" subsp. "indica" (a type of marijuana, considered to be a separate species, "Cannabis indica", by some authorities).
* Tata Indica is the name of a car sold by the Indian company TATA Motors.
* Indica (Megasthenes), the title of Megasthenes' account of his travels in South Asia as ambassador in Chandragupta Maurya's court.
* Indica is the title of Arrian's account of Nearchus' voyage from India after Alexander the Great's conquest.
* Indica is the Latinized title of Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī's "Ta'rikh al-Hind" ("Chronicles of India").

Other meanings of Indica apparently lacking a direct connection with India include:

* Indica Gallery was a London art gallery in the 1960s. Set up by John Dunbar, Barry Miles and Peter Asher, it was the place where John Lennon and Yoko Ono met.
* Indica Records is a Quebec record label.
* Indica is a solo project from Eliad Grundland, the man behind the Israeli psychedelic trance group Space Buddha.
* Indica is a pop/rock band from Finland.
* Indica is an electro-psychedellic band from Argentina.