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NICOTIANA* persica 



Shiraz Tobacco. 





PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Solanex Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 231.) 



NICOTIANA.— Supra, vol. 10. fol. 833. 



N. persica ; foliis radicalibus oblongo-spatulatis caulinis sessilibus semi- 

 amplexicaulibus acuminatis, calycibus acute 5-fidis, tubo corolla? hypo- 

 crateriformis gracili clavato, fauce ventricosa, limbi laciniis ovatis emargi- 

 natis subinsequalibus. 



Caulis sesquipedalis , viscido-pubescens, erectus, subratnosus. Folia radi- 

 calia spatulata, oblonga, acuta, basi cordata; caulina sessilia, multb minora, 

 semiamplexicaulia, vix repanda. Flores racemosi, extra axillares, noctu l ^ vtter 

 odorati, brevius pedicellati. Calyx oblongus, corolld ad minimum quadruplb 

 brevior ; dentibus angustissimis acuminatis. Corolla hypocrateriformis ; tubo 

 1\uncias longo, viridi, apice in fauce ventricoso; limbo ext'ds viridi, intus 

 albo, patente, paulultLm obliquo, laciniis ovatis, obtusis, apice canahculatis f 

 sapius emarginatis. 



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We are happy to have the opportunity of laying before 

 our readers a genuine figure and description of the plant 

 which produces the far-famed Tobacco of Shiraz : the com- 

 mon Virginian tobacco is also cultivated in Persia ; but this 

 it is from which the finest quality is manufactured, fceeds 

 of it were brought from Persia by Sir Henry Willock upon 

 his return from his late residence at the court of Ispahan, 

 and communicated to the Horticultural Society, in whose 

 Garden it blossomed in September and October last. 



It is rather a handsome annual, exhaling a faint but 

 pleasant odour in 

 are in perfection. 



the evening 



hich time 



flowers 



In Persia it grows 3 or 4 feet high 







France 





