SOLANACEJE. XVI. Nicotiana. 
Dwarf Tobacco. Fl. June. Clt. 1823. Pl. 1 foot. 
33 N., murrIVA'Lvis (Lindl. bot. reg. t. 1057.) clothed with 
viscid hairs or down; leaves fleshy, ovate-lanceolate: lower 
ones petiolate; flowers axillary, solitary ; calyx many-parted ; 
capsule many-celled ; segments of corolla obtuse, deeply veined. 
©. H. This species is cultivated by the Indians, who inhabit 
the banks of the Columbia, for tobacco; for which purpose the 
calyx, which is very fetid, is selected in preference to any other 
part. Calyx inflated, ribbed. Corolla ventricose at the base ; 
limb spreading, usually 6-cleft. Stamens equal in number to 
the segments of the corolla. 
Many-valved-capsuled Tobacco. 
Pl. 2 feet. 
Fl. Aug. Sept. Clt. 1826. 
T Species not sufficiently known. 
: 94 N. crispa (Cav. descr. p. 105.) leaves lanceolate-linear, 
curled, villous, clammy, petiolate; panicles dichotomous. ©. 
H. Native of North America, about San Blas. Stem slender, 
hard, villous. Branches alternate, forked at top. Leaves 
shorter than in N. angustifolia, undulated. Calyx villous. Tube 
of corolla 5 inches long; limb small. 
Curled-leaved Tobacco. Pl. 
35 N. ALA' TA (Link et Otto, abbild. p. 63.) stem erect, glan- 
dularly pilose; leaves oblong and lanceolate, repandly-toothed, 
scabrous, glandularly ciliated ; teeth of calyx long, acute; tube 
of corolla very long; segments obtuse. ©. H. Native of 
Brazil. 
Winged Tobacco. Fl. Aug. Oct. Cit. 1829. Pl. 2 feet? 
36 N. rENELLA (Cav. descr. p. 105.) stem herbaceous, 
filiform ; leaves sessile, acute: radical and lower ones ovate: 
superior ones lanceolate. ©. H. Native of Mexico, about 
Acapulco. Stem solitary, simple. Radical leaves 2 inches 
long, and 1 inch broad. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedicellate, 
distant. Tube of corolla slender, 14 inch long; segments of 
the limb acute. 
Slender Tobacco. Pl. 1 foot. 
37 N. FonsrE nr (Roem, et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 323.) leaves 
lanceolate, subpetiolate, stem-clasping; flowers acute; stem 
shrubby. 5.G. Native of the South Sea Islands. N. fruti- 
cosa, Forst. floral. insul, austr. prod. p. 17. Lehm. nicot. 
Ole 
Forster's Tobacco. Shrub. 
38 N. minima (Molina. voy. du. chili. p. 153. ed. 2d. p. 
281.) leaves sessile, ovate; flowers obtuse. ©.?H. Native 
of Chili. Leaves very like those of Dictámnus Crética. 
Least Tobacco. PI. small. 
39 N. nucósa (Mill. dict. no. 7.) leaves ovate, rugose, petio- 
late. ©. H. Native country unknown. Nicotiana minor 
foliis rugosioribus amplioribus, Vaill. Stem tall. Leaves like 
those of N. macrophylla, but twice their size, deeper green, and 
on longer petioles. Flowers larger than in N. rástica, but the 
form is the same. Perhaps only a variety of N. rústica. 
Wrinkled-leaved Tobacco. PI. 4 feet. 
40 N. siLENorpzs (Hort. Prince, Salm. Dyck. Dum. Cours. 
ed. 2d. suppl. p. 148. Perhaps the same as N. suavéolens. 
Catchfly-like Tobacco. Pl. ? 
N.B. The following names are given in Loud. hort. brit. 
suppl. p. 594, of which we know nothing; they are probably 
only varieties of N. Tábacum. 1. N. Nepalénsis, Link et 
Otto. 2. N. Brasiliénsis, Link et Otto. 3. N. petiolàta, 
Agardh. 4. N. sanguínea, Link et Otto. 
Cult. Most of the kinds of Tobacco are showy when in 
blossom, and some of them answer well for decorating flower- 
borders, particularly the white flowered species. The seeds 
of all require to be reared on a hot-bed- in spring, and 
when the plants are grown with 2 or 3 leaves, they should 
XVII. Sarrantuus. 
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be planted separately into small pots, and placed again in the 
frame ; and about the end of May those which are intended for 
the flower border should be planted out in conspicuous situa- 
tions, and those intended for leaves in rows 3 feet distant, with 
the balls entire. 
XVII. SAIRA'NTHUS (from cato, sairo, to clean; and 
avoc, anthos, a flower; with reference to the ringent corolla 
which separates this genus from Nicotiana.) Nicotiana gluti- 
nósa, Lin. 
Lin. syst. Didyndmia, Angiospérma. Calyx campanulately 
ventricose, sub-bilabiate ; limb 5-cleft, with linear-lanceolate, 
acutish, unequal segments. Corolla somewhat funnel-shaped, 
twice as long as the calyx; tube ventricose above, a little 
curved ; limb 5-lobed, rather ringent, spreading a little; lobes 
ovate, acutish, nearly equal. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube, 
exserted a little, unequal, directed all to one side of the flower; 
filaments filiform, dilated and downy at the base.  Anthers 
dehiscing lengthwise inside. Style curved at top. Stigma capi- 
tately thickened, green. Capsule roundish-ovate, acute, covered 
by the permanent calyx, and hardly exceeding it, 2-celled, 2- 
valved; valves at length bipartible at top. Placentas free, 
remote from the dissepiment. Seeds very minute, oblong, an- 
gular, verrucosely warted.—An erect, branched, villously clammy 
herb. Leaves petiolate, ovate-cordate, acuminated. Racemes 
terminal, erect, secund. Corollas rose-coloured, clothed with 
clammy hairs outside. 
1. S. crurindsus; ©. H. Native of Peru, in temperate 
places near Guancabamba, and elsewhere in South America. 
Nicotiana glutindsa, Lin spec. 259. Andr. bot. rep. 484. Ruiz. 
et Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 16. Lehm. nicot. 32. N. militàris, Lin. 
act. holm. 1753. vol. 15. p. 44. t. 2. Tabacus viridis, Moench. 
meth. p. 448. The whole plant is clammy and villous. 
Clammy Sairanthus. Fl. July, Sept. €lt. 1759. Pl. 2 to 
4 feet. 
Cult. For culture and propagation see Petünia below. 
XVIII. LEHMA'NNIA (named in honour of Professor 
John George Christian Lehmann, of Hamburgh; author of 
Aperifolie nucifere, and Generis Nicotianarum Historia, and 
many other botanical papers.) Spreng. anleit. ed. 2d. 1817. 1. 
p. 458. Nicotiana species, Ruiz. et Pav. 
Lin. syst.  Pentándria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-cleft, bila- 
biate ; segments nearly equal, spreading. Corolla irregular; 
with a very narrow incurved tube, which exceeds the calyx a 
little; throat thickened; limb campanulate, with acute seg- 
ments. Genitals exserted, recurved. Capsule ovate, half co- 
vered by the calyx. Seeds angular, wrinkled.—An erect, 
woody, rather clammy shrub, divided into many angular branch- 
es. Leaves scattered, lanceolate, decurrent, acute, quite entire, 
white, with purple veins. Panicles large, diffuse, clammy, vil- 
lous. Corolla glabrous, purple. 
1 L. romenrosa (Spreng, 1l. c.) h.G. Native of Peru, in 
corn fields, and in waste places. Nicotiana tomentósa, Ruiz. et 
Pav. fl. per. 2. p. 16. t. 129. f. a. Poir. suppl. 4, p. 94. 
Tomentose Lehmannia. Shrub 15 to 20 feet. 
Cult. For culture and propagation see Petinia below. 
XIX. PETU'NIA (Petun or Petum is the name of tobacco 
in Brazil; the name is given to this genus on account of its 
affinity with Nicotiana.) Juss. in ann. mus. 2. p. 215. t. 47. 
f. 2. Pers. ench. 1. p. 218. Sweet, fl. gard. 119.— Nicotiàna 
species of authors. 
Lin. syst. — Pentándria, Monogynia. Calyx deeply 5-cleft; 
segments oblong, subspatulate. Corolla salver-shaped, with a 
cylindrical tube, which is a little widened at top, and a spread- 
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