256 XCI. SOLANACE& (WRIGHT). | Datura. 
8. DATURA, Linn.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 901. 
Calyx long, tubular, 5-fid or spathaceous, often persistent at the 
base. Corolla funnel-shaped; limb plicate ; lobes 5-10, short, broad, 
often acuminate. Stamens 5, inserted near the base of the corolla-tube, 
included ; anthers linear, dehiscing longitudinally, sometimes cohering 
into a tube. Ovary 2-celled, or more or less spuriously 4-celled; style 
filiform, dilated and 2-lamellate at the apex. Capsule smooth or spiny, 
dehiscing by 4 valves or irregularly.—Herbs, shrubs or trees, glabrous 
or sparingly hairy. Leaves alternate, entire or coarsely toothed. 
Flowers solitary, large, white, pinkish or yellow, erect or cernuous. 
Species about 12, widely dispersed through the temperate and warmer regions of 
toth hemispheres. 
Capsule cernuous, spiny, dehiscing irregularly. 
Plant pubescent. Corolla 10-toothed : pele D 
Plant glabrous or nearly so. Corolla 5-6-toothed . 2. D. fastuosa. 
Capsule erect, 4-valved. 
Capsule smooth 3 é : ‘ : : . 8. D. inermis. 
Capsule spiny 4. D. Stramonium. 
1. D. Metel, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 179. Stem erect, 3-4 ft. high, 
herbaceous, terete, subdichotomous, densely pubescent. Leaves solitary 
or the upper geminate, ovate, entire or repand-dentate, up to 8 in, long 
and 4 in. broad, densely pubescent on both surfaces, generally glandular. 
Flowers axillary, shortly pedicellate, at first erect, finally cernuous. 
Calyx tubular, 3 in. long, slightly pubescent; teeth 5, unequal, 
triangular-oblong. Corolla white, nearly twice as long as the calyx; 
limb 10-toothed. Filaments glabrous; anthers erect, white. Ovary 
muricate. Capsule globose, pendulous, spiny, dehiscing irregularly.— 
Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 543; Bot. Mag. t. 1440; Sendt. in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. x. 162; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 276. D. guayaquilensis, 
H.B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 8; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, 
t. 380. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Boivin! Sierra Leone: Regent, Scott-Elliot , 
4107! French Guinea: Fuarana, by the River Niger, Scott-Elliot, 5387! 
Wile Land. Soudan: Khartoum, Petherick! Kordofan, Pfund, 285! 
Darfur, Pfund, 46! British East Africa: Nairobi, Elliot, 82 ! 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics ; probably originally from South Tropical America. 
2. D. fastuosa, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, 932. Annual. Stem erect, 
4-5 ft. high, branched, dark purple with scattered white spots. Leaves 
up to 8 in. long and 2 in. broad, the upper sometimes geminate, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, sinuate or repand-dentate, unequal at the base, 
glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers erect. Calyx tubular, 2 in. long; teeth 
5, triangular-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla white inside, violet outside, 
5-6-plicate, folds long-cuspidate. Anthers linear, purplish. Capsule sp!2y; 
pendulous, dehiscing irregularly.— Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 542; Wight, 
Ic. t. 1396; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 276; Sendtn. in Mart. FI. Bras. 
x. 162; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 242 ;Peters, Reise Mos- 
