Nicotiana. | XCI, SULANACEE (WRIGHT). 259 
10, NICOTIANA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 906. 
Calyx ovoid or tubular-campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla funnel- or salver- 
shaped; tube long, cylindrical or slightly ventricose; limb equal or 
oblique; lobes 5, induplicate, patent. Stamens 5, inserted below the 
middle of the corolla-tube, included or exserted, more or less unequal ; 
filaments filiform; anthers ovoid or oblong, deeply 2-lobed; cells 
parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2- (rarely 4-00-) celled ; style 
filiform ; stigma dilated, shortly and widely 2-lobed; ovules numerous. 
Capsule 2- (rarely 4-) celled, dehiscing to the middle or lower by 2-fid 
valves. Seeds numerous, small, scarcely compressed, granular; embryo 
straight or more or less curved, cotyledons semiterete.— Herbs or under- 
shrubs, rarely subarborescent, usually with glutinous hairs. Leaves 
Simple, entire or sinuate. Flowers white, yellow, greenish or pink, in 
terminal panicles or long unilateral bracteate or ebracteate racemes, 
rarely solitary and axillary. 
Species about 40, in extra-tropical North and South America, Australia, and the 
Pacific Islands. 
Upper leaves sessile, Corolla-lobes acute . : = i: LPabacun, 
Upper leaves petioled. Corolla-lobes obtuse ;° - 2. N. rustica. 
1. N. Tabacum, Zinn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1,180. A robust annual, up 
to 6 ft. high. Stem erect, viscid. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, the lower 
up to 2 ft. long and shortly petioled, the upper much smaller, sessile 
and more or less amplexicaul, entire, acute, sometimes undulate, viscid 
on both surfaces. Panicle terminal. Calyx ovoid, viscid outside, 
divided nearly halfway down ; lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla 
pink, white or pale yellow, viscid outside; tube obconic; lobes 5, 
patent, short, broadly triangular, acute. Stamens inserted near the 
ase of the corolla-tube, usually included. Ovary ovoid; style about 
as long as the stamens. Capsule conic, acute or acuminate, as long as 
the calyx or slightly longer.—Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 557, incl. var. 
macrophylla; Lehm. Hist. Nicot. 21; Oliver in Trans, Linn. Soc. xxix. 
119; Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 231; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 
276; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 356; J. Br.& K. Schum. in Mitth. Deutsch. 
Schutzgeb. ii. (1889) 173; Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 30; Bentl. 
«& Trim. Med. PI. t. 191; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 754; Comes, 
Monogr. Nicot. 7, fig. 1; C. H. Wright in Dyer, FI. Cap. iv. u. 119. 
4. macrophylla, Spreng. Ind. Hort. Hal. 1807, 45; Lehm. l.c. 19. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, also cultivated from the sea to 
Borgu, Barter, 1345! Sierra Leone: Freetown, Johnston, 72! Togo, Braun. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Keren, Steudner, 723! Abyssinia, Schimper, 1412! 
Kordofan : Obeid, Pfund, 33! Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2355! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Welwitsch, 6044! 6045! Curror ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Unyamwezi ; Mininga, Speke f Grant, 
185! Kilimanjaro, Marungu, Volkens, 2234! British Central Africa : Shire 
Valley, Melier! Mashona gardens on the Kitoro or Kitolo River, Baines! 
Also in South Africa, and South America from Bolivia and Paraguay south- 
wards, 
* Called in some 8 or 9 languages, Tabba.” Barter. “ Phodia,” Meller. 
