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gradually from base to summit, not narrowed at throat, 12 mm. long, with lobes 
short and rountlish.—A West Indian species, reported as introduced in Tom Green 
County (Tweedy). 
2, ©. Parqui L’Her. <A very fetid more or less cinereous shrub: leaves narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, green on both sides or pale beneath: flowers subsessile in a 
crowded terminal panicle of spicate racemes: corollayellow. (C. multinervinnn Wat- 
son Proc. Am. Acad, 18, 128.)—A South American species, cultivated in wari coun- 
tries, and apparently spontaneous at San Antonio (Palmer), 
10. NICOTIANA Tourn. (ToBACcCcoO.) 
Rank acrid-nareotic mostly clammy-pubescent herbs (one arboreseent), 
with ample leaves, racemed or panicled flowers, tubular-bell-shaped 
o-cleft calyx, funnelform or salverform corolla usually with along tube 
and 5-lobed plaited border, capitate stigma, 2-celled pod 2 to 4-valved 
from the apex, and numerous minute seeds. 
* Leaves undulate-crisped or repand or fiddle-shaped, all the upper more or less clasping : 
corolla-tube almost filiform, 3.5 to 6.5 cm. long: filaments very short: flowers loosely 
racemose. 
1. N. plumbaginifolia Viv. Somewhat scabrous-pubescent or glabrate: cauline 
leaves sessile and with partly clasping base, undulate and sometimes even crisped: 
lowest oblong or obovate-spatulate ; the others oblong-lanceolate and acuminate, 
above passing into linear-subulate bracts: corolla greenish-white, less than 5em, 
long; lobes 4 to Gmm. long, acute.—-Damp grounds around Matamoras, and proba- 
bly on the Texan side also, 
2, N.repanda Willd. Minutely pubescent or glabrate above, with open racemose 
or somewhat paniculate naked inflorescence: leaves thin (7.5 to 15 cm,) long, and 2.5 
to 10cm. wide), ovate, or the lower obovate and sometimes fiddle-shaped, commonly 
repand; lowest contracted into a winged petiole; upper deeply cordate-clasping : 
bracts minute or often wanting: corolla with tube frequently 5e¢m. long, the spread- 
ing limb white, or tinged with rose, 14 to 25min. broad, its lobes short and obtuse or 
acutish.—Low erounds, common from San Antonio to Devil’s River. 
* * Leaves entire, or the margins sometimes obscurely undulate: filaments slender. 
3. N. trigonophylla Dunal. Viscid-pubescent, simple or virgately branched: leaves 
all sessile or only the lower tapering into a winged petiole, and obovate-oblong ; 
upper oblong-lanceolate with a broader cordate half-clasping base, or some spatulate- 
lanceolate with a dilated auriculate-clasping base, 2.5 to 10cm, long: inflorescence at 
length loosely paniculate-racemose: corolla greenish-white or yellowish, about 18mm, 
long, somewhat pubescent, the sinuately-lobed limb about 8mm. broad.—Southern 
and western Texas. 
4. N. Glauca Graham. Arborescent, soft-woody below, glaucous and glabrous: 
leaves long-petioled, ovate and subcordate, entire or repand: flowers loosely panicu- 
late: corolla greenish becoming yellow, 2.5 to 5em. long, tubular, contracted at 
throat, and with erect 5-crenate limb not longer than the orifice.—Native of South 
America, naturalized in southern Texas and frequently cultivated. ‘‘Coneton” and 
“tronadora” of the Mexicans, 
11. PETUNIA Juss. 
Viscid herbs, with entire leaves, scattered flowers becoming lateral, 
5-parted calyx, 5 perfect but conspicuously unequal stamens (4 being 
didynamous and the fifth smaller) inserted low down on the funnel- 
form or salverform corolla and included, distinct anther-cells, a tleshy 
