- Datura. ] CIL SOLANACER. (C. B. Clarke.) 243 
Linnea, 1833, Litt. 141; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 174.—Rheede Hort. Mal. 
|. 2,128; Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 87, fig. 2. 
Throughout Inpia; in waste places, a weed.—Distrin, Malaya, Tropical Africa. 
In America said to be not a native. 
Generally resembling D. Stramonium ; but the flowers are usually larger. Calyx 
attaining 3 in. Corolla 7 in. and 5 in. diam. across the mouth. Capsule 1} in. diam., 
subglobose, equally spinous on all sides. " 
Van. alba ; flowers white or nearly so. D. alba, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 
73; Wight Ic. t. 852; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 642; Dale. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 
174. D. Metel, Rorb. Fl. Ind. i. 561; Wall. Cat. 2639, not of Linn. — RumpA. Herb. 
Amb, v. t. 87, fig. 1. "Throughout India. — Distrib. of D. fastuosa. . 
Van. ?dubia ; fruit without spines. D. dubia, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 474. D. 
. Hummatu, var. a dubia, Bernh. in Linnea, 1833, Littl. 141. D. Nilhummatu, Dunal 
in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 542.—Rheede Hort, Mal. ii. tt. 29, 33.— W. Deccan’ Penin- 
| sua?—This species is founded on the figures of Rheede, which represent possibly one 
of the foreign smooth-fruited species, none of which are wild in India; hence 
Bernhard appended Rheede's plant as a var. of a species which is always spinous so 
far as known. 
3. D. Metel, Linn.; Bernh. in Linn. 1833, Litt. 143; leaves ovate entire 
or deeply toothed pubescent, corolla whitish urple downwards limb 10-toothed, 
capsule nodding. Bot, Mag. t. 1440; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 543.— 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 243, 
W. Hiwarava and Mrs. of W. Dmccaw PxwiwsvLA; introduced ?—Distrim. 
Tropical America; widely naturalised in the Old World. 
8. SCOPOLIA, Jac. 
Erect, glabrescent herbs. Leaves entire. Pedicels axillary, solitary. Flowers 
lurid, nodding. Calyx large, campanulate, subtruncate or shortly lobed ; m 
t enlarged, overtopping the capsule. Corolla widely campanulate, plaited ; 
obes short, scarcely imbricate. Stamens 5, attached near the base of the 
corolla; filaments filiform, somewhat dilated near the base ; anthers ovate, 
ehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sub-2-celled ; style linear, stigma thic! 
ila Capsule globose, circumsciss above the middle. Seeds many, renis 
prm, granulate; embryo peripheric.—Species 3; 1 European, 1 Japanese, 
S. lurida, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 555; leaves large petioled 
qo Me-lanceolate, corolla wide distinctlv lobed, fruit-calyx large reticulated 
Fr b very shortly lobed. Physalis stramonifolia, Wall. Cat. 2632, and in Row A 
77 In ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 242. Nicandra anomala, Link. $ Otto fei . 
Gt 35. Anisodus luridans, Link & Otto in note, l.c.; Nees in Trans. ann 
“Avil 72; Miers IU. S, Amer. Pl. ii., App. 18, t. 78. A. stramonifolius, 
ong ^ Loud. Hort. Brit. 61. Whitleya stramonifolia, Sweet Brit. Fi. 
ard. t. 195 ` 
Tr TRL Himaraya ; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, near Ging, alt. 5000 ft., Dr. 
eutler, 
Branches 3 6 ft. « , 24 . hen young later puberulous 
-6 ft., sparingly divided ; rusty-tomentose when young, aver P. ` 
P , Leaves 8 by 3 in. acute at both ends, ultimately glabrate ; ee d 
; duneles 1 in. Calyx in flower 2 in, in fruit attaining 2 by 1} in.; eve 
tef uar Corolla ii by $ in., lurid yellow or greenish purple. Ovary np 
€ top 1-celled, Capsule $ in., lid 1-celled, remainder 2-celled. Seeds 
