244. Cll, SOLANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Physochlaina, 
9. PHYSOCHLAINA, G. Don. 
Erect, nearly glabrous herbs. Leaves petioled, subentire. Corymb terminal, 
Calyx campanulate, lobes 5 short ; in fruit elongated, overtopping the capsule, 
Corolla elongate ; lobes 5, short, imbricate in bud. Stamens attached at the 
middle of the tube, filaments filiform; anthers ovate, longitudinally dehiscent. 
Ovary 2-celled; style linear, stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule 2-celled ; cir- 
cumsciss above the middle. Seeds very many, compressed ; embryo peripheric. 
—Species 4; Central Asiatic. 
P. prealta, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 4600, in note; leaves ovate-oblong 
sinuate, corymb compound lax viscid-pubescent, corolla 3-1} in., stamens and 
style equalling the corolla or 4 in. longer. Miers IU. S. Amer. Pl. ii. App. 15. 
P. grandiflora, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 4600.  Belenia prealta, Dene. m 
Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 144, t. 190. Hyoscyamus prealtus, Walp. Rep. m. 21. 
Scopolia prealta, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 554. 
N. Kasmir and WsrERN Tirer, alt. 12-15,500 ft., Munro, Thomson, Strachey § 
Winterbottom, &c.—Distri. Kashgar and Yarkand. 
Stems 2-4 ft., corymbose upwards. Leaves 4-6 by 8 in., irregular, base cuneata 
or cordate on the same branch; petiole 1-4 in. Corymb 2-8 in. diam. ; flowers al 
pedicelled ; pedicels 1-13 in. Calyx in flower 4 in.; lobes 4 in., lanceolate ; 1n fruit 
13 by X in, striate. Corolla 11 by 1 in., tubular-funnel-shaped, in the majority of the 
wild examples, sometimes shorter, funnel-shaped ; in some cultivated examples wider, 
subeampanulate. Stamens and style distinctly exserted in nearly all the wild examples: 
Capsule 4 in. diam, Seeds } in. diam., scrobiculate-reticulate. 
10. HYOSCYAMUS, Linn. 
Erect, coarse herbs. Leaves sinuate, toothed, or subpinnatifid. Flowers 
unilateral, sessile or pedicelled, lower axillary solitary, upper forming a dense 
racemose or subscorpioid cyme, upper leaves bract-like. Corolla lurid, yellow 
or greenish purple. Calyx urn-shaped, shortly 5-lobed; in fruit enlarged, 
overtopping the capsule. Corolla funnel-shaped ; limb oblique, 5-fid, lobes 
more or less unequal, imbricate in bud. Stamens attached about the middle o 
the corolla-tube, filaments filiform; anthers exserted or subincluded, oblong, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, stigma subeapitate. 
Capsule completely 2-celled, or nearly so, cireumsciss near the apex. See 
very many, compressed, scrobiculate; embryo peripheric.—Species 9; Euro- 
pean, and extending to Central Asia. 
l. H. niger, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 295 ; cauline leaves sessile ovate 
or oblong sinuate or lobed, flowers subsessile, calyx softly hairy teeth mueronate, 
corolla 1 in. lurid reticulate-nerved. Wall. Cat. 2636, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
ed. Carey & Wall. ii, 237; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 77; Bot. Mag. t 
2394; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 546; Bentl. § Trimen Med. Pl. t. 196. 
H. agrestis, Kitaibel; Sweet Fl. Gard. t. 27. H. persicus, Buhse Reise Trans- 
kauk. 158. 
TEMPERATE WESTERN Hmaraya, alt. 811,000 ft., from Kashmir to Gurwhal ; 
frequent..—Disrnis. Europe, W. & N. Asia. . . 
Pubescent and more or less hairy. Leaves 5 by 2 in. Lower pedicels in fruit 
scarcely 3 in. Calyx in flower 2 in., teeth short, triangular; in fruit 1 by 3 at 
subcontracted in the middle, teeth somewhat rigid. Corolla purple in the base, lim 
lurid green, purple-veined Capsule iin. diam. Seeds 3; in. diam. 
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