 Hyoseyamus.] CH. SOLANACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 245 
= 2. H, pusillus, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 294 ; cauline leaves petioled 
ovate or oblong sinuate or lobed, flowers subsessile, calyx striate glabrescent 
teeth lanceolate mucronate, corolla 4-3 in. not reticulate. Dunal in DC. 
Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 550 ; Jaub. & Spach Ill. v. t. 414. 
" Western Tret; Ladak; alt. 10,000 ft., Thomson,—Distrs, From Egypt to 
Persia and the Altai. . 
, About a foot high, pubescent, somewhat viscid. Leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in., very 
regularly lobed or subentire; petiole 3-14 in. Lower pedicels in fruit sometimes 
| nearly } in., usually very short. Calyr 4 in.; in fruit }-1 in., funnel-shaped, ribbed, 
, Somewhat reticulated, glabrous or sparsely viscid pubescent, teeth } in., almost 
| Prickly, patent. Corolla yellow, purple in the base. Capsule 4 in. Seeds even 
- smaller than in 7. niger. ^ 
3. H, muticus, Linn. Mant. 45; cauline leaves petioled ovate or oblong 
, entire or toothed, lower flowers pedicelled, calyx striate pubescent teeth short 
triangular not acute in fruit, corolla 1-14 in. lurid yellow or nearly white. 
Jab. § Spach Il. v. t. 415; Boiss, Fl. Orient. iv. 293. H. Datora, 
Forsk. Fl Æg.-Arab. 45. H., betæfolius, Lamk. Dict. iii. 399. H. insanus, 
Stocks in Hook, Kew Journ. iv. 178. H I. angulatus, Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 412, 
Scopolia mutica, Datora and Bovena, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 552, 553. 
West PounsaB ; Thomson, SciNDE; Stocks.—Distrin. Cabul, westwards to Egypt. 
1-3 ft. Leaves 4-7 in., pubescent or somewhat woolly ; petiole 1—3 in. 
- Lower pedicels in fruit 1-lin. Calyx 2 in. ; in fruit 1 by j in., funnel-shaped, ribbed, 
Somewhat reticulate, villous or ultimately glabrous; teeth short-trlangular, not 
| "Pmading. Capsule } in. diam. Seeds À in. diam. 
10°. NICOTIANA, Linn. 
Erect, viscidly- ubescent, herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves entire or sinuate. 
Panicles terminal, or racemes com ound, subterminal. Calyx ovoid or tubular, 
Lfd. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, induplicate in bud. Stamens attached 
m the lower part of the corolla-tube, filaments filiform; anthers ovate, dehis- 
. Ung. longitu inally. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, stigma shortly 2-fid. 
e^ 2-, rarely sub-4-, celled, Y-valved to the middle, valves often again 
splitting, Seeds very many, small, scarcely compressed ; embryo nearly straight. 
Pecies 35; American, Australian, and Polynesian. 
qiu, M. Taba nn. ; m. Fruct. i. 264, t. 55; leaves large 
oblong or elliptic base’ connate artn, compound ultimate branches short, 
qa teeth triangular-lanceolate, corolla linear-funnel-shaped, capsule tin, 
lii Il. t, 113; Wall. Cat. 2645; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 76; ne ; 
t n 166 bis; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. i. 557 ; Bentl. & Trimen Med. FH. 
Throughout Ixpia, cultivated.—Drstrm. Native in America; cultivated in all 
Countries, . 
Tobacco, though cultivated in nearly every village in Bengal, shows d tena 
às a weed. In Cochin China and the Moluccas, Louveirs and Kump 
SAY it has been known from a remote period. 
2 w | | ii, pti, 563; leaves 
* rustica, Linn.: Dunal in DC. Prodr. xii. pt. 1, bo 
1 , ; i . btuse 
corolla e Obtuse or cordate, panicle close, calyx-teeth tri 1626, fig. 1. 
cylindric campanulate, berry 4 in. Reich Ic. Fil, Germ. t. 
PUT cultivated, Falconer, —Dısrrır. Native of Mexico; cultivated in 
Asia, Africa, and America. 
