Tas. 6207. 
NICOTIANA TasacuM, var. FRUTICOSA, 
Introduced from Guinea and the Brazils. 
Nat. Ord. SoLANZCEx,—Tribe CESTRINE”, 
Genus Nicotiana, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f., Gen. Plant., vol. ii., p. 906 ined.). 
Nicotiana Tabacum, var. fruticosa, glutinoso-pubescens, caule erecto robusto sim- 
pliciusculo folioso basi frutescente, foliis sessilibus panduriformi-lanceolatis 
acuminatis semiamplexicaulibus, inferioribus basi auriculatis, marginibus 
basin versus obscure undulatis v, sinuatis, floribus paniculatis pedicellatis, 
bracteis linearibus, calycibus }-3-pollicaribus ovoideis 5-fidis, lobis erectis 
acuminatis, corolla infundibulari pallide rosea limbi 5-fidi lobis triangularibus 
acutis, capsula ovoidea calycem superante, seminibus fere levibus, : 
N, fruticosa, Linn. Sp. Pl, vol. i., p. 258; Lehm. Nicot., p. 23; Dunal in DC, 
Prod., vol, xiii., pars 1, p. 558,. 
Nicotiana foliis lanceolatis acutis, &c., Mill. Gard. Dict.; Figures, t. 185, fig. 1. 
A very little known plant, though introduced into Eng- 
land in the middle of last century, and admirably figured by 
Philip Miller, F.R.S., Gardener to the Apothecaries Company’s 
Botanic Garden at Chelsea, in his fine folio work illustrative 
of “the most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants pub- 
lished in his ‘ Gardener’s Dictionary.’” Miller describes it as 
growing naturally in Guinea, whence he received the seeds, 
and as being cultivated in the Brazils and sent to Europe 
under the name of ‘ Sweet-scented Tobacco.” Dunal, in 
De Candolle’s “ Prodromus,” gives the Cape of Good Hope as 
its native country on the authority of Linnus, where, how- 
ever, no species of the genus has been found in a wild state. 
For my own part I cannot doubt its being a native of South 
America, as are all the Tabacum group, and that it has been 
from thence introduced into Africa and probably elsewhere. 
I regret to say that I do not know whence our Kew plant was 
derived ; it appeared amongst a miscellaneous set of Tobaccos 
grown for exhibition in the Economic House, and is supposed 
to have been sown as Latakia Tobacco from Syria. There are 
in the Kew Herbarium two cultivated specimens named J. 
fruticosa—one no doubt the true plant, from Gouan’s 
JANvARY Ist, 1876, 
