Herbarium ; and the other, from the St. Petersburg Botanic 
Garden, has slender petioles, a character ascribed to the 
species by Dunal, but at variance with Miller’s figure and 
description and with our plants, Miller describes it as 
annual, growing four or five fect high ; but our plant, being 
in a cool house, has survived the last and will, I think, sur- 
vive this winter. JV. fruticosa differs from NV. Tabacum only in 
the shrubby base of its stem and its narrower leaves, and 
I think, as Linneeus did, it is a variety of the common 
Tobacco, which it resembles in habit and inflorescence. The 
type specimen in the Linnean Herbarium, however, ap- 
proaches the ordinary form of WV. Tabacum more closely 
than either the present plant or that figured by Miller. 
It flowered in September in a cool greenhouse, the plant 
being two feet high. 
Duscr. Stem two feet high and upwards, clammily pubes- 
cent, as is the whole plant, stout, erect, simple, woody at the 
base. Leaves a foot long and under, sessile, panduriform- 
lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, the upper semiamplexicaul, 
the lower auricled at the base, margins slightly waved, chiefly 
towards the base. Flowers in terminal panicles, pedicelled, 
inclined ; bracts linear. Calyx ovoid, 5-cleft, one-third to 
two-thirds of an inch long, lobes acuminate. Corolla-tube 
twice as long as the calyx; limb one to one and a quarter 
inch broad, pale rose-coloured; lobes broad, acute. Capsule 
exceeding the calyx, ovoid. Seeds minute, very obscurely 
reticulate.—J. D. ZH. 
Fig. 1, Corolla laid open ; 2, pistil :—doth magnified. 
