TaB. 7652. 
NICOTIANA sytvestris, 
Native of Argentina, 
Nat. Ord. Sonaneac%.—Tribe CesTRINEx. 
Genus Nicotiana, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 906.) 
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Nicotiana sylvestris; herba eiata, robusta, foliosa, ramosa, glanduloso- 
puberula, foliis pedalibus amplis omnibus basi cordatis semi-amplexi- 
caulibus lyrato-obovatis-oblongisve obtusis v. cuspidatis costa crassa, 
nervis patalis subtus prominulis, inflorescentia subcapitata, e cymis— 
brevibus fasciculatis multifloris subsessilibus composita, floribus breve 
icellatis nutantibus, calyce ovoideo 5-fido basi rotundato, lobis tubo 
revioribus erectis inzqualibus lanceolatis ovatis v. triangularibus, 
corolla alba tubo gracili 3-pollicari tereti glanduloso-puberulo medium 
versus paulo inflato, limbi 14 poll. lati lobis triangularibus obtusiusculis 
patenti-recurvis, filamentis medio tubi insertis filiformibus glabris, 
antheris vix exsertis oblongis, capsula corolla paulo longiore. 
N. sylvestris, Spegaz. et Comes in Gartenflora (1898) p. 180, fig. 38. 
Nicotiana sylvestr's belongs to the group of tall her- 
baceous species that abound in South America, but 
amongst which I find none with the characters above 
described. In foliage it closely resembles NV. tomentosa, 
Ruiz & Pav., figured at tab. 7252 of this work, but in 
inflorescence and flowers it entirely differs. a8 
N. sylvestris is a native of the Province of Salta, a — 
country of lofty mountains with fertile valleys, on the 
confines of Bolivia, in lat. 26° S., where it grows at an 
elevation of 5000 to 6000 feet above the sea. Seeds were 
received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. 
Dammann & Co. of Naples, in 1898, plants raised from 
which flowered in the herbaceous collection in August of 
the same year. 
Descr.—A tall, stout, branching, closely leafy, glandular- 
puberulous herb, five feet high. Leaves a foot long and 
upwards, lyrate-obovate from a cordate semi-amplexicaul 
base two inches broad, cuspidate, upper part six inches 
broad, dark green above, paler beneath, midrib very stout, 
and spreading nerves prominent beneath. Inflorescence 
terminal, peduncled, almost hemispheric, formed of sub- 
May Ist, 1899. 
