Tap. 7202. 
NICOTIANA tomentosa. 
- Native of Peru. 
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Nat. Ord. Sonanacrx.—Tribe CrstrInEa. 
Genus Nicotiana, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 907.) 
Nicotiana (Lehmannia) tomentosa; elata, ramosa, glanduloso-pubescens; 
foliis amplis obovato-oblongis acuminatis in petiolum latum basi 
amplexicaulem attenuatis, floribus in paniculas amplas laxe ramosas 
dispositis, calycis tubo terete cylindraceo lobis subulatis obtusis, corolla 
basi tubulosa superne oblique gibboso-campanulata, lobis ovatis obtusis 
patentibns, staminibus longe exsertis, ovario glaberrimo, stigmate 2-lobo. 
N. tomentosa, Ruiz & Pav, Fl. Peruv, et Chil. vol. ii. p. 16, t. 129, f. a. 
Leumannra tomentosa, Spreng. Anleit. zur Kentn. Gew. ed. ii. 1817, 
458 ; Don. Gen. Syst. 467; Dunal in DC. Prod. vol. xiii. pt. i. p. 572. 
N. colossea, FH. André in Rev. Hortic. 1888, p. 511, and 1891, p. 75 and 290; 
F. Abel in Wiener Illustr. Gartenz. 1890, p. 72 and 472, fig. 92; Godefroy 
Lebeuf in Le Jardin, 1889, p. 274, cum Ic.; Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. 1. 
p. 84, f. 25. 
The history of the introduction of this giant Nicotiana 
is, as given by M. André in the Revue Horticole, as follows. 
‘In the first rank amongst new foliage plants exhibited 
at the Trocadéro in 1889, must be placed N. colossea. 
Its history is sufficiently remarkable. Some years ago I 
sold to Madame D. de Saint-Germain-les-Corbells some 
fine plants of Brazilian Orchids. The gardener, M. 
Mason, one of the most able cultivators that I am 
acquainted with, took the precaution of placing in the 
propagation house the detritus and dust removed from 
them during the cleaning of specimens. From this he 
raised various plants, and amongst others Nicotiana 
colossea.” 
In an article in the Le Jardin, from the pen of M. 
Godefroy Lebceuf, the plant has in France attained the 
stature of ten feet, and its leaves of three feet three inches 
and a breadth of twenty. The latter are described as 
being of a violet red colour when young, passing eventu- 
SerremBenr Ist, 1892, 
